Thai firm IDIN Architects has slotted a studio it designed for itself into a narrow site in Bangkok and obscured it from view using tall trees and blackened wood. More about Charred wood and greenery conceal IDIN Architects' Office in Thailand
Multidisciplinary practice Viewport Studio aimed to reduce the energy required to produce furniture when designing this series of tables, which are constructed from discarded timber offcuts. More about Viewport Studio uses discarded timber to create Essential Furniture collection
A cantilevered upper storey with symmetrical, glazed dormers is the focal point of House on 36th, which Beebe Skidmore has completed for a young family relocating to Portland, USA. More about Large windows and cantilevers animate House on 36th by Beebe Skidmore
New York practice Desai Chia Architecture has wrapped a house in Connecticut situated on top of a rocky ledge with charred cedar and large windows that overlook the hilly landscape. More about Desai Chia Architecture perches black Ledge House on rocky hillside
A "green curtain" and charred-wood cladding wrap around the timber-framed ASI Reisen Headquarters that Snøhetta has completed in Natters, Austria. More about Snøhetta wraps timber office in plant-covered suspended metal frame
Architecture firm Studio Saxe has completed this house in Costa Rica and covered it with dark charred wood to blend it with its natural surroundings. More about Charred teak wood clads Costa Rica house with views of the Pacific Ocean
British practice Ström Architects has completed Island Rest, a low-lying holiday home in the Isle of Wight that is clad in beams of blackened larch wood. More about Island Rest is a black-timber holiday home on the English coast
Argentinian architecture firm V2 Arquitectos has stacked a charred wood volume on top of a concrete structure to form a residence outside of Buenos Aires. More about Black House by V2 Arquitectos contrasts charred wood with concrete
Canadian architecture firm Atelier Schwimmer has contrasted planks of charred wood with pale wood to form a cabin for brothers overlooking a lake in Canada. More about Atelier Schwimmer designs two-toned Chalet Lakeside in Canada
In this week's comments update, readers are envious of the chickens who get to call a Kengo Kuma-designed chicken coop in Mexico home. More about "We need more of this in our lives" say commenters
Kengo Kuma's firm has designed a coop for chickens living at the Casa Wabi arts foundation in Mexico to be like a collective housing project. More about Kengo Kuma builds blackened-wood chicken coop at Casa Wabi artist retreat
Miami's Magaldi Studio used charred wood and dark stone to blend this boxy house "as a shadow in the green surroundings" of Valle de Bravo, Mexico. More about Charred wood and stone create dark house Casa Di-Dox by Magaldi Studio
Hand-charred wooden planks contrast whitewashed cedar in the facade of this house in Washington state, designed by Portland practice Open Studio Collective. More about Two-toned wood wraps Washington home by Open Studio Collective
Hundreds of black glass yams line the interior of this cylindrical pavilion at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), designed by architecture studio Edition Office – Dezeen's Emerging architect of the year – and artist Yhonnie Scarce. More about Black pavilion filled with glass yams examines colonisation in Australia
Architecture studio BVH used materials such as charred wood and weathering steel to help a visitor centre in a wilderness preserve hold up against harsh weather conditions. More about BVH creates visitor centre for bluff overlooking Nebraska river valley
A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. More about Black timber and zinc house with sauna sits next to a Finnish lake
Mary Arnold-Forster Architects used planks of burnt larch to clad a cross-laminated timber house in the Scottish Highlands. More about House clad in burnt larch perches on a rocky site in the Scottish Highlands
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
Two gabled cabins with pitch-black exteriors form a holiday house on Matsi Beach in Estonia, built on the remains of a Soviet-era fishing village by architect Hanna Karits. More about Two gabled black cabins form summer retreat on an Estonian beach
Architecture studio Bureau de Change has covered a Cotswolds house formed of a pair of interlocking barn-style buildings in stone and larch, which has been charred for a graduated effect. More about Bureau de Change covers barn-style Cotswolds house with ombré effect charred larch