Portuguese studio Bak Gordon Arquitectos has designed two concrete structures separated by a courtyard for a house on a narrow plot in Lisbon. More about Bak Gordon inserts green-tiled concrete house on sloping street in Lisbon
Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles, complete with a crane in the kitchen and an accessory dwelling unit. More about John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house
Local studio HGR Arquitectos has completed a triangular concrete apartment block with a rounded corner meant to stand up against earthquakes in Mexico City. More about HGR Arquitectos reinforces triangular concrete housing against seismic activity
Architecture studio Ksa Studený designed this trapezoidal concrete and glass house to frame views of a forest near the village of Pernek in Slovakia. More about Ksa Studený completes trapezoidal concrete home overlooking Slovakian forest
Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy has cut circular openings into the slanted ceilings of a series of dwellings in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, to create semi-exposed pools and gardens. More about Ludwig Godefroy creates "habitable gardens" using massive skylights in Mexico
Local studio Anonymous Architects has completed a residence with a concrete plinth that cantilevers off a mountainside in Los Angeles. More about Anonymous Architects embeds concrete house into Los Angeles hillside
Dark-coloured concrete characterises Jae Haala, an angular holiday home that Java studio Wiyoga Nurdiansyah Architects has created in a forested valley in Indonesia. More about "Boxy and mysterious" villa nestles into forested valley in Indonesia
London-based practice Studio Weave used pink concrete tiles to clad a clifftop house that overlooks the sea in South Korea. More about Studio Weave nestles pink Seosaeng House into South Korean hillside
In this video produced for Holcim by Dezeen, Norman Foster introduces a housing prototype for displaced people that the Norman Foster Foundation developed with the building materials company and unveiled at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Norman Foster Foundation and Holcim reveal concrete emergency housing prototype
Local architecture studio Workshop Architects has renovated a Spanish colonial house in Mérida, Mexico, and added two concrete buildings in its garden. More about Workshop Architects renovates and expands purple Mérida home
Raw concrete surfaces are softened by timber and plenty of daylight inside these Mexican houses, rounded up here as part of our latest lookbook. More about Eight brutalist Mexican interiors that prove concrete doesn't have to feel cold
Local architecture practice FMT Estudio has completed two concrete houses on either end of a narrow plot in Mérida, Mexico, connected by a central courtyard. More about FMT Estudio connects two Mexican dwellings with swimming pool courtyard
Challenging site constraints informed the angular shape of this concrete house named Villa MKZ, designed by Japanese studio Takeshi Hirobe Architects. More about Takeshi Hirobe Architects designs Japanese house to "dance around" complex site
Mexican studio Espacio 18 Arquitectura has balanced an expansive concrete house designed like a "rock carved to create a sculpture" on a hillside in Oaxaca. More about Espacio 18 Arquitectura cantilevers a sculptural concrete house in Oaxaca
Multidisciplinary studio Design ni Dukaan has completed a house in Gujarat, India, with a board-formed concrete exterior walls that wrap the home and define courtyard spaces. More about Design Ni Dukaan wraps "citadel-like" house in curved concrete wall
Mexican practice Espacio 18 Arquitectura has designed a concrete holiday home in Tulum with a circular window in one of the ceilings that reveals a swimming pool. More about Brutalist-style villa by Espacio 18 embodies "natural beauty" of Yucatán Peninsula caves
Mexican studio Zozaya Arquitectos has designed a concrete seaside house defined by a calming water feature on the Pacific coast. More about Zozaya Arquitectos orients Mexican beach house around reflecting pool
An angular wall of exposed concrete informed by origami wraps this courtyard home in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by local studio Atelier Gratia to be a "sanctuary" from the surrounding city. More about Atelier Gratia designs angular concrete courtyard house in Taiwan
Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy designed a brutalist concrete holiday home in a Mexican pine forest called Casa Alférez. More about Ludwig Godefroy creates brutalist cube-shaped home in Mexico
Undulated concrete walls form the lower portion of this Californian house by architecture studio Laney LA, while its top half is wrapped in glass and cedar. More about Scalloped concrete walls anchor California house by Laney LA