The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman's hat pulled low over his eyes. More »

Dezeen Wire: Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision reports that architects' enthusiasm for using prefabricated elements has continued to increase since their report on prefab use in Europe this time last year. More »

This time last year our most popular story featured electricity pylons shaped like giants striding across the Icelandic landscape.  More »

This roof of this sea-facing holiday house in Perth jolts up and down to create four irregular gables. More »

French architect Jean-Luc Fugier has designed a contorted timber hut to house a parking ticket machine. More »

These photographs by Julien Lanoo show a French driving-test centre by Samuel Delmas Architectes, which is camouflaged to look like a fence. More »

This corner house by Sophie Valla Architects and Marc Koehler Architects is the latest of 670 architect-designed homes to be completed at a new development masterplanned by architects MVRDV in Leiden, the Netherlands. More »

Visitors can climb a staircase over the roof of this spiralling community centre in Lille by French architects Colboc Franzen & Associés. More »

Takeshi Hayatsu and Kristin Trommler of London studio 6a Architects collaborated with students at Cardiff University to build a timber-framed tea house with wattle and daub panels. More »

The facade of this single family house near Basel by Swiss architects andOFFICE steps back to frame a wooden terrace. More »

This Barcelona school by architects Arqtel Barcelona has an exposed concrete structure with painted vertical bands of citrus colours. More »

Rotterdam studio 24H architecture have completed this office building in the Netherlands that has a solid concrete and asphalt south facade and a patterned timber north facade. More »

Saunders Architecture of Norway have recently completed the first of six artists' studios on Fogo Island off the coast of Canada (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg). More »

Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us these pictures of an archives centre designed by Paris studio LAN Architecture, which has an exterior of stainless steel studs set into earth-coloured concrete to reflect the colour and texture of the surrounding French landscape. More »