American architecture studio BarlisWedlick built this outdoor sauna topped by treehouse-style viewing platforms for a cabin in New York's Hudson Valley. More about BarlisWedlick builds sauna topped by tower for Hudson Valley cabin
Wood takes centre stage in this riverside dwelling in Oregon by American office Landry Smith Architect, complete with black cedar siding and an interior made from white oak boards. More about Landry Smith Architect builds wooden bungalow overlooking Oregon river
American firm Walker Warner Architects has perched a basalt and cedar-clad holiday home in Hawaii on a mountainside of lava rock with an infinity pool that looks towards the sea. More about Hawaii house by Walker Warner Architects hugged by volcanic rock
Tokyo studio Florian Busch Architects has designed a cedar-clad holiday home on stilts with rooms that branch out into the surrounding forest. More about Florian Busch embeds branch-shaped holiday home in Japanese forest
London studio Adams+Collingwood Architects has embedded a house within the hillside overlooking Salcombe Estuary in Devon, England, to lessen its impact of the surrounding countryside. More about Adams+Collingwood Architects builds "inconspicuous" home in Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
A central courtyard brings daylight into an inward-facing, cedar-clad home in Salt Lake City that was designed by American architects Kipp Edick and Joe Sadoski for a ski coach. More about Opaque facades hide interior courtyard of Utah’s Host House by Kipp Edick and Joe Sadoski
Vancouver studio Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers has clad a "contemporary cabin the woods" of British Columbia's Bowen Island in black-stained cedar. More about Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers creates cedar-clad cabin in the woods
Bowed panels of cedar form a chaotic vortex-like structure in Embers, a restaurant in Taipei's Da'an district designed by local practice Curvink Architects. More about Embers restaurant in Taipei features a "vortex" of cedar planks
US architecture firm CLB Architects has wrapped two gabled structures with dark cedar planks to form this house in Wyoming situated to face the mountains. More about Gabled cedar structures form Lone Pine Residence in Wyoming
Long roofs extend from this cedar residence in California that architect Alec Petros designed for a client he met in a bookstore. More about Overhanging roofs shade outdoor areas of cedar-clad Seaside Reef House
San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. More about Slim wooden slats cover "wild geometry" of renovated Californian house
Montreal studio Thomas Balaban Architect has turned a gabled farmhouse in Quebec's Eastern Townships completely white, and then contrasted it with an extension covered in weathered cedar cladding. More about TBA adds cedar-clad extension to white farmhouse in Quebec
Intervention Architecture has refurbished and extended a semi-detached house in the Birmingham suburb of Moseley, adding a garden room clad with cedar battens. More about Intervention Architecture adds cedar-clad garden room to Birmingham house
Christoffersen Welling Architects has designed a house in the Danish countryside for a family and their pet falcons. More about Christoffersen Welling Architects reinterprets Danish barn as cedar-clad home
Architecture practice Studio BAM! has built a skinny house clad in charred cedar in the garden of a Victorian end-of-terrace home in London. More about Studio BAM! builds Infill House in London garden
Dutch architecture studio GG-loop has built a pair of prefabricated apartments in Amsterdam with timber louvres positioned to regulate the levels of light entering the building. More about GG-loop wraps Freebooter apartments with cedar louvres
This multi-level dwelling by Californian firm John Maniscalco Architecture rises high above a San Francisco street, enabling the homeowners to enjoy ample natural light and expansive views. More about Cedar and glass wrap Dolores Heights Residence in San Francisco by John Maniscalco
American studio Ryall Sheridan Architects has elevated this cedar-clad holiday home on New York's Long Island to allow floodwaters to pass underneath. More about Ryall Sheridan raises Wetlands House above coastal site on New York's Long Island
Montreal architecture firm Atelier Boom-Town has covered this holiday home overlooking the estuary of Quebec's Saint Lawrence River in cedar planks that will gradually silver in contact with the sea air. More about Atelier Boom-Town completes Quebec getaway "like a piece of driftwood"
American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners included a pointy chapel among the tiny black buildings that form this residence in a clearing in Upstate New York. More about Tar-coated shingles cover Hudson Valley cottages by Thomas Phifer and Partners