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Travelling back in time with Adolf Loos: the Villa Winternitz in Prague is the Austrian architect's last great achievement - a functional and sensual experience based on Loos' finest spatial planning and minimalism.

Form follows function: the Hotel Avion in Brno, built by Bohuslav Fuchs, is considered an architectural masterpiece of the interwar avant-garde. Discover one of Europe's slimmest hotels.

The modernist holiday home Casa Navegna on Lake Maggiore is one of the early pioneers of "Neues Bauen" in Ticino. An architectural homage to the creative spirit, with an Arcadian garden and fantastic views.

Visionary architecture quotes classic modernism: The Green Henry Lodge in the Grisons wine village of Fläsch rises into the mountain air like a church tower. An avant-garde holiday home with a thoroughly sustainable perspective.

Design history in Ticino: in 1976, Otto e Associati, the architect collective Otto in Lugano transformed the 130-year-old stable into a simple residential house that still stands out today for its open, functional architecture and select furnishings.

Casa Salvati is part of an ensemble of three holiday homes built by the architects Alberto Salvati and Ambrogio Tresoldi in 1972 on a hill on the western shore of Lake Garda. An important element of Salvati and Tresoldi’s work was the use of colour.

The Dellacher House is considered one of Austria's most important architectural monuments. It is an early work by the architect Raimund Abraham, who became known in particular for the construction of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.

Hotel Briol high above the South Tyrolean Eisack Valley can only be reached on foot or with a taxi jeep. Time seems to stand still up here at 1310 meters height above sea level.

The old cotton mill in Leipzig is a melting pot for creative professionals. Numerous studios, galleries, workshops, a cinema, several theatres and shops have taken over this large factory site, located four kilometers away from the city centre.

Back to the 50s! The Oscar-Niemeyer House – located in the Hansa district in the centre of Berlin – was designed by the Brazilian architect for the International Building Exhibition in 1957. The RioMarie apartment stylishly transports its guests back to the years of the "Wirtschaftswunder".

Step back to the Roaring Twenties: Taut’s Home (Tautes Heim) is an architecture, design and Bauhaus lover’s dream. This house, which was designed by the famous German architect Bruno Taut in the 1920s, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Hufeisensiedlung Berlin.

The ‘Ship of Löbau’: Hans Scharoun’s Haus Schminke, first occupied in 1933, is regarded as one of the most significant residential buildings of the Classical Modernist period. Even today, it is possible to live in this functional yet extravagant ‘pasta steamer’ – on a temporary basis.