Uruguayan architecture firm Cotignola Staricco Tobler has sandwiched an all-white office building between shipping warehouses in the country's capital, and included two pebbled courtyards on its second level. More about Cotignola Staricco Tobler slots white office between warehouses in Montevideo
Mexican firm Desnivel Arquitectos has completed a residence that includes a large living area with no walls, and a covered walkway that overlooks a lush garden and a swimming pool. More about Steel colonnades create sheltered outdoor spaces at Mexican hacienda
Brickwork panels alternate with gaps up the sides of this housing project in Mexico City, which local firm HGR Arquitectos has organised around a line of patios at the centre. More about HGR Arquitectos uses orange bricks to build Mexico City apartment block
Seattle architecture firm MW Works has helped a couple to self-build this home, which is organised around a courtyard and clad in weathered reclaimed timber. More about Courtyard provides focal point for Seattle home by MW Works
One of the founders of 31/44 Architects has built his own London home, which is arranged around three courtyards to make it easy for domestic life to spill outdoors. More about 31/44 Architects builds grey-brick house around three small courtyards in London
Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete and her firm AL_A have completed a new porcelain-tiled entrance and underground exhibition hall at the Victoria and Albert Museum. More about AL_A completes tile-covered entrance and subterranean gallery for London's V&A museum
An oval stone wall encloses brick and timber volumes that offer varying levels of privacy and connection with the gardens at the centre of this courthouse in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, by Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. More about Gardens separate rooms wrapped in brick, stone and wood at Mexican courthouse
A gabled wall provides the entrance to this holiday home in a Swedish coastal village, which also features rooms arranged around a garden and cherry tree. More about Maka Arkitektur completes contemporary Swedish courtyard house
A courtyard with undulating glass walls descends from the base of the stilted wooden structure of this Maggie's Centre for cancer care in Oldham, England, which has been designed by London studio dRMM. More about dRMM builds Oldham Maggie's Centre around a courtyard with rippling glass walls
Rooms topped with chimney-like roofs surround a secluded courtyard to from this house in Kent, England, which takes its angular form and russet colouring from the area's hop-drying oast towers. More about James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell model Kentish country house on traditional hop kilns
Beijing practice Arch Studio has renovated a traditional courtyard house in the Chinese capital, adding grey-brick paving that flows from the floor of the outdoor space to form internal walls and roofs. More about Undulating paving connects inside and outside spaces at Twisting Courtyard house
British firm Guard Tillman Pollock punched a hole through a detached Edwardian property in north London to create a driveway leading to this modernist-inspired house that faces onto a secluded garden. More about Guard Tillman Pollock slots modernist-styled Holm House behind Highgate residence
Ming Gu Design has grafted a glazed meditation area onto this historic home in Nanjing, China, which projects out to overhang a central courtyard. More about Glazed meditation room overlooks traditional courtyard from Nanjing home
Australian studio Make Architecture has added a brick extension to a Victorian cottage in Melbourne that bounds the street on one side and curves around a secluded courtyard on the other. More about Perimeter House encloses private courtyard and plunge pool in Melbourne
Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. More about Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments
A skinny townhouse in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung has been transformed into a brightly lit cafe and furniture store by local studio HAO Design. More about HAO Design converts 1980s townhouse into furniture shop and cafe in Taiwan
Colourful metal cladding extends across the front of this daycare centre in the Finnish city of Espoo, which encloses a secluded playground to its rear. More about AFKS wraps horseshoe-shaped kindergarten in stripy multicoloured metal cladding
A screen of decorative terracotta blockwork fronts this apartment block in Ho Chi Minh City by Sanuki Daisuke Architects, which features planted courtyards in its centre. More about Ho Chi Minh apartment block features patterned terracotta facade and garden pockets
Patients of Hille Melbye's psychiatric centre in Oslo are welcomed by a decorative brick building, which is surrounded by landscaped courtyards designed to act as an extension of therapy. More about Oslo psychiatric centre by Hille Melbye features planted courtyards and decorative brickwork
A pair of buildings with pitched roofs and white-washed exteriors form this home in rural Vermont by design-build studio Birdseye Design. More about Two white volumes frame central courtyard of Vermont home by Birdseye Design