This time last year we featured an array of weird and wonderful houses, including a steel-plated bunker with a drawbridge (above) and a house with wonky legs and a rooftop swimming pool (below).
Indonesian architects Budi Pradono revealed images of two houses with trees growing inside them, which had one reader worrying about ants. The first house is filled with pools of water to cool down its residents (below), while the second is a concept for a house that leans forward.
Finally, two stark concrete houses in Lisbon (below) proved popular, even though readers thought the roof might be leaking.
Elsewhere, Stanton Williams completed a laboratory (below) that has just been nominated for the Stirling Prize and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture unveiled plans for the new tallest building in the world (bottom).
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