Canadian studio RHAD Architects has completed Two Bay House in Nova Scotia, Canada, which consists of blocky volumes with carved-out voids, mass-timber framing and blackened wood cladding. More about RHAD Architects gives Nova Scotia house "quiet, monolithic presence"
New York studio Khanna Schultz has taken cues from Japanese architecture to create a "net-positive-energy" house in the Hamptons, New York, which features dark wood cladding and a large rooftop solar array. More about Khanna Schultz infuses House in Amagansett with "atmosphere of quiet contemplation"
Angular black-concrete volumes are punctured by small tree-filled patios at this home in Mexico, completed by architecture studio Taller Alberto Calleja. More about Black concrete defines "strong and monolithic" Casa Mavra in Mexico
UK studio Denizen Works has exclusively revealed its first house in Japan, which features an almost entirely blank street-facing facade. More about Denizen Works designs Japanese house with "enigmatic quality"
Local studio SHED Architecture & Design has renovated a 1920s building into a compact two-level home with a black exterior and interior references to its history in Seattle. More about SHED Architecture & Design renovates home for Seattle restaurateur
With an emphasis on "long-term thinking", American architecture studio Miller Hull Partnership has placed a modular wood cabin on steel columns on a sloped island site in Washington state. More about Miller Hull Partnership "embraces levitation" for Washington cabin on stilts
Local studio Garnett DePasquale Projects has settled a compact, black-stained cedar house on a tree-lined Sag Harbor lot in the Hamptons in New York. More about Garnett DePasquale Projects wraps Hamptons house in black cedar
Chilean studio Ignacio Correa Arquitecto has completed the House in Three Heights in Chile, which features two timber-clad buildings connected by a slender bridge enclosure with glazed walls. More about Wood-clad home by Ignacio Correa steps down a Chilean hillside
Dutch practice Studioquint has renovated and extended a farmhouse in the Netherlands, adding a barn-like form clad in black timber that was designed to resemble the "shadow" of the existing building. More about Studioquint extends Dutch farmhouse with black-timber Shadow Barn extension
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features two conjoined houses in Germany by Buero Wagner. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "sharp and inspiring take on suburban densification"
Charred timber shrouds the exposed concrete interiors of these two conjoined homes in Germany, designed by local studio Buero Wagner. More about Charred timber and exposed concrete defines conjoined houses in Germany by Buero Wagner
A large gable roof with white-painted rafters sails over Senior Shelter, a house cloaked in black timber by Dutch studio i29 for an elderly couple in the Netherlands. More about Overhanging roof shelters black-timber Senior Shelter in the Netherlands
Toronto studio Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect has wrapped a gabled house in blackened wood and included wedge-shaped clerestory windows to respond to the lakeside landscape in the Muskoka Region of Ontario. More about Barbora Vokac Taylor includes viewfinder windows on black Ontario cabin
California studio Brooks + Scarpa has included roofs with exaggerated gables for the angular black-metal-clad Steeplechase house in the forests of North Carolina, USA, designed to merge modern and traditional elements. More about Brooks + Scarpa "revitalises traditional forms" with gabled North Carolina house
US studio Desai Chia Architecture has merged barn design with "a contemporary sensibility" to create the Clinton Corners House, which features charred cedar facades and a crisp silhouette. More about Desai Chia Architecture creates black gabled house in Upstate New York
Portland-based studio Hacker Architects has replaced an outdated lodge with a blackened wood-and-glass structure featuring elements informed by the volcanic landscape of Sisters, Oregon. More about Volcanic landscape informs Hacker Architects design of Oregon lodge
A steel-framed box has been perched across large concrete supports like a bridge to form Villa Sidonius, a home in the Czech Republic by local studio Stempel & Tesar. More about Stempel & Tesar perches black-steel villa on hill overlooking Prague
Matte-black volumes frame views of the surrounding jungle "like a natural painting" at this house in Bali, Indonesia, designed by local architecture studio Senyum Design. More about Senyum Design places matte-black Jahten House overlooking jungle in Bali
From a home formed of two overlapping volumes in Alabama to a structure on a narrow site in San Francisco, we've rounded up 11 houses in the United States with striking black facades. More about Eleven US houses with bold black exteriors
Australian studio Fouché Architects has completed Tallowwood Cabin, a black house with an angular form that cantilevers over its sloping plot in Queensland. More about Fouché Architects perches black house on forested Queensland hillside