Parts of the mountain landscape extend into this house in southeast China, which was planned by designer Xu Fu-Min to offer its residents a peaceful retreat from city life. More about Xu Fu-Min completes "paradise-like house" in rural China that brings the landscape inside
These images by Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra offer a tour of Peter Zumthor's thermal baths at Vals, which celebrate their 20th anniversary this year (+ slideshow). More about Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa photographed by Fernando Guerra
US firms Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design have completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow). More about Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design build community-oriented farmhouse in Utah
Lush greenery tops one half of this three-bedroom residence on the shore of Connecticut's Lake Wononscopomuc, which local studio Allee Architecture and Design created as two separate parts (+ slideshow). More about Allee separates lakeside Connecticut house into two distinct volumes
This house in Malavli, India, features walls made from local Kotah stone and a glazed, subterranean courtyard (+ slideshow). More about House with stone walls built by Spasm Design around a sunken courtyard in India
Cruciform windows are carved through the bush-hammered stone walls of this marble-lined church on Mount Lebanon, designed by Paris-based architect Maroun Lahoud (+ slideshow). More about Cross-shaped windows allow light to filter into Lebanese church by Maroun Lahoud
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a team led by ETH Zurich researchers has constructed an expansive canopy using 399 slabs of limestone and no glue, showcasing a "milestone for stone engineering" (+ slideshow). More about Armadillo Vault is a pioneering stone structure that supports itself without any glue
British studio Bennetts Associates has completed a house in a historic English town that is partly set into its sloping site and features a material palette chosen to complement the surrounding architecture (+ slideshow). More about Bennetts Associates creates contemporary stone and zinc country house in Cumbria
OOIIO Architecture has applied varying tones of stonework to the irregularly stacked blocks that make up this house in central Spain (+ slideshow). More about Stone-covered blocks make up staggered Spanish residence by OOIIO Architecture
Daroca Arquitectos has completed a training and employment centre in the Spanish town of Baza, featuring a stone-clad base that contrasts with the crisp white upper storeys (+ slideshow). More about Daroca Arquitectos pairs white walls with natural stone for Baza employment centre
New York 2016: Brooklyn design studio Fort Standard has debuted a cabinet crafted from stone slabs and a chair made solely of leather as part of its latest furniture collection (+ slideshow). More about Fort Standard creates soapstone cabinet for material-focused collection
The pieces of multi-tonal stone used to construct this spa resort in southwest China by Kengo Kuma give the complex a pixelated appearance (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma completes Chinese spa resort with pixellated stonework
Herzog & de Meuron has released further imagery of its curving, stone-clad National Library of Israel, which is now under construction and scheduled to complete in 2020 (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron releases new images of National Library of Israel
This tiny stone cottage by Patterson Associates provides a remote honeymoon retreat on the rugged coast of a New Zealand peninsula (+ slideshow). More about Honeymoon retreat by Andrew Patterson nestles on shoreline of a New Zealand peninsula
Four terraces are concealed behind the multi-tonal stone facade of this house in Kuwait – the Arab state with an impressive legacy of Modern architecture (+ slideshow). More about AGi Architects completes Kuwait house featuring four secluded roof terraces
Behind the aged stone walls of an old tannery building in northwest Spain, Arrokabe Arquitectos has created a small events venue that opens onto a neighbouring park (+ slideshow). More about Stone tannery building transformed by Arrokabe Arquitectos into cultural venue
Architecture studio Morrow + Lorraine has been given the go ahead to build a set of clifftop holiday homes on the Isle of Portland, England (+ slideshow). More about Morrow + Lorraine to build five holiday homes on England's Jurassic Coast
Barcelona-based Cubus Arquitectura has transformed an old stone wine cellar in Galicia, Spain, into a family home (+ slideshow). More about Stone wine cellar in Spain converted into a home by Cubus Arquitectura
US firm Valerio Dewalt Train Associates has completed a stone and glass arts centre in Chicago for a progressive private school for children (+ slideshow). More about Valerio Dewalt Train uses stone and glass to build angular arts building in Chicago
Each stone that makes up this fan-shaped memorial by Koishikawa Architects represents one of the 18,000 victims of Japan's most powerful earthquake (+ slideshow). More about Stone memorial by Koishikawa Architects marks the 2011 Japan earthquake