In the heart of the Salento region countryside, in an area known for oil production and sheep rearing, Margine completes “Casa Ulìa” (Olive House in Salento dialect) a Mediterranean-style detached residence designed for a young couple – he a building contractor and she a professor – who wanted an oasis of peace, equipped with all comforts, just a few kilometers from Lecce.
The Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST) is a newly completed research facility at the University of Pennsylvania, bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scientists, policymakers, and students committed to advancing sustainable energy research.
The word house functions as both a verb and a noun. To house is a transitive verb, which requires a direct object to complete its meaning. The purpose of a dwelling is to house an individual or a family, and we cannot separate the act of housing from its object.
Caronte is the restoration project of a farmhouse in the Salento countryside, completed by Margine in 2025. In the lands between Lecce and Vernole, surrounded by olive trees and just a few kilometers from the sea, stands Masseria Caronte, a rural home where sheep were once raised and wool and yarn were produced. Over the years, after numerous businesses and years of abandonment, the structure underwent a major renovation and conversion into a restaurant in 2024. Commissioned by a group of young local entrepreneurs, Margine proposed a project aimed at eliminating the numerous additions that had occurred over time and restoring the factory’s ancient charm.
The Shaanxi Culture and Art Museum project is located in Xi’an’s Xixian New Area, east of the West Third Ring Road and west of the Epang Palace ruins. The planned site area is 94,000 square meters, with a total construction area of 135,000 square meters. The project primarily includes a performing arts theater, a Silk Road Art Museum, and comprehensive cultural facilities.
The Site, A Poetic Dwelling Woven by Arcs – The post station is nestled at a hairpin bend of Banhu Ridge, where the site conditions are highly challenging: adjacent to a highway on one side and flanked by steep slopes and dense bamboo forests on the other. By cleverly leveraging this unique terrain, the building unfolds along the curve of the bend, not only conforming to the alignment of the highway but also resolving the elevation difference of the steep slopes through cantilever design. The natural barrier formed by the surrounding bamboo forests endows the post station with a serene ambiance of “being hidden in the mountains”, while the golden trumpet tree piercing through the roof serves as a visual focal point, infusing vitality into the rugged landscape.
This renovation project is an exemplary alternative to the all-too-common practice of demolition and reconstruction, which tends to replace complexity with standardized solutions. Here, the approach was to recover and transform, minimizing waste and giving new value to materials via preservation rather than replacement.
This renovation project is an exemplary alternative to the all-too-common practice of demolition and reconstruction, which tends to replace complexity with standardized solutions. Here, the approach was to recover and transform, minimizing waste and giving new value to materials via preservation rather than replacement.
At the quiet end of a street, integrated in a cluster of buildings that belong to the same extended family, there was a ruin. A young and growing family decided to rebuild it, due to a deep emotional connection, as it once belonged to the client’s grandparents. Right next to it stands her parents’ house, where she lived for many years. The desire to reinhabit this ruin stems from a longing return to a place of memories and to live close to family core, where the client’s parents, now grandparents, will closely witness the growth of their grandchildren.
A model for healthy living and resilience, the Edwin M. Lee Apartments is the first building in San Francisco to combine supportive housing for both unhoused veterans and low-income families. This collaboration—Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, Saida + Sullivan Design Partners, Swords to Plowshares, and Chinatown Community Development Center—supports an integrated, equitable, and sustainable community in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood.
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