US studios Starling Architecture and Emily Lindberg Design have collaborated on a minimalist home clad in blackened wood in the Hamptons village of Amagansett that starkly contrasts the surrounding dunes. More about Charred-wood beach house sits among Amagansett's dunes
Texas studios Smitharc Architecture + Interiors and Erin Sander Design have completed a family home with limestone cladding, a Zen garden and a gallery-like space for the clients' Ferraris. More about Greenway Parks Residence in Dallas features "auto lounge" for Ferraris
Local studio Anonymous Architects has completed a residence with a concrete plinth that cantilevers off a mountainside in Los Angeles. More about Anonymous Architects embeds concrete house into Los Angeles hillside
Cedar siding wraps the exterior of the Shelter Island House, which was designed by KoningEizenberg Architecture to exhibit a sense of "deliberate informality". More about KoningEizenberg lines secluded island house with expressive columns
Local studio LaRue Architects and interior designer Kelle Contine have renovated a home in the Rollingwood neighbourhood of Austin with a bedroom that cantilevers over the back terrace. More about LaRue Architects and Kelle Contine renovate sprawling hilltop Austin house
Architecture studio Ballman Khapalova has renovated a 1980s ranch house in Saugerties, New York, to make it a contemporary home with maximised views of the surrounding landscape. More about Ballman Khapalova completes "frugal and functional" renovation of New York ranch house
In Situ Studio has renovated and expanded the mid-century modern childhood home of musician James Taylor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, into a multi-building complex for two art collectors. More about In Situ Studio overhauls James Taylor's childhood home
Texas studio Tobin Smith Architect has completed a home for an irregular site facing a nature preserve that was envisioned as a "series of shields" clad in limestone and stucco. More about Tobin Smith creates triangular Casa Escuda for San Antonio family
The founders of local architecture studio Only If have completed a multi-storey, slender house for themselves that is meant to represent the potential for "architectural invention in constrained, residual urban spaces". More about Only If designs Narrow House for extra-skinny lot in Brooklyn
US studio Waechter Architecture has completed a courtyard-style home in Oregon that consists of steel-clad pavilions set around a rainwater-fed garden of native plants. More about Waechter Architecture places rain garden within Meadow House in Oregon
Wood and zinc-clad forms hug a spacious courtyard in a California home designed by US studio Walker Warner Architects to serve as a "private oasis". More about Courtyard lies at heart of Santa Monica Modern house by Walker Warner Architects
US architecture studio Mary English and Xavier Vendrell Architects have lined up three courtyards on a linear suburban plot for a white stucco house in San Antonio, Texas. More about Mary English and Xavier Vendrell arrange three courtyards for San Antonio house
Local studio Dumican Mosey has completed a renovation of a 1907 house with a four-storey, red staircase in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood. More about Dumican Mosey includes red staircase for "sculptural relief" in San Francisco renovation
Local studio Daniel Joseph Chenin has placed a sprawling stone residence around an 1850s fort-inspired rotunda outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. More about Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house
New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. More about Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel
New York-based studio Fuller Overby has created a home clad in charred cypress that cascades down a hill to a lake in North Carolina. More about Fuller Overby stacks cypress-wrapped spaces for North Carolina lake house
Large openings and earthy materials feature in a guesthouse that architecture studio Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has added to a private residence on a secluded island in the Pacific Northwest. More about Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designs nature-infused Henry Island Guesthouse in Washington
Specht Architects has designed a symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires in Massachusetts that was created as a residence and a place to showcase antiques. More about Specht Architects creates austere glass house in the Berkshires
American studio CLB Architects has refreshed a Wyoming house it created 20 years ago, making changes that honour the original design and prioritise "durability and a play of textures". More about CLB Architects performs sensitive update of Paintbrush Residence in Wyoming
Architecture firm Ueda Design Studio has completed the Eola Hills Residence, a spacious Oregon family home that takes cues from Japanese design and "serves as refuge from work life". More about Cedar siding wraps Oregon house by Ueda Design Studio