Most Visited Projects of 2025
This editorial features a curated selection of the ten most viewed projects of 2025. Works that resonated with both our audience and editorial team.
Throughout 2025, The Radical Project shared more than 300 projects from around the world, reflecting a wide range of contexts, scales, and ideas. Each project brings its own perspective and approach, questioning familiar design norms and offering new ways of thinking about space, form, and material.
Take a Look at This Year’s Standouts:
1.Cross House
Architects: Daisy Jacobs + Kollektiv Marudo
High above the Linth plain, Cross House is built into the hillside in a north-south orientation. The cross-shaped floor plan combines the strong, natural contrasts of the site in one geometry and is created by superimposing the contour line with the dip line.
The symbolism of the cross, to unite the human being in the horizontal with heaven and earth in the vertical, is referenced throughout the building. From the very first design ideas, Cross House was intended to anchor its residents within the transition between earth and sky and make this transition tangible. The house breaks down the boundary between light and dark, fragility and strength, protection and exposure, storm and calm, clear air and thick fog.
2.Kangaroo House
Architects: vvv
On the west side of the Place Hermann-Dumont, a complex of 3 houses, now protected, reflects an architectural project from the beginning of the 20th century. One of the three houses is located on the fold where the square meets the street. The Brussels typology then adapts to the contingencies of a corner plot. Today, the project is the starting point for a new reflection on living spaces. The living space is intended to have a ‘variable geometry’, allowing flexibility between common and private spaces, making it possible for several inhabitants to live together - a ‘kangaroo’ dwelling.
3.RÉPUBLIQUE
Architects: Wolff & Capon Architectes
A Subtle Renewal in the Heart of Paris’s 11th Arrondissement.
Tucked away in the vibrant 11th arrondissement of Paris, this apartment hadn’t seen a renovation since the 1980s. The recent transformation breathes new life into the space, restoring coherence and calm through a thoughtful reworking of volumes, functions, and materials — all guided by a restrained and sustainable approach.
4.200_ Villa With Internal View
Architects: MIDE architetti
A Home on the Threshold Between Nature and Architecture.
A minimal concrete villa that embraces the landscape with lightness and material presence.
On the edge between the urban settlement and the countryside, in a lush and still-authentic landscape, stands a single-family home that finds its identity in the balance between architectural rigor and openness to nature. Designed by MIDE architetti, the residence is laid out on a single level—an elongated horizontal gesture that rests lightly on the ground, guided by principles of subtraction and discretion.
5.Inhabiting the stable
Architects: Bard Yersin Architectes
Creation of an apartment in the rural section of a farmhouse in Praz-Pury.
The project involves the creation of an apartment in the partially disused rural part of a 1930s farmhouse. Fribourg farmhouses of that era housed both living quarters and farm functions under one roof. The rural section typically consisted of two stables flanking a central passageway — the fourragère — a through-space used for feeding livestock, which also benefited from additional height allowing hay to be stored above the stables.
6.Monte Do Divor
Architects: Vasco Burnay Arquitectura
The intervention is located outside the urban perimeter of Estremoz, thereby situated within a rural landscape characterized by small-scale, scattered buildings. Concerning the existing construction, it may be described as a typical house of the region: rectangular in plan, featuring a gabled roof along the longer axis of the plan, and punctuated by two large chimneys.
The intervention strategy is based on reading the pre-existing structure, both in its exterior presence and its interior characteristics. The low, elongated volume with a gabled roof, punctuated by the vertical assertion of the two chimneys, is fully preserved.
7.Casa GS
Architects: kick.office
Located in the heart of Città Studi, this apartment originally had an unfavorable floor plan, consisting of an entrance leading into a long, dark corridor. The project aims to transform this unappealing space into a true promenade with outstanding architectural quality. The insertion of a long barrel vault defines the corridor's width, creating a path with strong geometric character that not only emphasizes the linearity of the corridor but also guides the visitor towards the living area, which is revealed as a surprise at the end of the path.
The linearity of the corridor is further enhanced by a custom-made wardrobe that runs along its entire length, becoming the true backbone of the apartment and the separating element between the day and night zones. This component, in addition to providing important storage space, features a niche with a workstation and conceals the entrance to the guest bathroom.
8.Greta
Architects: DIIR
Brand identity and sales experience become fundamental values in the conception of this project.
The need to transmit healthy values explains the use of color. The project makes green its main protagonist and floods the space in a radical way. This design strategy requires an exclusive attention to every detail. Turning a single color into the main actor of the project requires the creation of a repertoire of constructive solutions where everything is related. Thus, we bet on variety in the use of materials, but we do not forget to make a selection in which each tone matches with the one next to it. An ambitious exercise whose result offers a peculiar and, above all, unique atmosphere.
9.South Barn
Architects: Studio Weave
Studio Weave has completed a family home on the Isle of Wight. The site is surrounded by farmland – near the town of Cowes. The building’s rough charm comes from being embedded in a working farm, with romantic views.
The design follows a light-touch approach, guided by sustainability and a deep respect for the historic building. Minimal changes were made, ensuring that the barn’s agricultural identity remains intact while adapting it for modern habitation. The architectural approach amplifies the character of the existing structure rather than replacing it. Original materials are celebrated and left visible, preserving elements that reflect the building’s 50-plus-year history. Subtle interventions create uplifting, high-quality spaces while maintaining the simplicity of the barn’s past.
10.Rundtjernveien
Architects: Studio Et al.
Total refurbishment of a 100 m² apartment in a functionalist apartment building in the outskirts of Oslo.
The project is about stripping back rather than adding. The floor and walls are sanded down to the structural layer, to be left exposed. Materials are added where necessary to create warmth, intimacy and subtly separating spaces. Massive boards of Douglas fir is added directly on top of the structural layer as low platforms for the more intimate functions of the house. The apartment building is constructed in concrete with load bearing slabs and shear walls. The plan is essentially an open plan and the apartment is very narrow, with the potential quality of being connected to both sides of the building.
