Architecture studio GRAS has transformed a derelict cottage in the Scottish Highlands into a pared-back contemporary holiday home by slotting a series of oak-lined "boxes" inside the existing stone structure. More about Kyle House is a remote Scottish holiday home with a "monastically simple" interior
A humble cottage on the edge of a lake in the Scottish Highlands has been named as the UK's best house of 2018. More about "Breathtaking" off-grid Lochside House wins RIBA House of the Year 2018
Australian studio John Wardle Architects has painstakingly restored an original weatherboard cottage in a remote bay on Bruny Island in Tasmania. More about John Wardle Architects restores and extends Captain Kelly's forgotten Tasmanian cottage
Fashion designer Sun Min and architect Christian Taeubert have renovated a neglected cottage set around a courtyard in rural China. More about Renovated cottage in rural China retains original rustic features
A slide and bright yellow ladder are among the playful interventions employed by Alter & Company in its modernisation of a farm in Surrey, England. More about Alter & Company creates playful extension to historic farm cottage
HOLA Design has completed a gabled lakeside cottage in southern Poland, which incorporates large windows that look out towards two nearby castles. More about HOLA Design builds gabled lakeside cottage in Poland
Montreal architect Anik Péloquin has built an angular extension to a quaint cottage in Canada, with an off-kilter roof and white-washed interiors. More about Anik Péloquin creates contemporary addition for historic cottage in rural Quebec
US firm HGA Architects and Engineers took cues from Cape Cod-style homes while conceiving a series of cabins for world-renowned musicians spending the summer in rural New England. More about HGA creates cedar-clad cottages for classical musicians in Vermont
The residents of this seaside home in Australia can easily cook inside or out, thanks to a kitchen and dining space that opens onto a sculptural barbecue courtyard. More about Wolveridge Architects builds Courtyard Cottage on Australia's scenic Mornington Peninsula
Canadian firm Ian MacDonald Architect has completed a family retreat in southern Ontario that cantilevers over a rocky hillside and is designed to be mostly hidden from view (+ slideshow). More about Ian MacDonald hides island cottage in Ontario within a pine forest
The brick walls of this single-storey house in the Belgian town of Nazareth are interrupted by a series of floor-to-ceiling windows and a recessed opening used for storing logs (+ slideshow). More about Wim Heylen's brick and concrete bungalow references traditional countryside cottages
German studio Format Elf Architekten has designed three holiday cottages for a resort in the Bavarian countryside that resemble archetypal pitched-roof barns (+ slideshow). More about Format Elf Architekten adds blackened timber cottages to a rural German resort
Patkau Architects of Vancouver have won a competition to design six houses in the nature reserve surrounding Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. More about Cottages at Fallingwater by Patkau Architects