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Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
House R by Bembé Dellinger
The latest house in our A-Zdvent calendar of residences named after letters cantilevers from the landscape in southern Germany and has 380 acrylic cylinders puncturing its facade. Read more about House R »
The Grove at Grand Bay
by BIG
Danish studio BIG has unveiled plans for two twisted apartment blocks in Coconut Grove, Miami (+ slideshow). More »
Haus Rüscher
by OLKRÜF
Sloping meadows and woodland thickets are all that surrounds this boxy concrete house in the mountains of western Austria by local studio OLKRÜF (+ slideshow). More »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
Q-house by asensio_mah
Built on a steep site in Spain, the seventeenth house in our A-Zdvent calendar consists of three intersecting volumes arranged around a central circulation space. Read more about Q-House »
House F by
Ido Kenji
A secluded balcony surrounded by timber protrudes from the clean white facade of this house in Osaka, Japan, by architect Ido Kenji (+ slideshow). More »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
PC House by XVA
Today's addition to our daily A-Zdvent calendar is a renovated summerhouse in Spain with a spiral staircase leading to the roof. Read more about PC House »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
Residence O by Andrea Tognon
Italian architect Andrea Tognon refurbished this L-shaped building in Teolo, Italy, by adding the missing corner and it's the latest house in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about Residence O »
House H
by Mattch
Japanese studio Mattch has completed a family house in Nagoya with a sweeping facade that stretches out towards the corner of its plot (+ slideshow). More »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Rectangular windows puncture three layers of walls and ceilings in this house in Japan, the fourteenth window in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House N »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
House M by AE5 partners
A grid of timber louvres screens either end of this house in Japan, which is the letter M in our daily A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House M »
Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar:
l House by moomoo architects
This conceptual house would be wrapped entirely in a plastic insulating material normally used on roofs. Intended for Łódź in Poland, it's the lowercase letter l in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about l House »
Nakai House by
University of Colorado students
Eight architecture students from the University of Colorado have designed and built a cabin in the Utah desert for a Navajo woman (+ slideshow). More »
American dream "breaking down"
as young reject home ownership
Villa Solaire by JKA
and FUGA
French architects JKA and design studio FUGA have converted a nineteenth century Alpine farmhouse in France into a holiday villa with chunky wooden cladding and cut-outs based on the shadows of other buildings (+ slideshow). More »