Curving stone walls wrap individual blocks in Beijing housing complex by UNStudio
Small strips of clay-coloured stone create textured, undulating facades for the houses in this Beijing development by UNStudio (+ slideshow). More
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Craggy concrete walls surround South Korean sculpture park by Archium
Rough concrete and crumbling stone walls act as a windbreak for the grounds of the Bauzium sculpture gallery in South Korea by Seoul studio Archium (+ slideshow). More
Montforthaus is a curving stone and glass cultural centre in a medieval Austrian city
A strip of glazing interrupts the seamless stone-clad surfaces of this multipurpose cultural venue, which Berlin office Hascher Jehle Architecture designed for a site in the Austrian city of Feldkirch (+ slideshow). More
Page Thirty Three launches customisable Tactile Equations homeware collection
Australian design brand Page Thirty Three has released a range of homeware, including objects that owners are encouraged to "complete" themselves. More
Holiday "village" for an ex-footballer comprises seven cuboids with stone walls
Stone from a local quarry was used for the cladding, paving and retaining walls of this cluster of buildings by DVA Arhitekta, built on a sprawling site in Bosnia and Herzegovina (+ slideshow). More
Flint House features rugged stone walls that gradate from smoky grey to chalky white
Lumps of flint give a textured facade to this English countryside residence, completed by London firm Skene Catling de la Peña for one of the world's richest families (+ slideshow). More
Oak Knoll Residence features cedar and stone cladding to complement its natural setting
Natural stone and timber are used to differentiate the main house from an adjoining guest wing at this property in California's Napa Valley by local architect Brandon Jørgensen (+ slideshow). More
Casa El Bosque is a house flanked by stone walls on the edge of a Spanish forest
This house in Spain by architect Ramón Esteve is fronted by solid stone walls, behind which rooms are organised around a swimming pool and terrace (+ movie). More
Villa in the Czech mountains combines perforated metal with stone gabions
A skin of corrugated and perforated metal clads this villa in the Beskid Mountains, which sits on a wedge-shaped podium with stone-filled gabion walls (+ slideshow). More
Tainaron Blue Retreat is a guest house in a converted tower on the Greek coast
This early 19th-century fortified tower overlooking the coastline of Cape Tainaron in Greece has been converted into a guest house with three suites arranged inside its thick stone walls (+ slideshow). More
Scottish holiday home by WT Architecture masquerades as an old stone mill
The blackened timber walls of this family holiday home by WT Architecture are hidden within the shell of an old stone mill in the Scottish countryside (+ slideshow). More
Villa Wot is a brick cuboid punctured by different-sized windows
Dark brick cladding contrasts with the pale wood and plasterboard interior of this house in Oslo by local architecture office Narud Stokke Wiig (+ slideshow). More
The Cave is a rammed-earth and stone villa in a Mexico wildlife conservation facility
Monterrey studio Greenfield used walls of rammed earth and rugged stone to frame the rooms of this villa for the staff of an animal breeding facility in Mexico's Maderas del Carmen natural park (+ slideshow). More
Stone canopy by a21studio forms monastic pagoda in a Vietnam park
Intended to encourage more austere worship for Buddhists, this stone shelter in a Vietnam city park was designed by a21studio – the firm behind the 2014 World Building of the Year (+ slideshow). More
Golf clubhouse designed by GRAS to resemble "a rock in the middle of the course"
The walls and roofs of this golf clubhouse in Mallorca are clad in local stone to give the building a homogenous appearance that emphasises its angular monolithic form (+ slideshow). More
FCC Arquitectura slots family home within stone walls of dilapidated farmhouse
The white walls of this modern family home by FCC Arquitectura nestle behind the deteriorated stone facade of a former farmhouse and granary in northern Portugal (+ slideshow). More
Rural Slovenian cottage by Dekleva Gregorič has walls of stone set into concrete
This take on a traditional Slovenian cottage by Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti features cast concrete walls inlaid with chunks of stone to create a rugged texture (+ slideshow). More
Construction starts on David Adjaye's spiralling stone extinction memorial
News: construction is now underway on a memorial to extinct species of the present and future, designed by David Adjaye for the Isle of Portland, England. More
Natalie Weinmann's slate furniture "not designed to fit one purpose"
The three pieces in the Samt Rau collection by Hamburg-based designer Natalie Weinmann are made from natural stone and solid oak with their potential uses left open to interpretation by the individual (+ slideshow). More
Apartment buildings by Group8asia clad in strips of travertine stone
Vertical strips of travertine stone cover the facades of these apartment buildings in the Swiss village of Crans-près-Céligny by Group8asia, altering the appearance of the structures when viewed from different angles. More