Black shutters and concrete wall conceal Te Pakeke retreat in New Zealand
This holiday home in New Zealand by Fearon Hay Architects hides from neighbouring properties while having uninterrupted views of the mountainous landscape. More
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Glass walls reveal lush greenery around House NK in Brazilian beach town
Tropical plants, glass and chunks of rock feature in this holiday home in Guarujá, Brazil, designed by local studios Zalc Arquitetura and Rua 141. More
Frankie Pappas threads skinny house through South African forest
Architecture collective Frankie Pappas has hidden the 3.3-metres-wide House of the Big Arch within the Bushveld nature reserve in the north of South Africa. More
Fala Atelier renovates house in Porto with candy-coloured accents
House in Fontaínhas by architecture studio Fala Atelier is a home in Porto, Portugal, featuring a striped concrete roof accented with pops of sugar-pink and powder blue. More
Five New York houses architects have built for themselves
Architects have designed these five houses for themselves in New York State to escape city life, including a Catskills home with concrete-block walls and a retreat on Shelter Island. More
Photographs reveal curved yellow wall wrapping rooftop terrace of Los Vilos House by Cristián Boza
Photographer Cristobal Palma has captured late Chilean architect Cristián Boza's cliffside retreat, which was built in the 1990s and features a winding yellow wall and circular swimming pool. More
Aurora Arquitectos transforms ruined Lisbon building into fun family home
A fireman's pole lets children slide down between floors in this house that Aurora Arquitectos has created in Lisbon, Portugal. More
Omer Arbel Office films concrete tree-like forms that will become House 75.9
Designer Omer Arbel's Vancouver studio has made a film documenting the concrete forms of House 75.9, which is being built on a hay farm near Surrey in British Columbia, Canada. More
Swimming pool cantilevers from Los Angeles residence by Standard Architecture
Three gabled volumes form this residence that perches on a cliff in the Hollywood Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, designed by local practice Standard Architecture. More
Neil Dusheiko Architects contrasts pale-brick extension with charred-wood garden sauna
A slender-brick extension wraps around this semi-detached house in Cambridge, which has been renovated by Neil Dusheiko Architects to also include a charred-wood sauna and gym in the garden. More
Ruxton Rise Residence in Melbourne is arranged around a planted courtyard
A courtyard dotted with olive trees sits at the heart of this grey-brick home in Melbourne that Studio Four has created for its own co-director. More
Architect builds herself concrete Casa Castaños on outskirts of Buenos Aires
Glass walls enclose the courtyard of this concrete house in Argentina, designed by architects María Belén García Bottazzini and Ekaterina Künzel. More
Wavy concrete roof covers weekend retreat in Chile by Ryue Nishizawa
Tokyo firm Office of Ryue Nishizawa has created an undulating concrete roof to span a long weekend house on a promontory towards the Pacific Ocean in Chile. More
Vondalwig Architecture refreshes mid-century house in New York with blackened wood
New York studio Vondalwig Architecture has overhauled the exterior of a 1960s house in Hudson Valley with blackened wood, and updated the interiors with features like white-painted brick and a curved pink wall. More
Peter Morris Architects covers Cloud House in pink arches
Peter Morris Architects has revealed the design for a pair of houses in north London, which will have a facade made up of pink arches "absolutely everywhere". More
Bleached cedar frames apple orchard from Sheffield House in Massachusetts
New York architect Vincent Appel has designed Sheffield House in Massachusetts to replace the resident's childhood home with cedar walls as the "picture frame of the spaces of memory". More
BAAQ divides beachside house into four to take advantage Pacific Ocean views
Mexican studio BAAQ has arranged the Casa Naila holiday home on the coast of Oaxaca into four blocks around a cross-shaped patio so that all rooms have views of the sea in more than one direction. More
Commenters think "Bond villains" might like an underground concrete home concept
In this week's comments update, readers are curious about a concept for a subterranean concrete home, which was inspired by the coronavirus pandemic, and sharing their views on other top stories. More
Five houses where the courtyard is the heart of the home
Charmaine Chan has highlighted 25 recently completed courtyard houses in her book Courtyard living: Contemporary houses of the Asia-Pacific. Here she picks five of the most interesting. More
Zeller & Moye arranges timber house around pine trees in German forest
Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has built a house entirely from timber, which is arranged in five boxes to avoid existing pine trees in Klein Köris, eastern Germany. More