Travel to the finest contemporary homes in the world

We said it before and we’ll say it again – we love house porn here at Beast Travel. Hence our latest selection for Just Booked–Homes for Our Time: Contemporary Homes Around the World. Vol 2–takes you inside some of the grandest homes built in recent years.

The book, edited by Taschen and compiled by Philip Jodidio, the busiest man in the illustrated book world, is a follow-up to an earlier survey that we also featured. This volume places a particular focus on homes that cleverly adapt or reuse existing structures and materials, such as Eduardo Cadaval’s Theater in Barcelona, ​​Guillermo Acuna’s playful clapboard-style coastal cottage in Chile, and the eco-friendly Loom House in Washington.

There are, of course, the showstoppers. You can’t help but marvel at the futuristic Hobbit hilltop house designed by Mino Caggiula in Switzerland, or the villain’s lair, Casa S in Punta Pite, Chile. Then there are the envious views of a beach house in Tofino and Serfio in Greece. Best of all, ranging from the humble to the extravagant, this book reveals the essential truth of contemporary architecture – it’s more personal than ever.