New York studio Khanna Schultz has taken cues from Japanese architecture to create a "net-positive-energy" house in the Hamptons, New York, which features dark wood cladding and a large rooftop solar array. More about Khanna Schultz infuses House in Amagansett with "atmosphere of quiet contemplation"
US studio Faulkner Architects has clad a low-profile mountain house in corrugated Corten steel for wildfire resilience in Northern California. More about Faulkner Architects designs California house around fire and water
Arizona-based studio Benjamin Hall Design completed an addition to a Phoenix house that hides in the landscaping to create a treehouse-like effect. More about Benjamin Hall expands Phoenix home with treehouse-like addition
Local studio Byben has created an accessory dwelling unit in southern California called Offset ADU, which features ipe-wood cladding and curved elements that "soften the feel and look" of the building. More about Byben completes Los Angeles house with sculptural Offset ADU
Los Angeles-based Masastudio has completed a six-bedroom private villa at the Amangiri resort in Utah, USA informed by the region's dramatic rock formations. More about Masastudio completes desert villa at Utah's Amangiri resort
Architectural studio Heliotrope took a "site-sensitive approach" while designing a vacation house in the Pacific Northwest, resulting in a bow tie-shaped plan and knotty cedar cladding. More about Heliotrope tucks False Bay house into rocky site on a Washington island
American studio SPF Architects has included an aluminium skin and an upper volume that "appears to float" over the ground level at completed the Bronze and Black House in California. More about SPF Architects clads cantilevered Beverly Hills house in black and bronze panels
Earthen walls and exterior fins evoking a cactus's skeleton were used by US studio Kendle Design Collaborative to tie the Desert Fairway Residence in Arizona to its natural setting. More about Rammed earth adds natural quality to Arizona home by Kendle Design Collaborative
Denver-based studio Tres Birds Inc has completed a compact, gabled home using salvaged library fittings and material from a bowling alley in Boulder, Colorado, revealed exclusively on Dezeen. More about Tres Birds outfits energy-efficient Colorado house with reclaimed materials
American architecture studio Donaldson + Partners took cues from gemstones to design Fractal-Facade House in southern California, which features sculptural walls and a V-shaped floor plan. More about Donaldson + Partners creates faceted home for lofty site in Beverly Hills
Seattle-based studio Wittman Estes has created a low-profile house separated by a lush garden from an adjacent workshop building, all designed to work with the rainy climate of Snohomish, Washington. More about Wittman Estes "expresses the climate" in Washington house and workshop
US architecture studio Forma has completed a cedar-clad, cube-like house that changes appearance based on angle and lighting on a gently sloping hill in the Hudson Valley. More about Forma lifts Hudson Valley cedar-clad house on angled legs
Charred wood was used by US studio Desai Chia Architecture to blend this home with the landscape, drawing wildlife to the property and enabling the owners to "inconspicuously observe nature". More about Desai Chia uses "camouflaging effect" for secluded Osprey House in New York
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson has purchased a nearby Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house, with plans to restore and maintain the property for museum visitors. More about Mississippi Museum of Art to preserve Frank Lloyd Wright house in Jackson
As a certain prominent American grabs headlines with his home renovation works, Julie Lasky considers why people in the US often make ill-advised choices about residential architecture. More about "Trump is not necessarily being pathological, he is simply being American"
A mix of earthy and industrial materials form the Alta North Residence, which was designed by US firm Prospect Studio to embrace its rural Wyoming setting and embody a sense of unity "between people and the landscape they inhabit". More about Prospect Studio clads remote Wyoming house in timber and weathering steel
Architect Scott Specht has completed an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Austin that is clad entirely in corten steel with no exterior windows. More about Specht Novak designs Austin ADU devoid of windows
Mass timber framing and live-edge cedar siding are among the elements used by the founders of Brooklyn studio nArchitects to create a lake house for themselves in the Hudson Valley. More about nArchitects finishes CLT House with "cladding technique used by early settlers"
From houses clad in reflective surfaces to those that draw on traditional desert architecture, we've selected eight homes and hotels built to facilitate human life in the arid deserts of California, USA. More about Eight elegant California dwellings designed for desert living
New York studio General Assembly drew on Californian modernism for the renovation of this 1960s villa in The Hamptons, featuring pine-green tiles and a stainless-steel soaking tub. More about General Assembly adds "unexpected design details" to modernist Amagansett beach house