London’s Spitalfields district was once notorious. Jack the Ripper pursued his victims here. Now, it’s one of the British capital’s most coveted residential addresses. We look around a renovated 18th-century house.

Danish interior designer Lene Halse Hornemann has converted a former clinic into a chic and easygoing family home. Using a nuanced palette of gray, she's created a space that's surprisingly warm and welcoming.

Álvaro Leite Siza, son of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza designed a monumental residence in Porto. With a blend of soft and modern elements, it’s an oasis of calm in the city.

A Portuguese architect tore down a rundown, narrow apartment house in Lisbon and built a modern townhouse with 7 rooms on 5 floors in its place. From the top floor, there's a delightful view of Lisbon.

Czech HSH architects designed a cubic villa that’s located in Beroun near Prague. The 24 cubes of the structure are defined by a steel grid which dominates the interior as well as the exterior design of the building.

The "Casa Levene" designed by Eduardo Arroyo is one of the most lauded architectural designs in Spain in the last few years. The towering pine forest was to remain intact, so the house was designed around the trees.

Featuring a modern, airy house on a small plot of land in the Austrian capital. It measures 5 x 35 meters and was designed by the Vienna Caramel architecture office.

In the upscale neighborhood of Jordaan, designers Oliver Michell and George Gottl transformed a former storage house for sugar built in 1763 into a roomy, open concept loft, keeping many of the original features.

Janis Gulbis turned his family's summer home from the 70's into a modern domicile. Now he and his wife live there year-round. Their 190 square meter house is big enough for family visits, and energy-efficient to boot.

A protected tree inspired the architects to resort to a special language of form. The result is a house of geometrical shapes and large glass facades.