A sleek and breezy apartment in Rio de Janeiro captures the character of its urban beach surroundings.

Architect Arthur Casas works with a Brazilian engineering and construction startup on a kitchen for prefabricated and sustainable houses.

A new hotel building in Brazil fills a gap on the Copacabana with its fresh take on Rio style.

This gut renovation of an existing Spanish Colonial–style structure in a resort town of Baja California reinterprets traditional forms and materials.