Apollo Architects & Associates create home from stacked volumes in Tokyo
Two cantilevered stacked volumes of contrasting materials form Laxus, a new home designed by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates. More
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HW Studio creates austere white home in Mexico to evoke "sense of security"
Local firm HW Studio Arquitectos has completed an all-white stucco home in Morelia, Mexico, whose hermetic design serves as a haven for the residents. More
Dezeen's top five houses of May 2023
A timber home wedged into a London street and a Japanese coastal retreat held up by a single concrete column feature among May's five houses of the month. More
Madeleine Architects converts pigsty into The Recipe house in Switzerland
Swiss architecture studio Madeleine Architectes has converted an old pigsty and clad it in lime and hemp to create the base of this house and office in Chavronay. More
Dumican Mosey includes red staircase for "sculptural relief" in San Francisco renovation
Local studio Dumican Mosey has completed a renovation of a 1907 house with a four-storey, red staircase in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood. More
Water shortage concerns influence design of Rain Harvest Home in Mexico
Robert Hutchison Architecture and Javier Sanchez Arquitectos include an extensive system for capturing and reusing stormwater for a family nature retreat in a mountainous region of Mexico. More
Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house
Local studio Daniel Joseph Chenin has placed a sprawling stone residence around an 1850s fort-inspired rotunda outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. More
Arquitecturia designs Catalan house as cluster of pavilions around garden
Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. More
Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel
New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. More
Eight houses that integrate swimming pools into their architecture
From a cantilevered rooftop pool in Marbella to a brutalist home with a swim-up lagoon, here are eight houses that don't relegate swimming pools to the garden. More
Single concrete column supports One-Legged House in Japan
A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. More
Rodolfo Cañas likens "protective" Paire House in Chile to biblical whale
The tale of Jonah and the Whale informed the design of this house in Chile, which architect Rodolfo Cañas shaped around two gardens. More
Fuller Overby stacks cypress-wrapped spaces for North Carolina lake house
New York-based studio Fuller Overby has created a home clad in charred cypress that cascades down a hill to a lake in North Carolina. More
"Architects are so sheltered in terms of their sharing of knowledge" says Wendy Perring
Hampshire-based Pad Studio recently completed a post-occupancy study on an eco-house it completed 13 years ago. In this interview, director Wendy Perring discusses the findings. More
3D-printed walls added to abandoned wooden home to create Traditional House of the Future
University of Hong Kong professors John Lin and Lidia Ratoi have combined an abandoned traditional wooden house in China with a 3D-printed structure. More
Agora Arquitectura elevates prefabricated timber home on brick base
Spanish studio Agora Arquitectura has converted a derelict brick building into a base for a raised timber house on the outskirts of Barcelona. More
Daytrip creates calm broken-plan interior for Edwardian home in west London
Warm, tactile materials and rich colours are balanced with a newfound sense of openness in this early 20th-century house that architecture studio Daytrip has renovated and extended in London. More
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs nature-infused Henry Island Guesthouse in Washington
Large openings and earthy materials feature in a guesthouse that architecture studio Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has added to a private residence on a secluded island in the Pacific Northwest. More
Laura Narayansingh creates her own colonial-informed house in Trinidad
ACLA Architecture director Laura Narayansingh has designed the compact Bush House on the Caribbean island of Trinidad for her family. More
Workshop Architects renovates and expands purple Mérida home
Local architecture studio Workshop Architects has renovated a Spanish colonial house in Mérida, Mexico, and added two concrete buildings in its garden. More