Concrete

Raked concrete covers this T-shaped house, which architecture studio Spridd has slotted into a sloped site surrounded by trees on the island of Nacka in Stockholm. Appropriately called T House, the home was created by Spridd for a family, along with a separate guest apartment for an elderly relative. To minimise excavation of the steeply

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Local architecture studio Taller David Dana has stacked a series of boxes to create a vertical terraced house on a hillside in Mexico City. Mexico City-based studio Taller David Dana completed the expansive 1,817-square metre design for Casa Madre in 2023, balancing staggered concrete volumes over five storeys in a quiet but urban area in

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A collision of geometric forms in contrasting brick and concrete defines Great Primary Shapes House, a dwelling in South Africa designed by local architect Gregory Katz. Commissioned by a couple with a “distaste for the ordinary”, the four-bedroom home in a suburb of Johannesburg is made up of squares, circles, triangles and an octagon. The

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Local studio Práctica Arquitectura has elevated a concrete infill house with a red finish outside of Monterrey, Mexico. Práctica Arquitectura completed the 1,615 square-foot (150-square metre) Casa Ederlezi on a small, rectangular lot measuring only five metres wide in the protected heritage neighborhood of San Pedro Garza. “Combining classic elements of northwestern Mexican architecture with

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