American studio El Dorado took cues from traditional farmhouses to design a rural dwelling composed of cedar-clad volumes topped with pitched metal roofs. More about El Dorado creates cedar-clad home for working ranch in Kansas
This hillside dwelling in rural Connecticut by Allee Architecture features a copper roof and facades made of glass, cedar and teak (+ slideshow). More about Allee Architecture creates "humane and warm" modern house in Connecticut
Montreal studio YH2 has completed a retreat for Polish-Canadian sculptor Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, with a vertical form that takes cues from the surrounding forest (+ slideshow). More about YH2 clads Quebec holiday home for a sculptor in red cedar and blackened pine
House-shaped blocks and courtyards make up this cedar-clad residence in Christchurch, New Zealand, which architect Case Ornsby designed to replace another destroyed in the 2011 earthquake (+ slideshow). More about Case Ornsby completes cedar-clad house in Christchurch divided up by courtyards
Rhode Island firm 3six0 has converted the garage of a family home to make room for an in-law residence adjacent to the main house (+ slideshow). More about 3six0 creates living annex for elderly in-laws at Rhode Island home
Toronto-based architect Nova Tayona has completed a house near the beach in Nova Scotia, from which the ocean can be heard but not seen (+ slideshow). More about Nova Tayona designs Canadian beach house hidden from the ocean
US studio Carlton Architecture has completed a lakeside house in North Carolina that features expansive window walls, and ample use of wood and pre-rusted steel (+ slideshow). More about Carlton Architecture clads North Carolina home in dark cedar and weathering steel
New York firm Studio Zung has reinterpreted the traditional wooden barns of Long Island to design this house in one of the high-end seaside communities of the Hamptons (+ slideshow). More about Studio Zung creates cedar-clad "modern barn" in the Hamptons
Charred larch slats now cover the exterior of this Modernist house in north London, thanks to a "macabre" upgrade intended by architecture studio Denizen Works to reference the nearby Highgate Cemetery (+ slideshow) More about Denizen Works adds burnt wood cladding to Modernist house in London's Highgate
Dark-stained cedar gables contrast with knapped flint walls at this English countryside house, designed by London-based Jestico + Whiles for one of the firm's directors (+ slideshow). More about Rugged flint walls contrast dark cedar gables of House 19 by Jestico + Whiles
Students in a design-build programme at the University of Utah have completed a studio building on a remote campus in the desert where they live and work for part of the year (+ slideshow). More about Architecture students create studio building in rural Utah using recycled materials
Johnsen Schmaling Architects has created a family dwelling in rural Montana that consists of interlocking volumes clad in charred wood and is topped with a glass-enclosed viewing room. More about Glass observatory rises from roof of Montana mountain home by Johnsen Schmaling
Canadian firm Hemsworth Architecture has completed a factory in British Columbia that utilises the products created within the facility: prefabricated wall panels intended for eco-friendly Passivhaus construction (+ slideshow). More about Hemsworth creates all-wood Passivhaus factory in a mountainous region of Canada
Students in a design-and-build programme at the University of Kansas have completed a family dwelling intended to demonstrate a more responsible approach to house building (+ slideshow). More about Studio 804 builds Kansas home designed to achieve net-zero energy consumption
Architects office Mariusz Wrzeszcz has completed a single-storey house in Poland featuring cedar-clad walls, and a glazed living room that opens out to a spacious terrace (+ slideshow). More about Mariusz Wrzeszcz completes house in Poland with cedar walls inside and out
Architecture studio S Plus One has built a pair of matching micro homes in a Japanese village, one clad in cedar and the other clad with pine. More about Twin micro homes by S Plus One are both finished in different woods
Red cedar provides a golden-hued exterior for this small gabled house, designed by local studio Atelier Kukka for a Tokyo street featuring a Japanese cherry tree (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Kukka's House U is designed to frame a nearby cherry tree in Tokyo
Milan 2016: Toyota has created an open-top two-seater vehicle made out of wood to combat the idea that "modern cars have to be high-tech machines packed with the latest technologies" (+ slideshow). More about Toyota snubs high-tech cars in favour of wooden concept for Milan design week
Both charred and red-dyed cedar clad this warehouse by Tokyo studio Key Operation, located at a cemetery in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture where David Chipperfield is also adding new buildings (+ slideshow). More about Key Operation completes cedar-clad warehouse at Inagawa cemetery
Canadian studio Cargo Architecture used a restrained materials palette for this woodland vacation cottage in Quebec, which has a swing seat and a wood store built into its facade. More about Cargo Architecture completes Scandinavian-inspired holiday home in Quebec