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Leibal — NOT A HOTEL Setouchi

NOT A HOTEL Setouchi is a minimalist villa compound located on Sagishima Island, Hiroshima, Japan, designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). Few architectural commissions demand the kind of site-specific surrender that island building requires. On Sagishima, a small landmass in…
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Leibal — Atami House

Atami House is a minimalist residence located in Atami, Japan, designed by NOFORMA. The renovation of a traditional Japanese home perched on a coastal hillside, the project began with a discovery that redirected its entire design narrative. Hidden above a…
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Marc Thorpe’s Forest Edge House Blends Beauty and Self Sufficiency

There is no mistaking the core philosophy of the Forest Edge House, a 1,500-square-foot home nestled into the woods of the western Catskill Mountains. On the southern face of the house, a grid of solar panels absorbs the slanting rays…
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Heion House

Heion House is a minimalist residence located in Islington, London, United Kingdom, designed by Studio Hagen Hall. Rather than extending the footprint of a Grade-II Listed Late-Georgian terrace, Studio Hagen Hall reconfigured it entirely. The brief called for a home…
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In Trace, Bureau de Change Lets Circularity Cement Memory in Cast Concrete

New builds boast a certain architectural bravado, often from a place of hubris, when realized from scratch—a clean slate’s seductive promise that the future need not answer to the past. Bureau de Change would argue the opposite. With Trace, their…
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Lulla House

Lulla House is a minimalist residence located in Kamakura, Japan, designed by I IN. Positioned directly on the beachfront in Kamakura, this three-storey weekend house doubles as both a private retreat and the home of its owner’s fashion brand. I…
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Amangiri Unveils Its First Six-Bedroom Villa in Utah’s Canyon Country

Branded residences have become the luxury hotel industry’s favorite revenue strategy. Most of these projects share a familiar formula—take a glass tower in a growing luxury market, attach a name that travelers recognize, furnish it to a standard that photographs…
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Leibal — Casa GA

Casa GA is a minimalist residence located in Gazzo Bigarello, Italy, designed by Archiplan Studio. The Po Valley has long been defined by an architecture of plainness – farm buildings, granaries, and rural shelters reduced to their most essential geometric…
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The Trim House by KWK Promes Splits the Difference

When KWK Promes was invited to submit a concept for a house in Vilnius, Lithuania, the parameters might have sounded like an architect’s dream: Here was a private client selecting a firm via competition to envision a home on a…
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Ravi Raj Restores a Century-Old Croton-on-Hudson Residence

The stone houses of Westchester’s early 20th-century neighborhoods carry a particular material candor – their masonry is pulled from the same geological bed as the landscape around them, their permanence a direct expression of the region’s character. Ravi Raj’s renovation…
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Concrete House

Concrete House is a minimalist villa located in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by Welten Eliëns Architecten with interiors by Niels Maier. The project draws on a specific and often underexplored strain of European modernism – the material vocabulary of 1970s brutalism…
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Walmart’s BEST KEPT SECRET: 10 Affordable Tiny Homes You Can Buy Online (Starting at $14,999!)

Walmart sells tiny homes… and most people have no idea.No contractors. No bidding wars. Just click, buy, and get it delivered. In today’s video, we’re uncovering Walmart’s best kept secret — 10 affordable tiny homes you can actually buy online…
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What It Was Really Living at the Hotel Chelsea

Step inside the legendary Hotel Chelsea through the eyes of its doorman, historian, and guide. From its bohemian past to its iconic hallways, discover how this New York landmark became a hub for artists, musicians, and writers. #HotelChelsea #NYC #ArchitecturalDigest…
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An Architect’s Own Home Hidden Inside a Secret Garden (House Tour)

An architect’s own home hidden inside a secret garden unfolds as a deeply personal exploration of living in close connection with nature, set within the quiet seclusion of Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles. Conceived as both refuge and reflection, the…
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This Garden Apartment Treats Architecture as Aperture

Architecture, when reframed, is about space rather than walls; it does not enclose, but reveals. The Garden Apartment by ArandaLasch, reimagines the domestic interior as a calibrated aperture: a sequence of frames, thresholds, and volumes that attune everyday life to…
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Leibal — Lakeshore Barn House

Lakeshore Barn House is a minimalist residence located in Northern Zealand, Denmark, designed by Norm Architects. The barn as architectural archetype carries a particular kind of honesty – its form determined entirely by function, its proportions shaped by necessity rather…
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Leibal — Mozart House

Mozart House is a minimalist residential extension located in London, United Kingdom, designed by Studio DERA. Few architectural briefs carry the weight of Mozart House. The Grade II Listed property in Belgravia holds an almost improbable cultural biography – Mozart…
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How to Design a Home That Feels Like a Sanctuary with Ome Dezin (Design Masterclass)

How to design a home begins with understanding how space supports daily life, shaping both movement and emotional wellbeing. In the Kent Project by Ome Dezin, this approach is realised through a reworking of layout, materiality and light to create…