Australian architect David Boyle chose recycled brick for this renovation and extension of a psychologist's house in Sydney, which creates a double-height living room, a mezzanine bedroom and a home office (+ slideshow). More
Columns and struts modelled on tree trunks and branches frame this extension to a home in Ghent, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle to feel like a continuation of the garden. More
Beams supporting the rear extension of this Victorian house in west London are painted vivid red to create a bold contrast with the property's traditional interior. More
A bedroom at this remodelled and extended house in Porto, Portugal, has been wrapped in cork to shield it from the noise of a nearby school playground (+ slideshow). More
Chris Dyson Architects has replaced the rear of a Victorian house in east London with a two-storey extension clad in charred cedar (+ slideshow). More
A floating window seat, a sunken roof terrace and a basement cinema room feature among the 33 projects shortlisted for Don't Move, Improve 2016 – a competition to find London's best home extensions (+ slideshow). More
British architect Adam Knibb has extended a house in a converted school in Winchester, England, by building a timber box above a seldom-used entryway. More
Alexander Martin Architects has added a three-storey extension to a Victorian house in north London, featuring brick walls and a big window facing out to the garden (+ slideshow). More
FMD Architects used slender lengths of timber to "stitch" together this narrow Melbourne house and its new garden extension. More
Architecture studio Vokes and Peters has created a new timber-panelled interior for a heritage property in Queensland, Australia, and built a new cottage-like extension at the rear (+ slideshow). More
Thick wooden ribs frame this extension to a family house in west London by architecture studio Tate Harmer (+ slideshow). More
Architect Henry Goss has completed a rusted steel and timber-clad extension to a house near Cambridge, England, two years after Dezeen published the hyper-realistic renderings that changed his life (+ slideshow). More
Irish studio NOJI Architects built this angular extension to a heritage-protected Dublin house with reclaimed bricks to create a seamless transition between old and new. More
Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architecten has "stretched" the length of an early 20th-century townhouse in The Hague, and added a large window with a cross-shaped wooden frame to the new rear facade (+ slideshow). More
London office Delvendahl Martin Architects has merged and extended a pair of Victorian semi-detached houses in Oxford to create a new double-fronted home for one family (+ slideshow). More
US architect Martin Fenlon cites the Gehry House as inspiration for the renovation and expansion of his own home – a cedar-clad bungalow in Los Angeles (+ slideshow). More
This London house extension for a gallery director features a large round window inspired by circular voids that appear in the works of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and abstract painter Ben Nicholson (+ slideshow). More
This extension to a townhouse in the Dutch town of Vught by local studio Reset Architecture has a double-height window that provides views of the garden across two of the building's floors (+ slideshow). More
This refurbished and extended London house by local studio Neil Dusheiko Architects includes a pop-up screening room for the owner, who works for film company Universal Pictures (+ slideshow). More
A pair of steel-clad volumes with pitched roofs and glazed gables provide additional living space behind the ornamental facade of this Victorian terrace in Melbourne (+ slideshow). More