Canadian studio 5468796 Architecture has designed the concrete and stucco-clad Arthur Residence that is closed off from the street but opens up inside, offering a "thoughtful alternative" to the norm. More about 5468796 Architecture creates house for "modest sanctuary" in Saskatchewan
Crinkly stucco walls and lightweight lilac curtains take centre stage in this mid-century-style Dubai apartment, renovated by local studio Bone. More about "Immersive and architectural" bathroom defines Dubai apartment
Architect Price Harrison has designed a stucco-clad home for himself in Tennessee called Green Hills Residence, which features an open-air courtyard and interior spaces that prioritise the display of artwork. More about Price Harrison designs Nashville house to act as an art gallery
San Francisco studio Ryan Leidner Architecture has based the design of a wood-and-stucco desert house and art studio in southern California on mid-century Eichler homes and southwestern art. More about Ryan Leidner Architecture creates home and studio in High Desert
Local studio Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos stretched out a beach house along a narrow plot and coated it with rose-coloured stucco on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. More about Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos extends pink beach house along narrow Yucatán property
Spanish architecture studios DataAE and Xavier Vendrell have balanced two rows of social housing on a hillside in Barcelona overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. More about DataAE and Xavier Vendrell balance Barcelona housing block on steep site
Mexican studio PPAA has created a grey stucco house with open-air terraces that allows residents to reconnect with the forest of Valle de Bravo, Mexico. More about PPAA arranges terraces around house in a Mexican forest
Mexican studios Espacio 18 Arquitectura and Cueto Arquitectura have renovated a narrow infill property in Oaxaca, Mexico to create apartments within a space built up with different styles over the years. More about Espacio 18 and Cueto renovate historic Oaxaca apartment building
Local studio Arkitito Arquitetura has created a trapezoidal, stucco-clad house on a triangular garden lot in São Paulo, Brazil. More about Arkitito Arquitectura places São Paulo house between terraced gardens
US studio PJCArchitecture has collaborated with local studio Juan Pablo Ribadeneira Mora Arquitecto on a two-toned house with a brick base in Quito, Ecuador. More about Brick and stucco meet for "harmonious flow" of Quito house
Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has added a blocky extension with light, wood-filled interiors to a Grade II-listed villa in north London. More about Proctor & Shaw transforms Heath House in London into "sanctuary for wellbeing"
Architecture studio Spacemen has designed the Bar Kar restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to resemble the earth ovens historically used to cook and smoke food in the ground. More about Cavernous restaurant by Spacemen feels like "stepping into a giant pot"
US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica, California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. More about Inaba Williams creates mirrored stucco-clad residences in California
US architecture studio Kendle Design Collaborative has designed an accessory building for a family home with a metal roof extension meant to frame an outdoor garden while "celebrating the Arizona sky". More about Kendle Design clads Arizona "micro building" in weathering steel
Guadalajara-based architect Moises Sánchez has created a stucco-clad, cube-shaped holiday home shaded by a large tree in western Mexico. More about Moises Sánchez uses local construction methods for cubic Mexican house
US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. More about Schaum/Shieh "gently" conforms house to contours of steep Virginia site
US studio Anacapa Architecture has transformed an early 1900s, stucco-clad building that was formerly closed off to the public into a welcoming hotel filled with compact rooms and handcrafted decor. More about Anacapa Architecture converts historic building into Drift Santa Barbara hotel
Local studio Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. More about Heryco blends "history and modernity" in renovation of pink apartment block
New York-based studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has created a grey stucco house with a Z-shaped plan and an upward-pitched roof in Houston. More about O'Neill McVoy designs Houston house as "mini-manifesto against McMansions"
Architecture firm And And And Studio has created a stucco-clad, single-level home for a family of six that is raised up to create a "treehouse-like effect". More about And And And Studio lifts Silver Lake Tree House above Los Angeles site