Studio Bower creates gabled annexe for Washington DC residence
Architecture firm Studio Bower has created a wood-clad extension for a 1940s cottage that preserves the house's charm and has interiors like a "generous treehouse". More
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McLeod Bovell uses cantilevers in "fortress-like" West Vancouver house
Local design studio McLeod Bovell has completed a seaside home with a dramatic cantilever and multiple lightwells in West Vancouver, British Columbia. More
Robocoop conceals Rome palace restoration work with "illusionary infill facade"
Italian studio Robocoop has created a temporary facade to blend into its historic surroundings and hide ongoing construction on a palace courtyard restoration in Rome. More
Dezeen Awards China Interiors project of the year "preserves built history"
A courtyard house converted into a fragrance store by FOG Architecture has won Dezeen Awards China 2023 Interiors project of the year, as seen in this movie produced by Dezeen. More
The Bloom Architects tops Tile House with inverted roof in Vietnam
Red tiles envelop the roof and walls of this family home, which Vietnamese studio The Bloom Architects has arranged around a central courtyard in the city of Bao Loc. More
PSLA Architekten tops urban townhouse with cascading roof terraces
Austrian studio PSLA Architekten has created a contemporary townhouse in Vienna's historic seventh district as a "hybrid genesis between house and garden". More
CCA runs arched colonnade through community centre in Mexico
Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica has created a concrete community centre defined by a series of arches in Jálpa de Mendez, Mexico. More
Coffey Architects references industrial history for London housing and arts spaces
London studio Coffey Architects has completed The Tannery, a mixed-use project in Bermondsey that combines housing, artist's studios and a gallery around a central courtyard. More
Neri&Hu wraps South China Sea wellness retreat around "water courtyard"
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the Sanya Wellness Retreat hotel on the Chinese island of Hainan, with public spaces arranged around a central water courtyard. More
Práctica Arquitectura splits red infill home in Mexico with central courtyard
Local studio Práctica Arquitectura has elevated a concrete infill house with a red finish outside of Monterrey, Mexico. More
Bak Gordon inserts green-tiled concrete house on sloping street in Lisbon
Portuguese studio Bak Gordon Arquitectos has designed two concrete structures separated by a courtyard for a house on a narrow plot in Lisbon. More
Sergison Bates Architects creates courtyard housing block in south London
A planted communal courtyard designed to promote "neighbourliness" and grey brick define this infill housing block by Sergison Bates Architects in Clapham, London. More
Elliott Architects arranges textural Hushh House around courtyards
Blocky volumes clad in roughly textured materials surround a series of courtyards at this home, which Northumberland studio Elliott Architects has created in a village in Yorkshire. More
Ludwig Godefroy creates "habitable gardens" using massive skylights in Mexico
Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy has cut circular openings into the slanted ceilings of a series of dwellings in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, to create semi-exposed pools and gardens. More
Greenway Parks Residence in Dallas features "auto lounge" for Ferraris
Texas studios Smitharc Architecture + Interiors and Erin Sander Design have completed a family home with limestone cladding, a Zen garden and a gallery-like space for the clients' Ferraris. More
Operable screens wrap beachfront house in Hawaii by Olson Kundig
US studio Olson Kundig Architects has utilised a variety of wooden storm shutters and deep roof overhangs for a Hawaiian holiday home called Hale Napo'o. More
Aga Khan Academy Dhaka wraps around "friendly outdoor learning areas"
Decorative brick-clad buildings fold around courtyards at the Aga Khan Academy Dhaka, a boarding school in Bangladesh designed by British practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with architecture studio Shatotto Architecture for Green Living. More
Studio Other Spaces encloses Buffalo museum courtyard in "canopy of glass and mirrors"
Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann's firm Studio Other Spaces has created a sculptural work called Common Sky to enclose an open-air courtyard at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. More
Courtyard lies at heart of Santa Monica Modern house by Walker Warner Architects
Wood and zinc-clad forms hug a spacious courtyard in a California home designed by US studio Walker Warner Architects to serve as a "private oasis". More
Mary English and Xavier Vendrell arrange three courtyards for San Antonio house
US architecture studio Mary English and Xavier Vendrell Architects have lined up three courtyards on a linear suburban plot for a white stucco house in San Antonio, Texas. More