In our latest lookbook, we've rounded up homes spanning Chile, Ireland and Japan with dining rooms that are brightened by glass-covered voids. More about Seven dining rooms illuminated by voids that double as lightwells
Local architecture practice HW Studio has centred Casa Emma around a lightwell and wrapped its interiors in wood on an infill lot in Morelia, Mexico. More about HW Studio carves pyramidal lightwell into Mexican house
Architecture studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has unveiled its design for a timber-framed Maggie's Centre surrounded by woodland for Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. More about Niall McLaughlin designs timber structure "pinwheeled around lightwell" for Maggie's Cambridge
Architecture studio Kallos Turin paired the cubic facade of this poured concrete Athens house with a sloping internal staircase to avoid creating a "rigid" home. More about Kallos Turin nestles monolithic Athens residence in oasis-like garden
Local design studio McLeod Bovell has completed a seaside home with a dramatic cantilever and multiple lightwells in West Vancouver, British Columbia. More about McLeod Bovell uses cantilevers in "fortress-like" West Vancouver house
Architecture firm Bindloss Dawes has reorganised a mews house in Chelsea, adding a full-height lightwell with a dramatic oak-and-steel staircase to forge "a sense of volume and theatre". More about Bindloss Dawes maximises light and space in London mews house
A previously hidden central lightwell funnels light into this formerly dark and enclosed apartment in Athens designed by local architects Point Supreme Architects. More about Point Supreme Architects uses colour to define different functions in Athens apartment
Canadian studio Jean Verville Architecte has created a theatrical interior inside a Montreal house by adding a large steel structure capped by a skylight that casts dramatic shadows. More about Jean Verville Architecte inserts gridded steel lightwell into Montreal home
Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has renovated the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore in Wuhan, China, inserting a shard-like glass lightwell that pierces through six stories. More about Wutopia inserts inverted triangular lightwell into book shop
Flow Architecture and Maria Grazia Savito Architects have wrapped timber slats around the lightwell of a Victorian house conversion in Kensington, London. More about Flow Architecture lines stairwell of London house conversion with timber slats
Daylight Saving Time has ended in the northern hemisphere, but this week's featured Pinterest boards are here to bring some light into your day. Lighten up with impressive installations and flood your room with skylights and lightwells so you're never left in the dark. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Look on the bright side with our light-filled Pinterest boards
Beijing practice Atelier Tao+C has inserted a narrow light shaft into the centre of this 1930s home in Shanghai to illuminate its light-starved rooms. More about Atelier Tao+C inserts lightwell to brighten interiors of traditional Shanghai lane house
A lightwell, a glass staircase and large windows set behind wooden louvres help to bring natural light into this four-bedroom house, which Belsize Architects squeezed onto a small plot in a traditional mews near London's Hyde Park. More about Pivoting louvres conceal windows set into brick facade of mews house by Belsize Architects
An elongated lightwell has been cut through this 1940s house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which has been renovated by locally based architecture studio Kientruc O. More about Kientruc O carves elliptical lightwell between Vietnamese house and its extension
We've selected 10 popular projects from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that show how lightwells can be used to channel daylight down into parts of the home where windows are limited. More about 10 homes that make clever use of lightwells to bring daylight in
A tree grows up through a lightwell that Australian studio Welsh + Major has added to this house in Sydney, and topped with an opening glass roof. More about Welsh + Major slots lightwell between Sydney cottage and its brick extension
Lightwell House is a recently completed residence in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Tokyo-based Kimizuka Architects. More about Lightwell House by Kimizuka Architects
Work Architecture Company have completed the headquarters for fashion label Diane von Furstenberg Studio in New York's Meatpacking District. More about DVF Studio by Work Architecture Company