This holiday home in the Scottish Highlands by Glasgow-based Dualchas Architects features a glazed base that hugs a gravelly slope and a cantilevered upper level that stretches out towards the sea (+ slideshow). More about Beach House by Dualchas Architects stretches out towards the sea
Tasked with designing a house that doesn't take over its whole site, Swiss architect Christian von Düring created a timber-clad upper storey that straddles two smaller ground-level structures (+ slideshow). More about Christian von Düring completes a house designed to function like a bridge
The top floor of this hillside house in Argentina extends out over the treetops to offer residents a vantage point over the surrounding town (+ slideshow). More about Casa 367 sits above the treetops of a hillside in Argentina
Architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled the new pavilion Australia will now use for its exhibitions – an austere black box looming over a canal (+ slideshow). More about Denton Corker Marshall's "mysterious black box" is Australia's new Venice biennale pavilion
The cantilevered upper storey of this house in Katowice, Poland, looks even more dramatic than it really is – because the podium that supports it is camouflaged behind a wall of mirrors (+ slideshow). More about Mirrors emphasise the cantilever of Robert Konieczny's Living-Garden House
These five houses in Córdoba, Argentina, each feature two wings that stretch away from the hillside to seek out the best light and views (+ slideshow). More about Five houses by Carlos Ciravegna cantilever out from a rocky hillside in Argentina
A balcony shaded by steel fins projects from the upper storey of this house in Northern Ireland, which architect and farmer Patrick Bradley built using four used shipping containers (+ slideshow). More about Grillagh Water House by Patrick Bradley is made up of four stacked shipping containers
Milan Expo 2015: the entrance to the Russian national pavilion at this year's World Expo will be sheltered beneath a 30-metre-long cantilevered canopy that visitors can walk on (+ slideshow). More about Sergei Tchoban designs 30-metre-long cantilever for Russia's Milan Expo pavilion
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects stacked up cuboid volumes with different dimensions and cladding finishes to create this library in Halifax, Canada (+ slideshow). More about Halifax library by Schmidt Hammer Lassen comprises four stacked blocks
The slope of an auditorium juts out from the side of this library by Spanish architect Óscar Pedrós to provide a covered space beneath for open-air performances (+ slideshow). More about Library in Galicia by Óscar Pedrós features an auditorium pointing up to the sky
This Canadian house by Patkau Architects is anchored to a rock by steel rods so that it treads lightly on the ground and cantilevers above the Pacific Ocean (+ slideshow). More about Tula House by Patkau Architects cantilevers over a remote outcrop
A stack of large glass boxes forms this biotechnology facility at a Mexico university by Tatiana Bilbao (+ slideshow). More about Glass boxes cantilever from the concrete core of Tatiana Bilbao's Bioinnova university building
Glazed and translucent walls create glowing boxes around the exterior of this holiday home by The Manser Practice that opens out to the shoreline of a sea inlet on the Isle of Wight (+ slideshow). More about The Manser Practice creates a house for a yachtsman on the Isle of Wight
These renderings depict a house designed by Ström Architects for the English town of Swanage, with a cantilevered section that shelters a parking space (+ slideshow). More about Ström Architects designs a country house protruding over a wall
A house in Singapore featuring a cantilevered concrete room was popular last week, so we've created a new Pinterest board that collects together staggering cantilevered buildings, walkways and structures. See our new Pinterest board»
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A concrete room cantilevers over a swimming pool as part of this extension to a postwar property in Singapore by local office Formwerkz Architects. More about Concrete room cantilevers over a pool at Formwerkz Architects' Extended House
A cantilevered storey projects from the side of this house in Gifu, Japan, to create a sheltered alcove on the edge of the garden (+ slideshow). More about Kawate by Keitaro Muto Architects
This house in Pittsburgh by American architect Eric Fisher cantilevers by 16 metres to hover over the roof of a glass factory (+ slideshow). More about Emerald Art Glass House by Fisher Architecture
This cantilevered wooden house by Japanese studio UID Architects hovers ten metres above the forest floor and has a hole underneath to let trees grow up inside (+ slideshow). More about +node by UID Architects
Dutch office MVRDV and French architects de Alzua+ have won a competition to re-masterplan the French town of Villeneuve d'Ascq and are proposing a building that cantilevers over a motorway. More about The Beam by MVRDV and de Alzua+