#historical villa

Mediterranean View House is a contemporary four-bedroom villa designed around the relationship between architectural form, landscape, and framed views. Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri The villa is organized across two levels, with one guest bedroom located on the ground floor and three bedrooms on the upper floor, including a private master suite. A fundamental principle of the design is to provide every bedroom with a direct and carefully framed view toward the surrounding landscape, allowing the private spaces to remain visually connected to the outdoors. Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri Pariya Hendi, Mehdi Nasiri The architectural form is developed through the combination of interconnected volumes ra... More

Waka Huia is a deeply personal renovation of a character villa on Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s harbour edge. Over more than forty years, its owner has filled the house with artworks, books, artefacts and family keepsakes, developing an instinctive understanding of rooms for art, entertaining and everyday life. The design continues this history. Original materials and crafted heritage details are retained and restored, with new work conceived in the same spirit of care, colour and longevity. Caption Caption Caption Caption On the ground floor, a reorganised plan brings the most frequently used rooms into morning light. The kitchen now occupies an open, central position connected to the dining room, garden and a vera... More

Located in the Poetto district of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), a short distance from the long coastal strip that defines one of the city’s most recognizable landscapes, the villa originates from the transformation of an existing structure dating back to the late 1930s, offering an opportunity to reflect on the theme of transformation. The project, developed under the direction of Armando Bruno for Studio Marco Piva, treats the existing building as working material rather than something to be replicated or restored. The aim is not to reconstruct a presumed original authenticity, but to redefine the relationship between architecture, domestic space, and landscape through a comprehensive process of rewriting the building organism. Mau... More

 Inside a 16th-century villa overlooking the Riviera del Brenta—just steps away from the iconic Villa Pisani in Stra—a project comes to life that merges the charm of history with the sensibility of contemporary living. Giulia Maretti The building, constructed in the second half of the 1500s by the noble Venetian Soranzo family and adorned with frescoes of mythological deities on its façade, now serves as a private residence. Giulia Maretti The restoration of the ancient attic—now transformed into a penthouse—was carried out with great attention to the dialogue between past and present, creating contemporary spaces without erasing the memory of the place. Numerous openings on all four sides flo... More