In a year when the coronavirus pandemic caused travel restrictions, cabins offered a welcome sense of escapism. As part of our review of 2020, here are Dezeen's top 10 cabins, including one made from infested wood and another with a titanium roof. More
Olson Kundig Architects principal Alan Maskin has renovated and extended a beach cabin from 1938 in Washington State, turning it into his wood-lined retreat. More
False Bay Writer's Cabin by architecture firm Olson Kundig in the USA has three glass sides surrounded by decks that double as shutters when pulled up like a drawbridge. More
Cabin-design company Den has launched a flat-packed, kit-of-parts for a steeply pitched cabin, known as an A-frame, that can be assembled in just a few days. More
Architectural designer Caspar Schols has developed the design for a garden shed with moving walls that he built for his parents into a flat-pack cabin for living and for working. More
Studio Puisto has designed an adaptable, prefabricated cabin that can be built anywhere and used as anything from a garden office to a remote off-grid retreat. More
Chinese architecture studios Wiki World and Advanced Architecture Lab have designed an array of 18 timber cabins clad in mirrors for a hotel in Yichang, Hubei province. More
Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter has built a wooden cabin in Telemark, Norway, which has an accessible stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint and winter ski jump. More
A slanted metal roof and deck help to shelter this cabin in Argentina, designed by STC Arquitectos using reclaimed materials like scrap metal and oil pipes. More
Bordeaux studio A6A has created Heva, a black Douglas fir-clad cabin designed for off-grid living, in Ustaritz, south-west France. More
Canadian architecture firm Atelier Schwimmer has contrasted planks of charred wood with pale wood to form a cabin for brothers overlooking a lake in Canada. More
Mexican architecture studio Weber Arquitectos has used grey volcanic stone to construct five cabins on a forested site in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. More
A slanted window punctures the charred-wood walls of this sculptural office designed by prefab housing designers Koto. More
Italian architects Massimo Gnocchi and Paolo Danesi designed Mountain Refuge as a prefabricated cabin-style micro-home built from plywood. More
Bruny Island Cabin is a wood-lined off-grid holiday home in Tasmania designed by architecture studio Maguire + Devin featuring only built-in furniture. More
Architecture studio Snøhetta has built a group of timber cabins overlooking the Jostedalen glacier in Norway to replace accommodation buildings that were destroyed by a cyclone. More
Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed Skigard Hytte, a modern mountain cabin raised on pillars and made entirely from wood. More
Amsterdam studio Crafted Works has designed a timber cabin in the Netherlands, which has a structural frame that is exposed throughout its interior. More
US architecture studio Hannah has used 3D-printed concrete stilts to elevate this tiny off-grid cabin in Upstate New York, which has walls made from infested ash wood. More
A gabled titanium roof and wooden walls form this white house that architecture studio Naturehumaine has perched on a wooded site in Québec, Canada. More