Italian studio MoDus Architect has completed Hometown House, a dwelling in Trento that contrasts a black-timber exterior with light and airy larch-lined interiors. More about MoDus Architects contrasts "refinement and ruggedness" for Italian home
Local practice Päivä Architekti has expanded a rural home in the Czech Republic, perching a tanned larch-clad annex on the edge of its sloping forest site. More about Päivä Architekti perches larch-clad extension alongside hilltop home in Czech Republic
British studio Foster + Partners has designed a sinuous timber showroom to mimic the "contours of the landscape" in Gstaad, Switzerland. More about Foster + Partners arranges Alpine gallery around three-storey car ramp
British architecture studio Rural Office has added larch-clad extensions on either side of this farmhouse on the south Welsh coast, bringing flexible social spaces to the remote property. More about Rural Office bookends Delfyd Farmhouse in Wales with larch-clad extensions
Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has completed the holiday house Yngsjö, using natural materials and a light colour palette to help it blend with its surroundings in southern Sweden. More about Johan Sundberg Arkitektur wraps stilted house in Sweden with Siberian larch
Montreal-based design studio Ménard Dworkind has completed a blocky residence wrapped in cedar designed to immerse residents in the tranquility of a forest in Quebec. More about Ménard Dworkind creates Quebec forest house with "dynamic facade"
Bregenz studio Bernardo Bader Architekten has completed a cuboidal primary school in rural Austria that is designed as a "village within the village". More about Bernardo Bader Architekten creates cuboidal primary school in rural Austria
Swiss architecture studio Itten+Brechbühl has created a temporary timber university sports hall in Zurich, with aspirations for its demountable construction to be "the new standard in architecture". More about Itten+Brechbühl creates demountable timber sports hall for University of Zurich
Horizontal larch planks clad the exterior of Brampton, a house on a steeply sloping site in Cumbria by Scottish studio Mary Arnold-Forster Architects. More about Mary Arnold-Forster Architects creates "modern agricultural aesthetic" for Cumbrian home
German architects Sascha Henken and Stefanie Rittler have added a scalloped shelter and lookout for cyclists to a cycleway in Austria. More about Pier 1/2 cycleway lookout pairs wood shingles with postmodern influences
Architecture studio Hutch Design has created The Maker's Barn, a holiday home on the outskirts of London that is finished with a palette of "natural and honest" materials. More about Hutch Design transforms concrete pig shed into rural retreat outside London
Using a combination of copper, larch and structural insulated panels, architecture firm Whittaker Parsons has added an additional storey to a contemporary mews house in Stoke Newington to house a bedroom suite. More about Whittaker Parsons crowns North London mews house with "bolthole" extension
Mirrored panels and Siberian larch cladding characterise Harwell Hide, a cluster of workspace pavilions designed by London studio Bell Phillips to blend into its surroundings in Oxfordshire. More about Bell Phillips adds mirrored pavilions to science campus in Oxfordshire
Black-painted larch shingles cover the exterior of this artist's studio in London, designed by local architecture practice Archer + Braun. More about Black larch shingles cover Schindel Studio in London by Archer + Braun
Timber interiors and larch cladding reference the surrounding Bohemian Forest at this pared-back cabin in the Czech Republic, designed by French practice Les Archinautes in collaboration with local practice 3AE. More about Les Archinautes and 3AE create timber cabin overlooking lake in Czech Republic
Designer Sebastian Cox has designed a treehouse in the English countryside that features scorched larch cladding, a shingled roof and a balustrade of chestnut branches. More about Sebastian Cox creates subtle treehouse from scorched larch
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a caste entrance modelled on a siege engine. More about A castle entrance features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Siege engines and market halls informed the design of the Auckland Tower, a larch entrance building and viewpoint that Niall McLaughlin Architects has created for a castle in England. More about Niall McLaughlin Architects models castle entrance tower on siege engine
Minimal white living spaces lie behind the blackened timber facade of this extension that Studio Hallett Ike has added to a Victorian flat in north London. More about Studio Hallett Ike expands ER Residence in London with charred larch extension
The scenic hills of Italy's Val Tidone are the setting for this modern larch-clad house, designed by Milanese architects Studio Koster. More about Studio Koster builds contemporary country house in the Val Tidone