Architettura Matassoni uses dislocated volumes to form white villa in Tuscany
White concrete volumes protrude from this house in central Italy, which features a bamboo-filled courtyard and a subterranean swimming pool (+ slideshow). More
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Archiplan Studio blends old and new for restoration of early 20th-century Italian villa
Archiplan Studio has rejuvenated the interior of a villa in northern Italy, reviving original wallpapers and furnishings, and pairing them with contemporary details (+ slideshow). More
David Chipperfield references historic lemon houses with hillside villas on Lake Garda
David Chipperfield Architects has completed a pair of holiday villas inspired by lemon houses on a hillside overlooking Italy's largest lake (+ slideshow). More
Slate-clad Fontanile Pool frames views of the Italian countryside from the garden of an old villa
Slate-covered walls frame this swimming pool created by architecture studio LAD in the grounds of an Italian villa, which offers swimmers views of the surrounding hills and valleys (+ movie). More
S3 House is a concrete and aluminium villa by Steimle Architekten
Anodised aluminium panels surround windows and doors set into the angular concrete facades of this house in Tübingen, Germany, by Steimle Architekten (+ slideshow). More
EFFEKT's Villa One is a low-cost home designed to suit a growing family
This timber-clad Copenhagen house was designed by local studio EFFEKT to be flexible for a growing family, but also to match the cost of the country's cheapest kit homes (+ slideshow). More
Smart Design Studio adds concrete extension and pool to dilapidated Sydney villa
This Victorian-era villa in Sydney has been renovated and extended to meet the needs of a family with an extensive art collection, while a concrete plunge pool caters for its grown-up children (+ slideshow). More
Villa Willemsdorp by Dieter De Vos features a lopsided gable and walls clad with roof tiles
The asymmetric profile of this suburban house in Belgium was generated directly from the permitted building heights prescribed by local planning regulations (+ slideshow). 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
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
Greenery and observation decks top hillside villa by António Costa Lima
A concrete walkway projects from the street onto the roof of this concrete home in Caxias, Portugal, which is designed to go unnoticed from a hilltop road (+ 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
OFIS Arhitekti creates grid of crosses on the facade of Villa Criss-Cross Envelope
Perforated metal panels create a grid of Xs on the outer walls of this family house in Ljubljana by Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti (+ slideshow). More
Grzywinski+Pons pairs industrial fixtures with pastel tones for Urban Villa hotel lobby
New York studio Grzywinski+Pons has ripped out the "sterile" interior of a lobby in a London hotel to reveal industrial fittings, which it has paired with pastel accessories and paintwork (+ slideshow). More
Kjellgren Kaminsky completes church-inspired villa beside a lake in Sweden
This lakeside woodland house outside Gothenburg features a lofty gabled kitchen that Swedish firm Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture compares with the form of a church (+ slideshow). More
CF Møller's Villa R features a sunken storey for the clients' children
Children's bedrooms and play spaces take over the partially exposed subterranean floor of this house completed by Scandinavian firm CF Møller on the edge of a wood in Aarhus, Denmark (+ slideshow). More
Villa SR by Reitsema & Partners has a parking space driven through its middle
The owners of this brick house in the Netherlands, by Reitsema & Partners, can drive their car up a shallow ramp into a sheltered parking area that frames a view of the low-lying landscape. More
Ian Shaw Architekten completes concrete villa on a German mountainside
A grey slate terrace that extends from the back of this mountainside property by Frankfurt studio Ian Shaw Architekten juts over the valley below (+ slideshow). More
Woodland villa in Sweden designed by Max Holst with a blackened exterior
Swedish architect Max Holst used a traditional Swedish paint to give an all-black appearance to the exterior of this woodland house outside Stockholm (+ slideshow). More
Didier Faustino adds "explosive architectural installation" to André Bloc's 1950s villa
A spiky red wall reminiscent of a cartoon explosion is one of two installations that French artist Didier Faustino has inserted in the grounds of a 1950s villa designed by architect and sculptor André Bloc (+ slideshow). More