Kitchen cabinets made from concrete blocks and removable patches of carpet that function as flip-flops can be found inside this Tokyo apartment by architects TANK. More »

A staircase at the centre of this Amsterdam apartment has risers that are almost but not quite at right angles to the treads. More »

A room dedicated to ironing is at the centre of a renovated Barcelona apartment with yellow doors and a spinning mirror. More »

Japanese studio 403architecture laid the patchwork floor of this bedroom using timber stripped from the ceiling. More »

Japanese architects 403architecture have turned the floor of this refurbished apartment in Hamamatsu into a huge chest of drawers. More »

Japanese architect Hiroyuki Tanaka added diagonal walls and blue lights to this Tokyo apartment. More »

A wooden plank extends through the walls of three rooms in this renovated Tokyo apartment by architects htmn. More »

Glass screens slide back and forth across a timber grid that divides this apartment in Japan. More »

Russian architect Peter Kostelov has slotted a timber structure into a two-storey apartment in Moscow to create two extra floors. More »

A yellow wall of storage divides this Portuguese apartment by architects Pedro Varela & Renata Pinho (photographs by José Campos). More »

Rough concrete columns and beams frame the living room ceiling of an apartment in San Sebastian. More »

Spotlights at the ends of tentacle-like cables illuminate the client's collection of paintings and sculptures inside a seafront apartment in Belgium. More »

A stainless steel net takes the place of a banister around the staircase and first floor corridor of this apartment in Prague. More »

Following our earlier story about an apartment with the appearance of an elegant building site, here's another renovated flat in Japan that appears to be unfinished. More »