In Mouans-Sartoux, in the hills above Cannes, a 1980s villa was carefully deconstructed and rebuilt, preserving its original structure. Marcoux Mathern & Associés, led by architect and project partner Pierre-Guillaume Mathern, directed the transformation of the three-hectare estate and completed the renovation in 2025.

The house, a 1929 saltbox-style Colonial in Westchester, New York, grew over decades with new additions. Its floor plan became a maze of separate, closed-off rooms. Archi-Tectonics undertook a full renovation and partial rebuild to open the space into connected, light-filled areas.

Right in the center of Piacenza, a nineteenth-century palazzo has been converted into a roomy 300-square-metre apartment designed for modern family living. These rooms, once meant for formal events, are now home to a young entrepreneur, his three kids, and their Labrador. Architects Cinzia Russo and Fabio Inzani, who started La Casa di Babette, wanted to make the building’s history feel welcoming and comfortable.

MC House follows Brutalist architecture, and its interiors build on the story the building already tells. InHouse Arquitetura combined architecture, interiors, and landscape, adding new features that feel like they have always belonged.

Esplendido Townhouse is an approved adaptive reuse project of a historic home composed of two connected houses in central Lequile, near Lecce. The design will fully renovate the building, preserving its original features, including vaulted rooms, uneven masonry, patterned cement-tile floors, timber doors and windows, a courtyard, and the classic roof.

On a narrow street in Toronto’s Harbord Village, an old Victorian home had a foundation that was too damaged to repair. Rather than patching up the existing structure, the team decided the best solution was to remove the house and rebuild it from the ground up.

In a multilevel home tucked into Kitchener, Ontario, a heavy, mahogany-dark interior has given way to something altogether lighter. Architecture studio Reigo & Bauer has reworked the residence from the ground up, threading sculptural, hand-finished details through every level. The result feels less like a renovation and more like a quiet correction, bringing a home back in line with how its owners actually want to live.

Downtown Calgary is full of towers built for a different era of work — deep floorplates, private corner offices, and a hierarchy baked into the architecture itself. At 701 Fifth Avenue Place, AltaGas has spent the past project cycle proving that a legacy building doesn't have to mean a limited one.

In Rome's Quartiere delle Vittorie, a residential neighbourhood raised in the optimism of the 1920s, an apartment has just undergone a transformation that refuses to choose sides between old and new. Rather than stripping away the past to make room for contemporary living, the renovation treats history as raw material — something to be exposed, reclaimed, and woven directly into daily life.

Where the Pacific wind scours the dune grass and fog settles low over weathered rooftops, a new house has taken its place along the shore as though it had always belonged there. The northern Oregon Coast is a landscape defined by extremes — wild, shifting topography set against a modest, storm-hardened architectural tradition — and few new structures manage to hold their own against it. The Dune House does exactly that. It does not compete with its surroundings; it settles in