A run-down barn that was once used for storing grain now houses additional office space for the Cotswolds-based staff of architecture practice Richard Parr Associates. More about Richard Parr Associates expands own office by converting 19th-century barn in the Cotswolds
Architecture studio La Shed Architecture has built a large agricultural barn with polycarbonate sheeting walls for a farm in Montérégie, Québec. More about La Shed Architecture creates translucent barn to give cows "a better quality of life"
Planks of wood reclaimed from an old barn were used to clad this house in Hampshire, England, designed by Pad Studio. More about Pad Studio clads house in Hampshire with reclaimed timber from old barn
A ventilation shaft for the UK's new HS2 high-speed railway has been designed by British architecture practice Grimshaw to resemble a barn clad in zinc and bronze. More about Grimshaw unveils design for HS2 ventilation shaft disguised as barn
caPale timber partitions were used to transform a 180-year-old barn in Spain into an office space for and by studio Nordest Arquitectura. More about Nordest Arquitectura uses wooden partitions to convert old barn into offices for its studio
Elliott Architects has designed this barn-like house in the Tyne Valley, England, with double-height living space beneath a steep gable ceiling. More about Steep gable defines barn-style house in rural England by Elliott Architects
American studio Faulkner Architects has completed a holiday home in California's wine country with an asymmetrical roof and facades wrapped in weathering steel and salvaged wood. More about Faulkner Architects perches Big Barn house on Sonoma Valley hillside
Steimle Architekten has converted a former barn in the village of Kressbronn am Bodensee, Germany, into a library and community centre with glazed openings screened by angled vertical louvres. More about Steimle Architekten transforms traditional German barn into Kressbronn Library
Agricultural barns were an inspiration for this holiday home in Pullenvale, Australia, designed by Paul Uhlmann Architects and featuring glazed gable-ends. More about Paul Uhlmann Architects builds barn-like rural retreat in Australian bush
American studio Faulkner Architects has transformed a rustic building in northern California into a simple dwelling sheathed in salvaged redwood and weathering steel. More about Faulkner Architects converts barn in California's wine country into minimal bunkhouse
Julius Taminiau Architects has rebuilt an old cowshed to create a house clad in thin timber slats that conceal double-layered openings. More about Cowshed in the Netherlands rebuilt as a timber-clad family home
HeathWalker has turned a tractor shed in Hertfordshire into a house clad in timber cut from trees on the client's own land and scorched using a blowtorch. More about Tractor shed converted into house clad in scorched wood
Texas architecture studio Clayton & Little has built a barn from reclaimed oil field pipes and weathering steel panels, topped with solar panels to provide power to a vineyard in California. More about Clayton & Little builds weathering steel barn at California winery
Belgian studio Morales Finch has transformed a 200-year-old barn in the Scottish Highlands into a studio for a painter and other artists in residence, called Aviemore Studio. More about Morales Finch converts old Scottish barn into artist's residence and studio
A neglected barn made from plaster-coated river pebbles on the outskirts of Verona has been transformed into a new country home by Milan-based Studio Wok. More about Studio Wok inserts home into stone barn in the Italian countryside
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Overtreders W has built a temporary barn from borrowed materials to host a pop-up zero waste restaurant at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. More about Overtreders W creates zero-waste barn and restaurant for Dutch festival
Architecture studio Tonkin Liu has converted a barn in the English county of Yorkshire into a house featuring a double-height library and a gallery space flanked at either end by huge windows. More about Tonkin Liu transforms agricultural shed into "container for books and art"
Several century-old oak trees provided wood for the structure, cladding and shingle roof of this workshop, which HilberinkBosch Architects designed to sit alongside its studio. More about HilberinkBosch Architects creates asymmetric barn using wood felled from own land
US architecture firm Worrell Yeung has pared back the rural vernacular of the Hudson River Valley to create a contemporary black barn next to a countryside home. More about Worrell Yeung adds minimalist black barn to traditional property in Upstate New York