Come for the Mod Pad, Stay For the Mediterranean Views

If you, too, covet well-located, well-appointed modern homes, you'll want to add architecture studio Cadaval & Solá-Morales's Sunflower House to your list. Built by the Barcelona- and Mexico City-based firm for a young family, the 2,690-square-foot hillside aerie, perched like a gull on a rocky promontory along Spain's Costa Brava, comprises a series of stacked cubic volumes oriented toward the Mediterranean to provide stunning views out across the sea and to the surrounding Cabo de Creus National Park.

∙ Sunflower House / Cadaval & Solá-Morales [ArchDaily]