Canada-based designer Omer Arbel has unveiled designs for a series of homes in Washington State made from concrete and covered in wooden balls intended to cultivate ecosystems over time. More about Omer Arbel proposes surrounding Washington houses with "cedar orb clouds"
Architecture studio Akb Architects has created a cluster of silvered cedar buildings on a remote archipelago in Ontario, Canada, as a summer home for a kite surfer. More about Whistling Wind Island by Akb Architects is "surrounded by open waters and expansive sky"
Canadian studio Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has wrapped a lakeside cabin in cedar and topped it with a split gable roof that reinterprets a traditional A-frame cabin in Ontario. More about Dubbeldam Architecture + Design creates "contemporary interpretation" of A-frame cabin
US studio Feldman Architecture has created the Pebble Beach Residence to have a "distinctively northern Californian, mid-century feel" by including wooden surfaces and brightly lit rooms. More about Feldman Architecture updates 1970s home in coastal California
US studio Susan T Rodriguez Architecture & Design has incorporated local materials and energy-saving features into a Maine building that is meant to be "a new benchmark for academic buildings in northern climates". More about Ecology centre in coastal Maine is "model of holistic sustainability"
New York-based design studio Oza Sabbeth Architects has wrapped an L-shaped beach house in cedar and topped it with a standing seam gabled roof on Long Island. More about Oza Sabbeth Architects creates East Hampton house with cedar cladding
Canadian studio Quinzhee Architecture has lifted a cedar-clad residence on stilts for a ski house in Québec. More about Quinzhee Architecture clads stilted "contemporary chalet" in cedar
Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. More about Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline
American firm Lake Flato Architects has completed a family retreat on Long Island that consists of three barn-like structures wrapped in cedar and constructed using prefabricated timber elements. More about Lake Flato Architects looks to barns for design of North Fork house
A sedum roof designed to "change colours with the seasons" tops Heatherhill Beach House, a wooden holiday home burrowed among the hills on the Danish coast by local studio Norm Architects. More about Norm Architects creates cedar-clad summerhouse that nods to traditional barns
Rectilinear volumes of timber and concrete form a residence in coastal Washington by MW Works that merges with the wooded landscape and is "designed to be overlooked". More about MW Works designs Longbranch house to blend with forest setting
US studio Robert Gurney Architect has completed a beachfront house in Delaware consisting of "simple and pure forms" wrapped in white cedar, salvaged barn wood and fibre-cement panels. More about Robert Gurney clads gabled Delaware house with cedar shingles
Local practice Slow has created a family home in Nagoya, Japan, which has a raw exterior of blackened wood and corten steel topped with an overhanging pitched roof. More about Slow uses charred wood to clad "hut-like" home in Japan
Light-toned cedar and brick clad the exterior of a Canadian home by architecture firm StudioAC that is tucked into a hill overlooking a meadow and a lake. More about StudioAC places cedar-clad house on natural ridge in Ontario
A zigzagging plan was used to bring "spatial depth" to the small site of House in Fujiidera, a family home in Osaka, Japan, designed by local studio FujiwaraMuro Architects. More about Intersecting blocks form House in Fujiidera by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. More about 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design adds "bird wing" extension to Ottawa house
Japanese studio Kei Kaihoh Architects has completed a timber-framed storage facility in Joetsu City that offers rice farmers a way to refrigerate their harvest without relying on gas or electricity. More about Local cedar forms snow-cooled rice warehouse in Niigata Prefecture
Sweden-born architect Fredrik Nilsson has completed a wood-clad residence for his family that incorporates Scandinavian modernism and the "bohemian experimentalism of the LA Eastside". More about Fredrik Nilsson clads his Los Angeles house in oiled cedar
Mork-Ulnes Architects has completed the Silver Lining House, a crisp, gabled home clad in black-stained cedar that was designed for an architectural photographer and interior designer. More about Mork-Ulnes creates black San Francisco house to be "laboratory" for creative work
Cedar siding wraps the exterior of the Shelter Island House, which was designed by KoningEizenberg Architecture to exhibit a sense of "deliberate informality". More about KoningEizenberg lines secluded island house with expressive columns