The two wings of this house on the shores of Michigan's Lake Superior intersect at an irregular angle, offering a variety of views of the surrounding forest and waterfront. More about Snow Kreilich completes holiday home overlooking Michigan's Lake Superior
Toronto-based architect Wanda Ely has completed a country home for a Danish family, combining the Scandinavian principles of "simplicity, functionality, and restraint" with the local design style. More about Wanda Ely completes Scandinavian-inspired retreat outside of Toronto
New York studios A+I and Unionworks have completed a house near Long Island's Sagaponack Pond with two volumes connected by an enclosed bridge, allowing the site's native shrubbery to grow beneath. More about A+I and Unionworks raise Bridge House to protect sensitive Hamptons environment
Architecture studio Kompas has completed a house and art gallery in Chiba, Japan, featuring a sawtooth roof and a facade clad in black tiles that are angled to create louvred openings. More about Kompas completes tile-clad house and gallery for art collector in Japan
A black holiday home by Chilean architecture studio Elton Léniz is lifted off the ground by wooden stilts to help reduce the building's impact on the earth. More about Elton Léniz perches Casa BB on hillside overlooking Chilean lake
Architecture offices BABELstudio and Bonadona Arquitectura have completed a timber-clad building in northern Spain containing a restaurant and an adjoining house for its chef. More about Caserío Azkarraga is a restaurant and residence wrapped in blackened timber
Dutch office Orange Architects has completed a compact holiday home on the island of Texel in the Netherlands, featuring an interior that adapts to its occupants' changing needs throughout the day. More about Holiday Home by Orange Architects is a timber-clad cabin with a flexible interior
Black-pigmented concrete and black timber battens have been used to create this tactile home in the village of Federal, New South Wales by Australian studio Edition Office. More about Edition Office completes black concrete home in rural Australia
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a small west London home, designed by Phillips Tracey Architects. More about A compact black-brick house features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Local firm Phillips Tracey Architects has created a compact black-brick house in west London, featuring a double-gabled roof that references a pair of garages across the street. More about Phillips Tracey squeezes brick-clad Jupp House onto site of a former garage
Wood takes centre stage in this riverside dwelling in Oregon by American office Landry Smith Architect, complete with black cedar siding and an interior made from white oak boards. More about Landry Smith Architect builds wooden bungalow overlooking Oregon river
Architects Pablo Saric and Cristian Winckler designed Casa SS in Canela, Chile, as a single-storey dwelling clad in charred pine just steps away from a dramatic coastline. More about Architect builds his own blackened pine-clad house in Chile
UK studio Sandy Rendel Architects has converted a Dutch barn at Morlands Farm in West Sussex, England, into a house clad in corrugated steel. More about Sandy Rendel Architects converts barrel-vaulted barn into home in the South Downs
Vancouver studio Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers has clad a "contemporary cabin the woods" of British Columbia's Bowen Island in black-stained cedar. More about Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers creates cedar-clad cabin in the woods
Architect Pekka Littow has used Finnish spruce and birch plywood for off-grid holiday home Majamaja, which is perched on a rocky outcrop by the sea just outside of Helsinki. More about Majamaja is an off-grid seaside cabin near Helsinki
US studio GRT Architects has completed this black house with huge triangular windows in New York's Dutchess County, which has the layout of an open-plan studio. More about Textured black brick props up "beak-like" windows in Dutchess County Studio
Inviting oak-lined rooms lay behind the black timber facade of Fjord Boat House, a lakeside holiday home designed by Danish practice Norm Architects. More about Norm Architects creates black-timber retreat near border of Denmark and Germany
Seattle architecture studio Wittman Estes drew on ancient Chinese landscape paintings and principles of garden design for this black house in Washington. More about Gardens bookend Yo Ju Courtyard House in Washington by Wittman Estes
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features Sylvan Rock, a home designed by luxury carmaker Aston Martin. More about A house designed by Aston Martin features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Black walls, built-in raw concrete furniture and a fish pond in a lightwell define Lost House, a residential project designed by David Adjaye in London's King's Cross, which has recently come on the market. More about Lost House by David Adjaye features black interiors and bedroom with a pool