The Shingle House by NORD Architecture is the second completed holiday home in Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project. More »

This extension to a mill-keeper's house on the Norfolk Broads by London studio Acme has been awarded the RIBA Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house in the UK. More »

Here's another house by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects located on a former industrial site in Leiden, Netherlands as part of their series of eleven town houses for the area. More »

These brick-clad apartments in Utrecht, the Netherlands, by Dutch firm Bakers Architecten appear to float above a curtain wall of glazing. More »

This house by Spanish architects Subarquitectura spirals down a sloping site in Madrid. More »

This house by Chilean firm Moure Rivera Arquitectos is based on Euclidean mathematics, the earliest known system of geometry. More »

Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed a house on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands, inverting the typical functions by putting the lounge at the top and the attic at the bottom. More »

Dutch studio Bureau B+B have completed a house on a country estate in the Netherlands with a thatched roof but no eaves. More »

Japanese architects Future Studio have completed a house in Hiroshima City, Japan, where the walls of the building extend to enclose a garden and first-floor terrace. More »

Japanese architects Studio Loop have completed a house in Gunma, Japan, conceived as a hole in which the residents can shelter. More »

Design studio Qb of Philadelphia have completed a house in Philadelphia that features a glazed interior wrapped in a curved brick facade. More »

Spanish architects asensio_mah have designed a house on a steep site in the north of Spain. More »

Architectural photographer Leonardo Finotti has sent us images of a house overlooking the sea in Funchal, Madeira by Madeiran architect Paulo David. More »

Photographer Edmund Sumner has photographed Yakisugi House (Charcoal House), designed by Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori. More »