JC Architecture has converted a 90-year-old dormitory building in Taipei into a contemporary family home, to serve as a blueprint for reviving similar neglected historical properties throughout the city. More
Designer Antony Gibbon has visualised a conceptual house called Twine, which sits under a wave-like piece of concrete within a landscape of rolling hills. More
Original brickwork, mahogany panelling and a new guest casita are featured in this 1950s Texas dwelling that has been meticulously renovated by local studio Clayton & Little. More
Photographer Arjan Bronkhorst has created a book that aims to expose under-the-radar projects by revered Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld. Dezeen has picked out seven of the most intriguing. More
Black metal panels and angled wooden slats cover this pointed house Canadian practice Campos Studio has created for a woman and her dog living in a Pacific Northwest rainforest. More
Coloured skylights offer rainbow-hued illuminations on one side of this holiday cottage that Nina Edwards Anker has designed in Long Island, while the other is covered in cedar shingles. More
Slatted screens of stained black wood surround the first-floor extension of an 1830s Georgian cottage in Essex, designed by Studio Bark but built largely by the clients themselves. More
A stainless steel volume topped by a skylight protrudes from this house in Santiago, which Chilean architect Rodolfo Cañas has completed for his family. More
Japanese practice Gosize has combined an architects' studio with a house in a concrete frame with large openings around a small courtyard with a simple pond in Hyōgo, Japan. More
Fresh air circulates freely in this Mexican villa by Magaldi Studio, which features open corridors, wooden screens and concrete walls that are mixed with tree sap to increase water resistance. More
Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has renovated the curved lower floor of this 1929 home in Buenos Aires to create a light-filled room that opens onto the garden. More
As a new university year begins, we're waving off our freshers and returning students with Pinterest collections of homely bedrooms and alcoves, space saving interiors and storage ideas that even your parents would approve of. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More
This residence in Brazil designed by São Paulo architecture firm Nitsche Arquitetos features a covered veranda and infinity pool that overlook the nearby waterway. More
Apollo Architects and Associates has designed Umber, a house in Tokyo clad in black aluminium-zinc alloy coated steel with a hidden courtyard. More
A trio of buildings with wood and stone-clad walls form this dwelling in Montana by the architecture studio CTA, which was designed to embrace its setting in a verdant valley ringed by trees and mountains. More
Cantilevering living spaces laden with "cinematic qualities" and giant windows will define Studio Viktor Sørless' Dune House in Denmark. More
The family of mid-century architect Eliot Noyes, who was a member of the Harvard Five, has agreed to place his Connecticut home into an easement to ensure its longterm survival. More
BPN Architects has built a partially sunken house "purely from concrete" in the village of Moreton Paddox, Warwickshire, UK. More
California firm Síol Studios has maintained the historical character of a 1920s dwelling while adding contemporary elements, including an eclectic array of furnishings and artwork. More
Architecture studio Bureau de Change has covered a Cotswolds house formed of a pair of interlocking barn-style buildings in stone and larch, which has been charred for a graduated effect. More