Glass bricks, metal grilles and glossy tiles lend an industrial character to Light House, a family home in the Netherlands designed by local architecture practice Studioninedots. More about Studioninedots fronts skinny Amsterdam home with glass blocks
From a tall structure with a metal screen in SoHo to house extensions in neighbourhoods around Prospect Park, we've rounded up seven townhouses in New York City designed to make the most of narrow lots. More about Seven narrow New York townhouses making the most of urban space
American studio ISA has used a range of strategies to maximise space, light and views in the metal-clad Signal House, which rises from a slender urban lot. More about ISA creates skinny metal-clad apartment building in Philadelphia
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a skinny house with exposed concrete walls in Japan, designed by local studio IGArchitects. More about "Doing more with less is always commendable" says commenter
Walls of exposed concrete define this skinny house in Saitama, Japan, which local studio IGArchitects designed with a width of just 2.7 metres. More about IGArchitects slots skinny 2700 house into narrow plot in Japan
A 124-year-old Brooklyn townhouse has received an extension by local studio TBo that provides space for a multi-generational family and creates "gentle oppositions" between the old and new architecture. More about TBo creates sunlit concrete-framed extension for Brooklyn townhouse
The founders of local architecture studio Only If have completed a multi-storey, slender house for themselves that is meant to represent the potential for "architectural invention in constrained, residual urban spaces". More about Only If designs Narrow House for extra-skinny lot in Brooklyn
Vietnamese studio ODDO Architects has slotted a spacious family home into a narrow gap between two buildings in Hanoi. More about ODDO Architects builds five-storey CH House on four-metre-wide site in Hanoi
Architecture collective Frankie Pappas has hidden the 3.3-metres-wide House of the Big Arch within the Bushveld nature reserve in the north of South Africa. More about Frankie Pappas threads skinny house through South African forest
Sandy Rendel Architects, working with Sally Rendel, has built a 2.8-metre-wide skinny home named Slot House in a disused alley in Peckham, south London. More about Sandy Rendel Architects slots narrow house into Peckham alley
A skinny house clad in black steel by Apollo Architects & Associates slots into a tiny plot of land in Tokyo, Japan, and features minimalist interiors. More about Skinny house squeezed into dense Tokyo neighbourhood
The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, designed by architecture studio Selencky Parsons. More about Skinny house built in gap for Victorian coach house in London
Parts of an industrial shack in Amsterdam have been incorporated into the 5-metre-wide Huis M&M, a residential conversion by NEXT Architects and architect Claudia Linders. More about Industrial shed converted into skinny house and studio in Amsterdam
With space at a premium in cities, architects are designing homes that can squeeze into the narrowest of gaps. We've rounded up 12 skinny houses that are four-metres wide or less to show that size isn't everything. More about Twelve skinny houses that make the most of every inch
A stack of intersecting concrete and metal cuboids combines to create this long, narrow home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. More about FORM/Kouichi Kimura designs Slender House in suburban Japan
Architecture practice Studio BAM! has built a skinny house clad in charred cedar in the garden of a Victorian end-of-terrace home in London. More about Studio BAM! builds Infill House in London garden
A perforated metal facade covers the front of 3,500 Millimetre House, a wedge-shaped skinny house built on a 3.5-metre-wide site in Indonesia by AGo Architects. More about AGo Architects builds skinny house in Indonesia on a 3.5-metre plot
Japanese architects Geneto has hollowed out a geometric void in the base of a four-metre-wide house in Osaka that doubles as a garage and communal space. More about Geneto raises skinny house in Japan above pentagonal garage hole
An exposed concrete frame supports this 4.2-metre-wide skinny house in Melbourne designed by Oliver du Puy Architects to feature meditation spaces. More about Oliver du Puy Architects creates 4.2-metre-wide Skinny House in Melbourne
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living series features an extremely narrow house designed for a 3.9-metre-wide plot in Brooklyn. More about Narrow House designed as prototype for building on unusual plots