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
An adaptable timber-framed home in Japan and a refurbished thatched-roof cottage in Germany feature in this roundup spotlighting Dezeen's top five houses of October. More
Living spaces are organised around a decades-old olive tree in this Santa Monica home, completed by Los Angeles studio Woods +Dangaran. More
For all their architectural merits, the shortlisted projects for this year's Neave Brown award cannot escape the problems that continue to plague the British housing sector writes Kaye Stout, chair of the jury panel for the recently announced prize. More
American studio Sarah Jefferys Architecture + Interiors has renovated a slender townhouse in Brooklyn with airy rooms and a cedar screen on the facade to meet Passive House standards. More
Resolution 4 Architecture stacked a modular beach house above sand dunes for an unencumbered view of the Atlantic Ocean in Lido Beach, New York. More
Mexican architecture firm P+0 has completed a home on a steep hillside in Monterrey, using smaller volumes clustered together to form the resident's living spaces, which was captured by photographer Edmund Sumner. More
Spanish practice Sanchis Olivares used white clay bricks for this home in the suburbs of Valencia, which features an outdoor food preparation area and oven for cooking the city's regional dish, paella. More
Architecture studio Selencky Parsons has extended a Victorian house in south London, adding a steel-framed structure and sliding glass doors that link its interior with a large terrace. More
A pair of hill-like buildings define Ascension Paysagère, a French housing project that Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created on the riverside in the west of Rennes. More
London studio Nimtim Architects has renovated a Victorian maisonette in Camberwell with a warm palette of natural materials and a lush walled garden. More
RMK Arquitetura has completed a residence in the southern plains of Brazil using stone, concrete, and wood to enclose the living spaces. More
Australian studio Adam Kane Architects has renovated a cottage on a quiet coastal street in Barwon Heads and connected it to a barn-like extension by a glazed link. More
Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client's mid-century furniture collection. More
Dutch studio Olaf Gipser Architects has worked with housing cooperative BSH20A to create an apartment block in the Netherlands that aims to provide residents with a "communal, sustainable and healthy urban living" environment. More
Architect Marc Perrotta has renovated a traditional home in Mérida, Mexico by removing a "clumsy" addition to the home and substituting it for a concrete structure with glass and brick walls. More
Architects Jan Henrik Jansen and Marshall Blecher have overseen the careful reconstruction and extension of a 120-year-old thatched cottage in north Germany. More
Japanese architecture studio Office M-SA has arranged a house in Akishima, Tokyo, around a series of exposed concrete elements designed as extensions of its foundations. More
Architecture studio 3dor Concepts used a giant sloping roof to cover all three levels of this house in Kerala, India, which features an internal courtyard garden that can be opened up to the outdoors. More
Architecture firm AB Design Studio has remodelled and expanded a 1950s home that sits on a boulder-studded property in California. More