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Top houses of 2025: year in review

Dec 23, 2025, 8:08 AMfutureplc
Top houses of 2025: year in review
Homes that wowed architecture & environment director Ellie Stathaki this year
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Tour some of our favourite houses of 2025

Tour some of the most memorable and most-read-about homes explored by Wallpaper* this year (in no particular order – and click here for the full edit), from daring new builds to revived modernist gems and sustainably minded marvels. When can you move in?

 
 
 
 
Glazed house beside woods, from above

01. An experimental home reinvents the English farmstead

Designed by an architect couple, founders of Sanei + Hopkins, this ‘laboratory for living prototype’ is also their family home for seven

 
 
 
 
White modernist house beside pool

02. Inside a Donald Wexler house so magical, its owner bought it twice

So transfixed was Daniel Patrick Giles, founder of fragrance brand Perfumehead, he even created a special scent devoted to it

 
 
 
 
eco home amid trees

03. Half bridge, half home, this Indian adventure is full of suspense

Hovering above a forest stream in Maharashtra, Bridge House by Wallmakers pushes the limits of engineering and eco-conscious design

 
 
 
 
Wooden pavilion-like home

04. A weird and wonderful timber dwelling in Germany challenges the norm

Haus Anton II by Manfred Lux and Antxon Cánovas has wood architecture and DIY construction at its heart

 
 
 
 
House by pool

05. This Tokyo hideaway lies behind an enigmatic brutalist façade

Designed by Apollo Architects, Stealth House evokes the feeling of a secluded resort, complete with an infinity pool and a ‘car lounge’

 
 
 
 
dramatic desert house with low pitched roof, glazing and deck

06. An architect’s desert home in Palm Springs is a radical take on site-specific architecture

Tour Robert Stone’s house, where the roof touches the ground but the floors don’t

 
 
 
 
looking out from contemporary living space to courtyard garden

07. A contemporary retreat hides in plain sight in Sydney

Behind an unassuming neo-Georgian façade in Woollahra Village, this home by Tobias Partners is all light, space and modernity

 
 
 
 
Concrete house with tilted concrete ramp-like structure to first floor

08. Casa La Paz is all texture and theatrics in Baja California, Mexico

Ludwig Godefroy designed this private retreat to create deep connections with its surroundings

 
 
 
 
White contemporary house amid palms, with pool

09. Coconut palms frame a Nigerian beach house, a slice of paradise living

Ishahayi Beach House by Studio Contra offers a striking connection to the natural world with uninterrupted views of the Atlantic Ocean

 
 
 
 
apartment interior

10. A 1960s London townhouse is deftly transformed for the 21st century

Thanks to a sensitive redesign by Studio Hagen Hall, this midcentury gem in Hampstead is now a sustainable powerhouse

 
 
 
 
white cabin in snow

11. Cosy up in a Canadian cabin designed as ‘a warm embrace’

Timbertop is a minimalist weekend getaway by AKB Architects, a space of ‘mental stillness’ amid woodlands and wildlife

 
 
 
 
Concrete, curved house with open side

12. Capsule Retreat is a concrete home embedded with ‘texture, memory, and locality’

East Architecture Studio offers a powerfully minimalist home set among the coniferous forests of Mount Lebanon

 
  
  
 
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