Spanish architect Carles Enrich has built a 20-metre-high elevator next to a Catalan cliffside to connect the old and new parts of a town (+ slideshow). More about Perforated brick elevator by Carles Enrich connects medieval Spanish town to riverside
Chilean studio MAPA has converted a vacant building in Santiago into an apartment block covered in zigzagging brickwork (+ slideshow). More about MAPA updates Chilean housing block with textured brick facade
This stripy brick home stands among coconut trees on the shoreline of Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand (+ slideshow). More about Coconut groves surround brick retirement home on a Thai beach by NPDA Studio
Estudio ALA created this open-air chapel with a tall brick tower for staff at a tequila factory in the Mexican countryside (+ slideshow). More about Estudio ALA completes terracotta chapel at a Mexican tequila factory
A pair of red brick walls screen the back of this house on the Gulf of Thailand, which faces away from a seaside resort and towards a cemetery where the client's father is buried (+ slideshow). More about Layers of brick, concrete and glass define private spaces in a Thai home
Materials uncovered during the renovation of this early-20th-century apartment in Montreal have been used to add texture to the space and create visual boundaries between each room. More about Anne Sophie Goneau exposes brickwork within Montreal apartment renovation
Irish studio NOJI Architects built this angular extension to a heritage-protected Dublin house with reclaimed bricks to create a seamless transition between old and new. More about NOJI Architects uses reclaimed bricks for angular extension to historic Dublin house
Squares of light shine through the perforated brick facade of this former storehouse, which architect Ryo Matsui has converted into an entertaining space after it was partially destroyed in Japan's 2011 earthquake. More about Earthquake-damaged storehouse in Japan transformed into living space by Ryo Matsui
The facades and walled garden of this house in the English town of Newbury are entirely faced in Flemish-bonded handmade bricks that reference the neighbouring Arts and Crafts buildings (+ slideshow). More about Tompkins Rygole's Woodridge house evokes Arts and Crafts architecture with brick facades
Images have emerged of Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery – designed by London architecture studio Caruso St John in a row of converted and extended theatre warehouses. More about First official images of Damien Hirst's south London gallery released
London office Delvendahl Martin Architects has merged and extended a pair of Victorian semi-detached houses in Oxford to create a new double-fronted home for one family (+ slideshow). More about Delvendahl Martin Architects knocks through a pair of Victorian properties in Oxford
Half brick, half corrugated iron, this house in the northern French countryside by Yoda Architecture aims to meld together the local urban and agricultural typologies (+ slideshow). More about Yoda Architecture pairs perforated brick with corrugated iron for a rural French home
Stones from surrounding mountains and bricks from a local kiln were used to build this house bordering a desert in Peru, so it appears "like a new layer on the landscape" (+ slideshow). More about Rafael Freyre uses natural and local materials to connect House in Azpitia with its setting
This refurbished and extended London house by local studio Neil Dusheiko Architects includes a pop-up screening room for the owner, who works for film company Universal Pictures (+ slideshow). More about Brackenbury House by Neil Dusheiko features a curved brick extension and pop-up cinema room
Designed to look like a garden wall, this seemingly windowless brick house in Dublin was created by ODOS Architects to reference an orchard that once occupied the site (+ slideshow). More about ODOS Architects creates introverted house on "undevelopable" site in Dublin
Kennedy & Violich Architecture has enlarged a 1970s brick building at Harvard University by creating two new levels topped with a pitched roof. More about Kennedy & Violich adds copper-clad volume to the top of a Harvard building
A brick wall almost completely conceals this small courtyard house that London architect Jack Woolley has completed on a former garden site in south London (+ slideshow). More about Jack Woolley's Spiral House is hidden behind a simple brick wall
Wahana Architects used a combination of red brick, perforated metal and slatted timber to provide different levels of exposure for each floor in the PS-26 Office in Jakarta, Indonesia (+ slideshow). More about Jakarta office block by Wahana Architects features trailing planting and an underground passage
A brick wall conceals the majority of this two-storey house that Phillips Tracey Architects has slotted between a pair of heritage-listed buildings in south London (+ slideshow). More about Phillips Tracey replaces a derelict London dental surgery with a simple brick house
Brazilian architect Alan Chu has completed the renovation of a São Paulo apartment, which uses ceramic ventilation bricks to form partitions and furniture (+ slideshow). More about Traditional ceramic blocks feature in Alan Chu's São Paulo apartment renovation