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Borrassá by Peris + Toral Arquitectes holds 54 social housing units in Barcelona’s Besòs district.

The duo recently moved to Australia from Barcelona, and they drew inspiration from Spanish-style plazas for the home’s backyard.

The courtyard divides the "bi-nuclear" house into adult areas and children's areas, including a playroom.

Step by step, Georgina “Geo” Giner Gallardo and Zoe Barceló Vicedo converted a Lanzarote farm into a place to live, work, and surf.

The shower is tiled in muted green tiles and installed with contemporary fixtures.

The kitchen has Landslide pendants from Twenty One Tonnes and a curved concrete island.

Dow Chemical put Midland on the map, but architect and local scion Alden B. Dow made it the most modern town in Michigan. Dow’s masterpiece is undoubtedly his home and studio in Midland. Designed in 1933 to be built in stages, the sprawling manse seems to rise out of a pond, its green copper roof and bright-white, geometric form seemingly birthed by the landscape. It’s a nearly perfect evocation of a guiding Dow dictum, “Gardens never end, and buildings never begin.”

The Dow Test House (Carras House).

The Whitman House.

The removal of the money wall opened the kitchen up to the living room below, allowing more natural light into the space. The bookshelves below, where the family's hedgehog lives, and the shelving behind the sofa, are new additions.

Sitting eight feet off the ground, Erica and Eduardo Heidenreich’s island retreat in the Paraná River delta, north of Buenos Aires, is built to withstand the remote wetland’s periodic flooding.

Every inch of the home is designed to accommodate the family's needs with ample hidden storage keeping spaces clutter free, complemented by open storage with those items more frequently reached for such as books to read and ingredients to cook with.