Pure Architecture

13/06/2026

Villa Margo is a family house in Helsinki by Talli Architecture & Design, located in a dense, small-scale residential area. The dark green-painted main house replaces a dilapidated building on the same footprint, while carefully preserving the plot's mature vegetation and small green hill. Its two-storey volume follows the geometry of the site, using corners and recesses to form a series of sheltered terraces that open in different directions. A separate garden building, used as a music studio, defines the edge of the yard and adds privacy to the garden. The house is built from solid CLT, with vertical timber boarding, a zinc sheet roof and fan-assisted natural ventilation. Inside, light spruce surfaces and dark red terracotta tiles create a warm, grounded interior, while upper-level rooms look through the treetops and over the surrounding roofs.

Project Name: Villa Margo
Location & Year: Helsinki, Finland - 2025
Floor Area: Main house 210m² / 2,260ft²
Architects:
Design Team: Jenni Hölttä, Principal designer and responsible building designer; design phase with Mer Arkkitehna Nordström
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12/06/2026

11/06/2026

In the late 1940s, Mies van der Rohe designed the Edith Farnsworth House near Chicago — a masterpiece of minimalism and proportion. Framed in steel and glass, it became a defining Modernist icon. Now open to the public, it’s a must-see for architecture lovers. Would you visit this serene glass retreat?

Ph. Carol Highsmith; Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

11/06/2026

Seijaku House
Pranala Associates | Bandung | Indonesia

Photography | Ernest Theofilus
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10/06/2026

Argentina studio Además Arquitectura has completed a blocky concrete house protected by a rounded privacy wall in a suburban area of Buenos Aires.
Casa Alba II is a 248-square-metre (2,670-square feet) house located in the city’s Ezeiza-Canning neighbourhood.
The house was given a wall that curves around the corner of the 0.3-acre lot, serving as both a boundary and a space-generating element.
“Casa Alba II explores the wall as an architectural device that constructs privacy while redefining the relationship between domestic life and the city,” Además Arquitectura told Dezeen.
“Drawing on the legacy of Luis Barragán, the project adopts an introspective approach, turning inward to create a controlled and atmospheric interior world.”
“Rather than a secondary element, the wall becomes the central architectural device, organizing views, light and circulation,” the studio continued. “The house unfolds inward, with each space relating back to this perimeter condition.”The perimeter wall serves to distance the residence from its suburban surroundings, filtering visual and spatial connections and reflecting natural light indirectly onto the interior of the wall into the house through large windows.
Completed in 2024, the program is arranged in a series of volumes that run diagonally to the street, oriented toward a central intersection and running north to south.A central axis separates the public and private areas, with three private sleeping areas on the west side of the house.

09/06/2026

Each year, during the dry season, the reed-covered flats around Junshan Island in Dongting Lake transform into an otherworldly landscape. In this shifting terrain, STUDIO DUYANG has created Healing “MOUNTAIN”—a sculptural shelter imagined as a floating form within the vast field. Inspired by the disorientation and intensity of walking through the dense reeds, the installation offers an anchor point—a symbolic mountain to rest, reflect, and seek shade. Using reed mat as the primary material, the structure merges raw nature with subtle engineering. Internally supported by minimal steel columns, the curving canopy hovers lightly above the land, forming a quiet, meditative interior and an open, sunlit exterior. The gaps between its surfaces invite wind, light, and movement, allowing it to breathe as part of the surrounding landscape. A contemporary echo of traditional Chinese roofs, Healing “MOUNTAIN” blurs the line between architecture, land art, and spiritual space.

Healing “Mountain”
Yueyang, China - 2023
Floor Area: 220m2 / 2,368ft2
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08/06/2026

Metabolic Wall is a small pavilion in the Italian hills of Pietrarubbia.The project takes the form of a linear timber wall made from a modular grid sized to hold standard hay bales, with several units removed to open a passage through the structure. Rather than enclosing an interior, the intervention acts as a threshold in the landscape: a long, porous marker that frames views, registers seasonal change and gradually alters through use by animals, weather and decay. The hay infill is not treated as cladding or insulation but as a living, time-based material. Birds pull it apart for nests, wild boars disturb its base, insects burrow into it and fungi begin to soften and transform it. As the organic mass recedes, the timber frame is slowly exposed, shifting the pavilion from density to lightness. In its final phase, the structure is dismantled and repurposed, extending the project’s metaphor of reuse and return.

Project Name: Metabolic Wall
Location & Year: Pietrarubbia, Italy - 2025
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07/06/2026

04/06/2026

Set along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, this coastal house balances exposure and shelter within a dramatic natural landscape of wetlands, forest, and ocean. A thick wooden wall anchors the design, organizing the home while defining a sheltered courtyard to the north and a protected terrace to the south. Containing all services, this wall allows two offset pitched-roof volumes to rest above—one for the main living spaces and the other for a garage and guest suite.

The home is carefully positioned at the crest of the site, appearing modest from the road while opening expansively toward the Atlantic with a largely glazed façade. Inside, the layout is inverted: living spaces above capture panoramic views, while bedrooms below remain grounded and private. Natural materials, including weathering cedar and maple interiors, reinforce a quiet, tactile connection to place—creating a home that is both resilient and deeply attuned to its coastal environment.

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Project Name: Lawrencetown House
Location & Year: West Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada - 2024
Floor Area: 325m² / 3,498.3ft²
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Collaborators: David Burlock
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