Slideshow: the cantilevered upper storeys of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shogo Iwata hover above a driveway. More »

The top floor of this periscope-like wooden house in Stavanger, Norway, cantilevers northwards towards the sea. More »

Dutch architects UNStudio have designed a concrete observation tower to cantilever into the sky above a nature reserve in the Netherlands. More »

The top-floor living room of this Seattle house projects across the garden in a twisted cantilever. More »

Here are some photographs of the Moscow School of Management by architect David Adjaye, where four buildings precariously cantilever over a large circular base. More »

Pointed cantilevers project above an office block that is sandwiched between a corporate complex and a slum in Mumbai (photographs by Edmund Sumner). More »

London studio VW+BS have designed an office building for Singapore that resembles a giant periscope. More »

Australian architects Jolson have completed a house in Melbourne where cantilevering concrete slabs appear to balance on top of a bronze garden wall. More »

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Extreme cantilever alert! A four-storey block with a mirrored underside juts out from the top of a Berlin hotel, 25 metres above the ground (photos by Roland Halbe). More »

TWO/BO Arquitectura and architect Luis Twose have converted a sixteenth-century Catalan house into a business academy for a pharmaceutical company. More »

These photographs by Roland Halbe show a mixed-use building by German architects NPS Tchoban Voss, which cantilevers over a neighbouring rooftop in Berlin. More »

This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain. More »

The auditorium of this Madrid cultural centre by Spanish studio Fündc is contained in a bulky concrete cantilever. More »