A micro vineyard, a rooftop garden and an abundance of artwork are among the features in an island retreat that New York architect Vibeke Lichten has created for her family. More about Vibeke Lichten designs her own concrete Eco House for secluded New York island
Shoraku-Ji is a Buddhist temple next to a cemetery in northeast Tokyo by Toru Kashihara Architects with a stepped concrete design that aims to subvert traditional temple architecture. More about Toru Kashihara Architects designs stepped concrete temple in Tokyo
A plant-filled courtyard and a long swimming pool feature behind the board-marked concrete walls of this residence in La Plata, Argentina, designed by local architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac. More about Board-marked concrete hides patio in Casa Closed by Felipe Gonzalez Arzac
A coloured concrete canopy supported by large columns forms this gateway designed by Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati for the Pearling Path, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bahrain. More about Valerio Olgiati creates huge red concrete canopy at entrance to Bahrain's Pearling Path
Earthen concrete walls, planted patios and pools feature in this house in Mexican state Hidalgo, which was designed by Mexico City firm Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica. More about Concrete walls tinted to match "warm tones of sunset" form Casa Moulat in Mexico
Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects designed House in Toyonaka, Osaka, as a series of offset boxes with gaps between them that allow light and air to enter the house, while maintaining the occupants' privacy. More about House in Toyonaka embeds windows in gaps between monolithic grey boxes
Amin Taha's studio Groupwork has completed a terrace in Islington, London, with a block designed as a misremembered copy of a lost four-storey building. More about Amin Taha creates distorted replica of 19th-century London terrace block
Architect Daniel Zamarbide worked with Leopold Banchini to design a pared-back Lisbon house with glass-walled rooms overlooking a full-height living space, as his own home. More about Staggered floors overlook four-storey void at architect's house in Lisbon
Snøhetta has completed Under, the "world's largest underwater restaurant", which plunges from a craggy shoreline in the remote village of Båly, Norway. More about Snøhetta completes Europe's first underwater restaurant in Norway
Floating staircases connect teaching spaces in the brutalist-style monolithic concrete School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada by Mobile Offices in India. More about Mobile Offices designs brutalist concrete architecture school in India
Architecture firm Estúdio 41 has designed this small, white house in Brazil to be highly sustainable, including photovoltaic panels, a green roof and a rainwater collection system. More about Estúdio 41 tops small white Brazilian house with roof garden
London-based Steyn Studio built Sierra House in Madrid from concrete and travertine with a striking sawtooth roof that looks like a mountain ridge. More about Steyn Studio's concrete and travertine Sierra House has a mountain-shaped roof
Pool Leber Architekten and Bleckmann Krys Architekten have combined 14th and 16th century structures, with modern concrete and brick volumes to create the Kult museum. More about Kult cultural hub occupies a terrace of brick buildings in Vreden
Sanden+Hodnekvam Arkitekter has used concrete and wood to build a minimal cabin on an outcrop beside the Beitstadfjorden in Norway. More about Cabin at Rones by Sanden+Hodnekvam Arkitekter overlooks Norwegian fjord
The concrete form of this factory for Camp's in Oudenaarde, Belgium, is driven by the mustard production processes and Dhooge & Meganck's desire to create a building with "soul". More about Dhooge & Meganck creates "contemporary abbey" for Belgian pickle and mustard manufacturer
This concrete coastal house in Brazil was designed by locally based Martins Lucena Architects to capture prevailing breezes and minimise solar heat gain. More about Martins Lucena uses slatted wood and tile screens to let the breeze into IF House in Brazil
This community centre in Vietnam, designed by 1+1>2 Architects, features a bamboo framework and a thatched roof that wraps a concrete amphitheatre. More about Curved thatched roof covers Chieng Yen Community House in a Vietnamese forest
Monterrey-based studio P+0 Arquitectura has wrapped concrete terraces and staircases around this residence to make the most of its setting among wooded mountains in Mexico. More about Offset concrete boxes form Casa 2I4E retreat for a couple and their dog in Mexican landscape
Austere concrete interiors offset the verdant surroundings of this pair of holiday homes in southwest Sri Lanka, completed by Aim Architecture and Norm Architects. More about Concrete surfaces create "rough luxury" inside K House in Sri Lanka
Open Architecture is building a concert hall in a valley north of Beijing, designed to look "as if a strange and prehistoric boulder had fallen there long ago". More about Open Architecture designs Chapel of Sound concert hall to look like hollowed-out boulder