Designed in Hackney: this week's first iconic project designed in the London borough of Hackney is Dirty House, a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch with a brightly illuminated roof completed by architect David Adjaye in 2002. More »

Slideshow: one huge window stretches across the black facade of this house overlooking the bay in Osaka. More »

London studio (and near-neighbours of Dezeen) Raw Architecture Workshop have designed a partly submerged wooden house for the Scottish Highlands. More »

Portuguese studio SAMI arquitectos have completed a blackened timber house on the hillside of a Portuguese island. More »

Every floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design opens onto a garden or terrace. More »

The walls of this house in Australia by architects McBride Charles Ryan have origami-like facets and folds. More »

French architects Tectoniques have completed a townhouse in Lyon that is entirely black at the front but has three oversized windows at the rear. More »

Newly positioned windows reveal the overhauled interior of a Rotterdam townhouse that was formerly an abandoned apartment block. More »

Architecture collective Cityförster have completed a wooden house in the Netherlands with a black rubber skin. More »

The third completed house in Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture series has a faceted black upper storey that sits on top of the glass-walled ground floor like a big hat. More »

A bevelled cantilever contains the living room of this house in Nagoya, Japan, by architects Studio SKLIM. More »

British architects Liddicoat & Goldhill constructed their own north London home using black engineering bricks and slabs of white marble. More »

The rooms of a black and white house in California lead out to a series of stepped terraces with a view of the famous Hollywood sign. More »

Long, narrow windows cut across the sides of a house in Okayama, Japan, to reveal the locations of internal walls and floors. More »