SALOMON LIGTHELM Lionel Goldstein have that rare gift of being able to make something feel graphic, playful, strange, and exact all at once. This spot is just pure lunacy. You just know they had an absolute joy making this — it stays alive, witty, and full of momentum. There’s a confidence to the concept that I really admire. It’s stylized naturalism work with real personality.

Praksis Arkitekter Peter Märkli’s Studio House is distinguished by its emphasis on materiality, where the tactile qualities of brick, concrete, and wood are carefully articulated. The walls and the staircase seem both heavy and light, flat and textured, simple and complex, ordinary and incredibly rich.