An austere exterior of stacked concrete volumes conceals a double-height courtyard and plant-filled terrace at the heart of this home in Tokyo, designed by local studio Apollo Architects & Associates. More about Apollo Architects & Associates prioritises "security and privacy" for Tokyo home
Munich-based architecture firm Holzrausch has completed a two-storey extension to a penthouse in Frankfurt, featuring open-plan living spaces that connect with a roof terrace overlooking the city. More about Holzrausch designs Frankfurt penthouse as a "roof garden in the middle of the city"
Local practice Bruzkus Greenberg has redesigned a penthouse apartment in Berlin, adding a blue-stained wooden core that contains key functions including the entrance and built-in banquette. More about Bruzkus Greenberg arranges compact apartment around multifunctional "blue box"
Japanese studio HOAA has completed House in Nakano, a timber-lined home in Tokyo that is buffered from the street by an elevated, looping metal terrace for potted plants. More about Curving metal terrace for potted plants fronts home in Tokyo by HOAA
French architecture studio Tectoniques has completed the Dominique Frelaut School in Paris, wrapping a central courtyard with a series of stepped volumes topped by green terraces. More about Planted rooftop terraces "cascade" down stepped school in Paris by Tectoniques
"An open auditorium" formed of stepped terraces crowns this sprawling brick-clad university building in Indore, revealed here exclusively by Indian studio Sanjay Puri Architects. More about Sanjay Puri Architects references stepped wells for Indian university
Architecture studio KPF has completed a waste incineration plant in Taiwan, wrapping its tiered structure with a spiralling, landscaped terrace. More about KPF wraps waste incineration plant with spiralling terrace
Czech architecture studio Opočenský Valouch Architects has completed Vida Elementary School on the outskirts of Prague, topping its red-brick volumes with a terrace of teaching spaces, play areas and vegetable gardens. More about OVA crowns school in Prague with rooftop play areas and vegetable gardens
Sloping walkable roof terraces stretch over GOE, a food research centre that Danish architecture studio BIG and Spanish studio Bat Architecture designed as a continuation of the landscape at San Sebastián, Spain. More about Stacked culinary hub by BIG and Bat Architecture "liberates the ground"
From expansive outdoor spaces to discrete rooftop nooks, our latest roundup spotlights homes from Mexico to Vietnam crowned with rooftop terraces for enjoying the summer sun. More about Eight homes with rooftop terraces that offer a sunny retreat
Sculptural walls of curved concrete hug a series of planted terraces for cats and dogs at this veterinary hospital in Albania, designed by Swiss studio Davide Macullo Architects. More about Curved concrete walls create "open and freeing environment" at veterinary hospital
French-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque and São Paolo firm Architects Office have completed AGE360 in Brazil, a residential skyscraper with a load-bearing concrete "exoskeleton". More about Concrete exoskeleton wraps skyscraper in Brazil by Triptyque and Architects Office
Local architecture studio Carmody Groarke has overhauled a penthouse apartment in London, adding slanted panels of aluminium to create a sheltered rooftop terrace. More about Carmody Groarke tops listed London penthouse with aluminium "rooftop pavilion"
A doughnut-shaped terrace and green roofs covered with sedum are among the standout features of a V-shaped research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed by local architecture studio Payette. More about Payette creates sculptural Ragon Institute on triangular site in Massachusetts
British studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for the 42-storey Cityzen Tower in Tbilisi, Georgia, which will swoop towards the ground with a series of terraces. More about Zaha Hadid Architect designs skyscraper with cascading terraces in Tbilisi
A series of irregularly stacked boxes will make up the LuLa Light Mall shopping centre, currently under construction in Chengdu, China, by Dutch studio MVRDV. More about MVRDV unveils design for stacked shopping centre in Chengdu
Thick walls of rammed-earth and large, exposed terraces show contrasts between "shelter and openness" at this coastal guesthouse in Mexico, which has been completed by architecture studio PPAA. More about PPAA designs rammed-earth guesthouse in Mexico to "blend seamlessly with the terrain"
Mexico City architecture studios Módica Ledezma and JJRR Arquitectura have teamed up to construct a stacked seaside residence called Iyari, giving it inverted concrete roofs in Nayarit, Mexico. More about Módica Ledezma and JJRR Arquitectura create tiered concrete house on Mexican cliffside
Local studio DRM Arquitectura has designed a space-framed drive-through ice cream parlour lifted on inverted V-shaped columns in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More about DRM Arquitectura uses prefabricated structure for Buenos Aires ice cream shop
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona. More about Álvaro Siza steps orange-hued concrete home into sloped site in Barcelona