An electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. More »

Slideshow: this underground house by London studio De Matos Ryan tunnels beneath a listed stone tower in Gloucestershire, England. More »

Slideshow: people strolling by this brick wall in London might miss the disguised entrance to a secret office and home. More »

A 1960’s bungalow in Cambridgeshire is hidden behind a Siberian larch-clad extension with a row of gabled roofs. More »

A glazed corridor connects the two wooden halves of this seaside house on the east coast of Ireland by Dublin studio A2 Architects. More »

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

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

A 1960’s residence renovated by London architects Duggan Morris has won the RIBA Manser Medal 2011 for the best new house in the UK. More »

A rounded wall of recycled clay tiles converges with walls of white bricks at this village house in Sussex, England. More »

Nick Willson Architects have completed a house in south-east London with sections of the facade clad in flint, timber and lead. More »

Manchester firm Ian Simpson Architects have won a competition to design houses inside redundant water tanks in Lancashire, UK. More »

This house cantilevered over a river in Wales is by London studio Featherstone Young. More »

Slate roof tiles extend down the exposed north facade of this house in Wales by London studio Feilden Fowles. More »