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Twenty minutes from Marfa, a couple bring a 1914 home back to basics by peeling away faux stone, preserving marbelized tile, and building an addition that’s boxy in the best way.

Unknown Works updated the space with floor-to-ceiling glazing and concrete floors that run from the interior to a tranquil backyard escape.

Despite its small footprint, the flexible, multi-purpose space includes bike storage and a niche for storing weights.

Pool and pool house as the sun sets.

The never-built Kalevala House (Kalevalatalo in Finnish) was designed in 1921 by Eliel Saarinen to be a monument of sorts to Finnish cultural studies and nationalism in Helsinki. Courtesy of Museum of Finnish Architecture, published in Atlas of Never Built Architecture (Phaidon, May 2024)

Garcé & Dimofski preserved this Lisbon apartment’s intricate 19th-century details while filling it with fresh light fixtures, wood paneling, and Portuguese marble.

Objects collected over the couple’s travels are displayed across the book-lined shelves.

Almo Troup repurposed nearly all of the materials from a tumbledown shack to create a dreamy, minimalist workspace in his backyard.

Frontal facade - Street view

Chicago industrialist Charles Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute in 1946 and commissioned Bauhaus-trained artistic polymath Herbert Bayer to design the campus, which today includes the Aspen Meadows Resort and the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies. Photo courtesy Aspen Meadows Resort.