Entries now open for Living Places Simon Architecture Prize 2020
Dezeen promotion: Entries are now open for the 2020 Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize, which accepts architecture and design project submissions in video formats. More
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Greyed wood clads renovated Montauk beach house by Desciencelab
Brooklyn design-build studio Desciencelab has overhauled a gabled house in Montauk on the furthest tip of Long Island with greyed cladding and teak interiors. More
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Charged Voids draws on Le Corbusier for multi-generational home in Chandigarh
A prayer room occupies a white turret in this house in Chandigarh designed by architecture studio Charged Voids to reference the work of Le Corbusier. More
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Wood Marsh tops curving concrete walls with zinc disc for house in Melbourne
Australian architecture studio Wood Marsh designed Towers Road House as "a sculpture to live within", with high concrete walls that arc under a disc-shaped zinc roof. More
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Adept builds customised-brick housing alongside Carlsberg's Elephant Gate
Danish architecture studio Adept has used customised curved bricks to clad the five-storey Theodora House housing block alongside the Elephant Gate at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen. More
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Office Ou turns Toronto garage into workshop, conservatory and dining room
Canadian architecture studio Office Ou has surrounded a detached garage in Toronto with glass doors and windows to convert it into a multifunctional space. More
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Three cast-concrete volumes form Preston Hollow house by Specht Architects
American studio Specht Architects has designed this Dallas residence with long corrugated concrete volumes to reference brutalist architecture. More
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RicharDavidArchitekti tops Czech home with a greenhouse
Architecture studio RicharDavidArchitekti has built a greenhouse on top of a single-storey family home within an orchard in the town of Chlum, Czech Republic. More
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Ras-A Studio builds Walk-Street House near the beach in California
A photographer and his family live in this boxy house clad in cedar that design-build practice Ras-A Studio has designed near the ocean in Los Angeles County. More
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Explore the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street housing in 360-degree interactive tour
British photographer Rod Edwards has combined 360-degree photography with videos, interviews and drawings to create an immersive tour of Mikhail Riches' Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street housing project. More
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10 housing projects with bold balconies where residents can enjoy fresh air
Architect Alison Brooks has called for more open-air spaces on housing projects so residents can get outdoors safely during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are 10 projects with impressive balconies. More
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Green roof and charred wood blend Atelier Villa into Costa Rican jungle
Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. More
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Slim wooden slats cover "wild geometry" of renovated Californian house
San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. More
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Marc Thorpe designs Case Study 2020 house for Los Angeles
American architect Marc Thorpe has designed this Hollywood Hills residence for an art collector to draw on the modernist Case Study Houses. More
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Flavin Architects adds "creative sanctuary" Modern Lantern Studio to Massachusetts home
Boston firm Flavin Architects has built a three-storey addition for a house in Massachusetts to offer space for a couple to write, garden and repair antique scooters. More
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Contaminar Arquitetos designs Casa Povo to be an "inhabited and humanised cave"
Leiria-based Contaminar Arquitetos has created a concrete house with an angular form based on caves found in the surrounding Portuguese limestone landscape. More
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Zozaya Arquitectos tops Mexican beach house Casa La Vida with dried palm leaves
Zozaya Arquitectos has created a traditional palapa with a dried palm roof at the centre of this house in a Mexican beach village. More
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Six holiday havens on the Long Island beach town of Amagansett
Long Island seaside town Amagansett has become a hotspot for New Yorker’s holiday homes. We’ve rounded up six retreats for welcoming warmer days. More
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White Twin Gable House by Ryan Leidner Architecture is a remodeled Eichler
Californian firm Ryan Leidner Architecture has used bright white paint and lush greenery to refresh a mid-century modern Eichler home in Silicon Valley that was completed in the 1960s. More
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Shipping containers turned into micro apartments by Containerwerk
Building startup Containerwerk has turned old shipping containers into 21 micro apartments for visitors to the town of Wertheim in Germany. More
