US studio Desai Chia Architecture has completed the Roxbury House, a weekend retreat for gallery owners that features courtyards for exhibiting artwork and a guesthouse designed for an artist in residence. More about Desai Chia uses charred-wood cladding for multi-structure Connecticut home
Mata Architects founder Dan Marks has extended his self-designed home in London, adding a charred wood-clad garden studio using Japanese technique Sho Sugi Ban. More about Dan Marks adds charred-wood extension to his family home
London-based architecture studio Hyperspace has created a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England, featuring a pivoting door and a charred-timber facade that doubles as an insect hotel. More about Hyperspace converts suburban garage into Dark Matter garden studio
Leckie Studio has completed Camera House in the mountains of British Columbia with dramatic windows and skylights that are meant to frame the surrounding landscape like a camera lens. More about Leckie Studio creates timber-clad house to frame mountain views
Dutch practice Studio Space Architecten has collaborated with local design firm Studio REDD to create their own shared office space in the Netherlands, with a barn-like form clad in black-stained timber. More about Studio Space and Studio REDD create black timber-clad barn for own office
Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. More about Sparano + Mooney positions cedar home over canyon in Utah
Local practice Brown & Brown has nestled Spyon Cop, a black timber-clad home, into the rolling green landscape of the Cairngorns National Park in the Scottish Highlands. More about Brown & Brown completes black timber-clad home in the Scottish Highlands
Alexander Jermyn Architecture has created a lake house in Lake Tahoe, California with blackened wood siding to withstand the mountain climate. More about Alexander Jermyn Architecture clads a gabled California home with charred wood
Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed a single-family residence in Oregon with a dark exterior and interconnected spaces without corridors that was built using American-made cross-laminated timber. More about Mork-Ulnes completes eight-sided Octothorpe House in Oregon desert
Architect Marta Brandão has adopted a "rustic minimalism" style to create a two-bedroom mountain retreat in Arouca, Portugal. More about Sliding screens front Granary House guesthouse by MIMA Housing
Architecture studio Bornstein Lyckefors has created a geometric house in Gothenburg, Sweden, with blackened wood facades interrupted by large openings that frame views of the sea and sunset. More about Bornstein Lyckefors frames sea views at timber-clad Villa Hovås in Sweden
US studio Desai Chia Architecture designed a highly sculptural, waterfront home wrapped in concrete and charred cypress that has vaulted roofs resembling wings. More about Desai Chia creates "winged" roofs for Copake Lake House in New York
Simple forms inspired by nearby Canadian agricultural buildings meet a contemporary, monochrome palette in this remote home by Everyday Studio. More about Everyday Studio reinterprets farmhouse style with monochrome palette
Blackened wood facades, a central cube for sleeping and meditation, and light-filled rooms feature in a California home that was designed by US architects Annie Barrett and Hye-Young Chung for art-loving clients. More about Annie Barrett and Hye-Young Chung create a "home within a house" in Los Angeles
Concrete and darkened cedar make up the facades of a Seattle home that was designed by architecture studio GO'C for a family of eight. More about GO'C creates cedar-clad Sound House overlooking Seattle
CCY Architects designed this home in the mountains of Colorado to be built largely below grade to reduce its impact on the surrounding natural landscape. More about CCY Architects nestles Meadow House in mountain valley outside Aspen
French studio Ciguë has elevated this timber-clad home in Saint Julien le Petit, France, above its rural site using slender, removable steel foundations. More about Ciguë uses steel foundations to elevate lightweight home in rural France
Blackened wood and large stretches of glass form the exterior of a 1970s home that has been renovated by American studio Anacapa Architecture. More about Anacapa Architecture overhauls Vista Residence to frame views of California landscape
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