Salmela designs Electric Bungalow in Minnesota for architecture professor
American firm Salmela Architect has designed a solar-powered urban-infill house that is meant to demonstrate a new way forward for single-family housing. More
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Alexander Owen Architecture adds bold colour and curves to London home
London studio Alexander Owen Architecture drew on its clients' love of modernism and pop art to create a colourful kitchen and terrace at Amott Road in East Dulwich. More
Daab Design converts art dealer's vault into tranquil London basement flat
London architecture studio Daab Design has turned a former art storage vault in Marylebone, London, into a two-bedroom apartment full of Georgian period features that were restored with the help of an archaeologist. More
Studio Saxe nestles Sirena House in Costa Rican jungle
Pavilions wrapped in teak and glass form Sirena House by architectural practice Studio Saxe that is set on a lush, beachfront site in Costa Rica. More
Curving stone walls allow Xerolithi vacation house to merge with Greek island landscape
Greek studio Sinas Architects has built a house on the island of Serifos, taking cues from local dry stone walls to make the building as inconspicuous as possible. More
Fábrica de Espacios strings "big hammock" between two floors of Casa Bosque Sereno
Architecture office Fábrica de Espacios has designed Casa Bosque Sereno, a Mexican house featuring painted brick walls and a large net hammock that forms one of its floors. More
Marià Castelló creates geometric three-volume home on Formentera
Spanish architecture studio Marià Castelló has built a three-volume home with ceramic vaulted ceilings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera. More
Avala House is a steel-framed residence on a mountainside in Serbia
Glass walls and a gridded steel frame define Avala House, which architecture studio Ten has created in a sloping orchard on the Avala mountain in Belgrade, Serbia. More
Nanometer Architecture takes advantage of extra space in Nagoya flat
Architects Yuki Mitani and Atsumi Nonaka have transformed an unusual bare-concrete storage room on the side of their home in Nagoya, Japan, into a multi-functional reception room. More
The Bryant concrete skyscraper by David Chipperfield completes in New York
British architect David Chipperfield's latest New York project is The Bryant, a 32-storey mixed-use concrete skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. More
Emergency housing block in Washington DC has four "uniquely different" facades
Staggered apartments and semi-enclosed play areas animate the exterior of The Aya, a short-term housing block in Washington DC by US firms Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly. More
Mars Architectes creates wooden apartment block enclosed by 1970s housing
French studio Mars Architectes has built a Japanese-informed wooden apartment building within the courtyard of a 1970s housing complex in Paris. More
Graux & Baeyens creates flexible living areas inside updated Belgian bungalow
Graux & Baeyens Architecten has modernised a 1960s bungalow in De Haan, Belgium, by opening up the interior and adding cross-shaped steel supports to the main living spaces. More
Cloud Architecture Studio designs "up to five bedroom" house for a family with changing needs
Fleming Park House is a home in Melbourne designed to have enough room for a family of seven, but to also feel cosy when the children have moved out. More
Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio build cedar-clad lakeside barn
Ell House by architecture firms Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio is a cedar-clad holiday home in rural Ontario with a gable roof that takes cues from the region's barns. More
Moxon Architects remodels Victorian terrace with sunken garden and minimalist interiors
British architecture studio Moxon Architects has renovated a Victorian townhouse in London, excavating its basement level to add an extension and creating bright, minimalist interiors. More
Green wall grows five storeys up San Francisco apartment block
Architecture office Woods Bagot has covered an apartment block in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighbourhood with a green wall that climbs up five floors. More
AM House is a Vietnamese holiday home surrounded by a pond and tropical gardens
Bedrooms and living spaces at this thatch-roofed house in Vietnam's Cần Giuộc district open up to provide views across a pond that wraps around two sides of the building. More
Yukawa Design Lab's Margin House is built around a multipurpose atrium with a tree
Japanese architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for himself and his family in a suburb of Osaka, featuring flexible living spaces arranged around a double-height atrium with a tree at its centre. More
Shifted balconies wrap São Paulo housing block by Königsberger Vannucchi
Brazilian studio Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetura has completed a residential building in São Paulo with irregularly shaped terraces that look slanted from a distance. More