Playful accents including an indoor slide and a climbing wall fill Union House, a steel-and-glass home with an original Dutch-gabled facade designed by Austin Maynard Architects in Melbourne, Australia. More about Austin Maynard Architects adds steel-and-glass extension to brick cottage in Melbourne
Dark bricks cover this house on the southern tip of Sweden, which Lund-based studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur arranged around a lush courtyard and swimming pool. More about Johan Sundberg Arkitektur completes brick house in a Swedish forest
Canadian architect Jean Verville Architecte has completed NMBHD, a white triplex in Montreal adorned with gold windows that incorporates apartments as well as a ceramic workshop. More about Jean Verville Architecte creates "luminous" white triplex in Montreal
A narrow site in Ljubljana has become home to The Double Brick House, a pair of matching family residences designed by Slovenian office Arhitektura. More about Arhitektura builds two six-metre-wide family homes
Rider Stirland Architects has remodelled the interiors of a Victorian terraced house in south London by adding a small rear extension clad in blackened wood and London stock bricks. More about Victorian townhouse in London remodelled with charred-wood extension
Local architecture studio Hooba Design Group has completed an office building for the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, which features a smart brick facade that adapts to different times of the day. More about Hooba Design Group clads Tehran office building in brick panels that adjust to the sunlight
Architecture studio Shatotto has completed the brick Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh. More about Shatotto creates brick mosque in Dhaka to "connect the celestial and terrestrial in a poetic way"
Peter Barber Architects has created a development of brick housing and a microbrewery at Rochester Way in the London Borough of Greenwich. More about Peter Barber Architects creates five terraces of affordable homes in Greenwich
Belgian studio BLAF Architecten used reclaimed bricks to build this house in Ghent with an irregular shape that curves around existing trees. More about BLAF Architecten builds house in Belgium out of reclaimed bricks
Studio Zhu-Pei housed galleries within vaulted red-brick structures to create the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum in Jiangxi province, China. More about Cavernous brick vaults define Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum in China
Zellige is a social housing complex in Nantes, France, designed in a collaboration between French architecture studios Tectône and Tact Architectes. More about Spiral staircase twists through Zellige apartment complex by Tectône and Tact Architectes
Shanghai studio Roarc Renew has slotted two sweeping brick corridors between a pair of disused granaries in Jiaxing, China, to create the TaoCang Art Centre. More about Chinese granaries transformed into art centre with sweeping brick corridors
The rustic materiality of this Melbourne cafe designed by architecture studio Ritz & Ghougassian is meant to reflect the fuss-free dishes on the menu. More about Ritz & Ghougassian uses bricks and Australian wood inside Melbourne's Prior cafe
Dezeen promotion: an Indian library and a prototype house in Rwanda are among the winners at this year's Brick Award, with a university building in Poland taking the top prize. More about BAAS Arquitectura's Faculty of Radio and Television wins top prize at Brick Award 20
The Noor E Mobin G2 Primary School by FEA Studio is a school in the desert near Bastaam, Iran, made up of a series of classrooms divided by courtyards and outdoor corridors. More about FEA Studio designs "neighbourhood" of classrooms for primary school in Iran
Hong Kong architecture studio Orient Occident Atelier has designed a civic centre that harvests water for the small Cambodian village of Sneung. More about Orient Occident Atelier builds community hall in Cambodia that harvests clean drinking water
Krushi Bhawan is a government building in Odisha, India, designed by architecture practice Studio Lotus and featuring an elaborate brick facade. More about Studio Lotus creates intricate brickwork facade for government building in India
Slender grey brick walls protrude from the front of fine arts museum Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga created in the Lausanne city centre. More about Barozzi Veiga designs Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne with ridged brick facade
A linear red-brick wall obscures the textured interiors and art-filled courtyard hidden inside McLean Quinlan's low-rise Passivhaus home in Devon, UK. More about Linear brick wall conceals earthy and tactile interiors of Devon Passivhaus
Hole-punctured bricks bring air and sunlight into this multi-generational family home in the city of Bien Hoa, Vietnam designed by Ho Chi Minh City-based CTA. More about CTA uses perforated bricks to enclose Wall House in Vietnam