Rooms are organised around gardens and courtyards in this northern California dwelling, which Feldman Architecture has lifted above the ground in order to protect tree roots. More
Takeru Shoji Architects has completed a home in the Japanese city of Uonuma, with small rooms suspended above a double-height living space which sits in a "live-in foundation". More
Two stone-walled volumes with grassy roofs are embedded into a rural site in Ecuador to form this house, designed by Quito's Rama Estudio. More
Architect Daniel Zamarbide and Leopold Banchini Architects have designed a concrete house in Lisbon with a central core of local pink marble. More
Wooden cladding and large stretches of glass form the facades of this residence by CCY Architects, which is angled downward to follow the gentle slope of the terrain. More
Low-lying volumes topped with overhanging roofs form this holiday home in the Pacific Northwest, which was designed by US studio Wittman Estes for a family of impassioned naturalists. More
Architecture studio Bornstein Lyckefors chose an unusual shade of green for the exterior of Granholmen, a humble cabin on the Swedish island of Kallaxön. More
A "breached monolith" hides a giant light-filled atrium at the heart of this Indian house, which Anagram Architects has completed on a busy street in New Delhi. More
Herbst Architects has raised a house in Piha, New Zealand, on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland to the beach. More
Plant-covered rooms surround private swimming pools at Wyndham Garden Phú Quốc, a holiday resort that MIA Design Studio is building on Vietnam's largest island. More
In our latest competition, we're offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of New Nordic Houses by Dominic Bradbury, which affords a glimpse into more than forty contemporary Scandinavian homes. More
Canadian studio Burgers Architecture has built a vacation home on Vancouver's Bowen Island with gabled volumes that culminate in glass walls to overlook the region's waterway. More
Christoffersen Welling Architects has designed a house in the Danish countryside for a family and their pet falcons. More
Brooklyn designer Michael Yarinsky has renovated a home on Long Island's eastern-most tip with crisp white interiors, several lights by Ladies & Gentleman and ethereal Calico wallpaper. More
A series of curtains create fluid boundaries between the spaces of this laboratory for communal living in Belgium, which has opened up a family home to be shared by the surrounding neighbourhood. More
Alvano y Riquelme Architects has built an angular house on a clifftop in Chile's wine region featuring an abundance of outdoor spaces that overlook vineyards. More
Matt Gibson Architecture + Design has adapted a heritage-listed Victorian house in Melbourne by "weaving" a modern programme into the existing red-brick shell. More
The size of a standard fibre-cement panel defined the proportions of this simple house in New South Wales, designed by Studio Jackson Scott. More
A fragmented frame disrupts the linear form of this Italian house in Le Marche, which Simone Subissati Architects has designed to immerse its occupants in the landscape. More
A simple gabled form clad in corrugated metal encloses a porous series of internal and exterior spaces at this house near Tsukimiyama Station in Kobe by Tato Architects. More