This faceted extension added to a holiday residence in Spain's Alicante region features plywood-lined interiors and a picture window angled to frame a view of a nearby watchtower. More about Laura Ortín adds "aesthetically disobedient" extension to beachfront home in Spain
A pair of perpendicular gabled structures with contrasting concrete and white-painted surfaces face onto a rear garden and pond at this house in the Malaysian city of Petaling Jaya by local architect Fabian Tan. More about Gabled blocks overlook a koi pond at Fabian Tan's Knikno House in Malaysia
Inspired by Studio North's recent birdhouse-like residence in Canada, we've refreshed our treehouses Pinterest board with projects including a pinecone-shaped hut in the Italian Alps and Snøhetta's charred-timber cabin among the treetops in Sweden. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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New York firm BFDO has replaced a house in Virginia, tearing down all walls and leaving just the foundation, with a larger residence topped with a rooftop garden. More about BFDO redesigns waterfront house with rooftop garden in Virginia
Architect Chad Oppenheim has built himself a getaway on a secluded three-mile-long island in the Bahamas, featuring a living room that extends onto a deck overlooking the water. More about Oppenheim Architecture founder builds Bahamas holiday home atop a sandy dune
Seoul studio OBBA has completed a house in South Korea's Hadong county, featuring brick walls that wrap around small gardens to create private outdoor spaces connected to the living areas. More about The Vault House by OBBA incorporates hidden gardens behind curving brick walls
It took a village to build this barn for livestock in British Columbia, which Canadian architect Asher deGroot of Motiv Architects designed for his parents' farm. More about Asher deGroot builds Swallowfield Barn with help of local community
This week, we've picked some of the most sublime pink buildings from our Pinterest boards – from a millennial-pink office tower in London to a Portuguese winery covered in blush-coloured mortar. More about 10 contemporary buildings that are pretty in pink
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto and Belgian studio AWAA teamed up to design this mixed-use tower complex on the outskirts of Brussels, which will comprise a scooped roof and facade covered in tree-lined balconies. More about Sou Fujimoto and AWAA win Brussels tower contest
A timber-lined loft renovation, a seven-square-metre extension and a triangular room feature among the 30 projects shortlisted in a competition to find London's best home extensions. More about London's best new house extensions revealed in Don't Move, Improve! 2018 shortlist
Kicking off our review of 2017, editorial assistant Natasha Levy picks the best staircase design from the past year, including a huge spiral stair lined with copper and set of steps made from 2,000 pieces of plywood. More about Dezeen's top 10 staircases of 2017
This award-winning prototype house developed for a Chinese village destroyed by earthquake could protect millions of people around the world, claims architecture professor Edward Ng in this movie Dezeen filmed at World Architecture Festival 2017. More about World Building of the Year 2017 could help 100 million people, says Edward Ng
Rural Office for Architecture used locally available materials and a single russet hue to ensure this cluster of service buildings and a rear extension to a smallholding in mid Wales fit in with their agrarian setting. More about Rural Office for Architecture adds row of red gabled sheds to rural Welsh property
Argentinian architect Luciano Kruk has built a concrete residence on the outskirts Buenos Aires, with an overhanging slab and a reflection pool along its front. More about Reflecting pool fronts linear concrete house in Argentina by Luciano Kruk
The dramatic mountains and vast plains of Montana are the next stop in our series rounding up residential architecture across the US. More about Five of the best houses in Montana on Dezeen
These new renderings reveal more details of the plant-covered residential complex that Chinese architecture studio MAD is building in Beverly Hills. More about New images released of MAD's design for hilltop village in Beverly Hills
Architects welcome the UK government's plans to build one million new houses between Oxford and Cambridge, but are demanding a comprehensive design strategy to deliver it. More about Oxford and Cambridge need good design to become "UK's Silicon Valley" say architects
Montreal architecture firm Atelier General has created a two-storey black residence on a hillside in Quebec, with a main living room supported by slender columns to form a car port underneath. More about Pilotis support black house on Canadian hillside by Atelier General
Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to add a glazed terminal building to Marseille Provence Airport, which will link the 1990s extension designed by Richard Rogers with the original 1960s building. More about Foster + Partners to add "missing piece" to Rogers' Marseille airport extension
Architecture firms Elkus Manfredi and Sasaki have unveiled a masterplan to transform a parcel of land south of Boston into a smart city, the latest in a string to be announced for North America. More about Smart city planned for former US Navy airfield near Boston