Architecturally meaningful homes for sale worldwide.
Current residential listings from specialist architecture-focused brokerages around the world, together in one place.
The architectural property market, gathered.
Architecturally significant homes come to market constantly, and they are scattered. A modernist house in Portland, a converted chapel outside Antwerp, a Scharoun villa in Berlin — each on a different brokerage’s website, in a different language, indexed by no one.
Anyone interested in architecture rather than square footage has to already know where to look. Listed Architecture is the index that did not exist.
Architecture does not stop at the local market.
Specialist brokerages worldwide.
A small number of firms have built their businesses around architecture rather than square footage. Their current inventory is where most of this catalogue comes from.
Occasionally, we go further.
Most houses enter the catalogue simply because they belong there. For selected properties we take a closer look at what makes the architecture work — and, where there is genuine opportunity, how a careful edit could strengthen it.
The focus may be material, spatial or architectural, but the starting point is always the same: understand what gives the house its character before deciding what to change.
From catalogue to practice.
Listed Architecture is an editorial project by Uncommon Standard, a residential design studio rooted in DNA, consideration and purpose. The catalogue follows the houses; the studio applies the same judgement to residential design.
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We consider architecturally interesting homes currently offered for sale, and brokerages whose inventory belongs in the catalogue.