Slideshow: none of the elongated rooms inside this curvy apartment block in Osaka are more than two metres wide. More »

Shiny corrugated metal clads the two cascading stacks of apartments that make up this block in Paris by architect Stephane Maupin. More »

Huge window bays project from the fat cylindrical volume of this apartment block in Tilburg, the Netherlands, by Dutch architects Bedaux de Brouwer. More »

This concrete social-housing block in Paris has artists' studios on the ground floor and an oval-shaped opening in the roof. More »

Perforated metal balconies fold like ribbons around the facade of an apartment block in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. More »

These four concrete apartment blocks by Spanish architects TASH were only completed last year, but they already look strangely abandoned in these photographs. More »

London studio Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a housing complex for the western outskirts of Paris. More »

French studio Explorations Architecture have completed a social housing block beside one of the narrowest streets in Paris. More »

Construction of this apartment block with a stepped elevation by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos is due to commence this summer in Monterrey, Mexico. More »

Swiss architects Group8 have completed this residential block covered in pink sun screens in Geneva. More »

This apartment building by Austrian architects LOVE architecture is part of the ongoing redevelopment of the port of Hamburg, Germany. More »

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design multistorey, prefabricated wooden housing for Kouvola, Finland. More »

Japanese firm Takeshi Yamagata Architects have squeezed four  buildings containing nine apartments onto a small suburban site in Tokyo. More »

Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have designed this apartment tower with overhanging floor plates and terraces for Beirut, Lebanon. More »