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The Architecture Edit: 10 striking houses we couldn't take our eyes off in February
From a house on steel stilts to a glass reinterpretation of a Ukrainian hut, these are the residential buildings that captured our imaginations this month
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Coastal House is perfectly set into the contours of its Australian landscape
Located in sunny Ocean Grove, a new residence designed by Splinter Society boasts a soothing design as laidback as its seaside address
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The Ball-Eastaway House – a climate-responsive residence in the Australian bush – is on the market
The corrugated iron ‘bush house’ was designed in 1983 by Glenn Murcutt as the home and studios of artists Sydney Ball and Lynne Eastaway
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Tour this Flemish house, a designer’s own haven, anchored to life and landscape
A new Flemish house by architect Pascal Bilquin and interior designer Julie Thiers expands the living experience from its carefully curated interiors to the green Belgian countryside
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Explore this Oregon house, designed for both rest and play against a wooded backdrop
Bend Hideaway, a new home by Feldman Architecture, is designed as a couple's private escape and a hub for their active lifestyle
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This magnificent California house has a backstory as moving as its architecture
Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel of the San Francisco-based firm SAW helped a local couple design their dream house in Portola Valley, California. They didn't anticipate that it would change them forever
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Peel away a north London cottage façade to discover a private sanctuary rooted in culture
A cottage in Muswell Hill gets a fresh extension by Collective Works, which worked closely with the clients to create a dream private sanctuary
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Lautner’s Castle is a midcentury Los Angeles gem refreshed for the 21st century
Conner + Perry Architects restore Lautner’s Castle, a modernist house by the 20th-century master, dating from the early 1980s – take a look around
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A triplex apartment in Central London blends highly crafted materials with expansive spaces
The Apartment Arabescato by Grafted is an impressive extension of a Fitzrovia flat, a showcase for craft, space and material
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The Kappe House, one of LA’s most significant midcentury modern houses, is on the market
The architect Ray Kappe completed his own house in 1967. Owned by the Kappe family until 2025, the Pacific Palisades residence has now gone on the market for the first time. We take a tour
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Three Ukrainian guesthouses in a meadow blend the vernacular with modern amenities
YOD Group has completed the Reed Roof Guesthouses in central Ukraine, self-contained structures designed as a retreat from the harsh realities of everyday life
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This refreshed Costa Rica house is tuned to water, wildlife and ritual
Greg Kahn Melitonov and Ines Guzman have renovated a 15-year-old property in Punta Islita – infusing a cheerful ‘contenta’ personality through touches of colour and design
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This New York apartment is a spatial puzzle, with details that satisfyingly slot into place
Surprisingly spacious, this one-bedroom New York apartment is an ode to the building’s warehouse history and perfectly precise joinery, which is satisfying to look at (and use)
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An architect-designed Paris apartment with modernist roots hits the market
A recently renovated 11th arrondissement apartment showcases Cyrus Ardalan’s minimal, industrial-leaning design with plywood and glass-paste details and an open, light-filled layout
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This green retreat in Paraguay hits all the right notes
Inspired by lush natural surroundings and jazz’s boundless creativity, Equipo de Arquitectura’s new indoor-outdoor house is a playful riff on tropical architecture
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A new house by Denizen Works provides far-reaching views across Japan’s Seto Inland Sea
The architects have designed a coastal bolthole and studio space in south-west Japan for clients seeking a return to nature
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This modern Utrecht house by Mart van Schijndel could be yours
A rare chance to live inside one of the Netherlands’ most radical modernist homes, preserved in meticulous detail by its longtime custodian
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An immersive Nova Scotia house is a viewing platform for rugged Canadian nature
East River Residence by architect Omar Gandhi opens up to the drama of the surrounding landscape, drawing nature in
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Tour an architect’s minimalist home built around a living, breathing courtyard
In a former Australian mining town, architect Stephen Collier finally found the perfect plot to design a home of 'moving parts'.
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The Japanese house offers lessons in living for everyone
A new book, ‘A House in Japan: Lessons in Living’, brings together over 40 contemporary projects that showcase the rich diversity of the country’s housing design
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A minimalist Spanish house has an industrial heart – step inside Casa Guadalupe
Designed by architects Hanghar in Asturias, the prefabricated home bridges contemporary aesthetic ambition while remaining firmly rooted in its context
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This Dulwich home, an accomplished example of British modernism, could be yours
Six Pillars is a Grade II*-listed architectural gem, designed in the 1930s and later restored. Now listed for £3.2 million, it remains a key example of early British modernism
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Indoor-outdoor living becomes a reality at this leafy Hampstead home
A home that becomes a nature-viewing experience, Panoramic House by architecture studio Mata, is a finely crafted addition to a London family's daily life
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A spectacular Rudolph Schindler residence is back on the market for $2.5 million
The Los Angeles house, perched in the Hollywood Hills, even has a swimming pool rumoured to have been designed by Richard Neutra
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A home true to its name, Serene brings minimalist calm to London’s Queens Park
This textured, new-build home by Coeus London was created to foster a sense of ‘slowing down’ and a connection with nature in the heart of the city
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This Canada Water penthouse’s natural warmth belies its industrial setting
The penthouse of The Founding development in London, by Conran and Partners, brings rich tactility to a raw setting
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Inspired by a Japanese phrase, this Dulwich house unfolds like a paper puzzle of light and layers
For this Dulwich house, architects ConForm were inspired by ‘komorebi’, a Japanese expression describing the uplifting feeling of dappled sunlight through leaves
