Argentinian studios Marcelo Del Torto and Torrado Arquitectos have arranged a family home around a group of mature trees in a gated community in Buenos Aires Province (+ slideshow). More about Concrete home in Argentina is arranged around mature trees and plunge pool
A 1960s-inspired window wall fronts this extension to a psychiatric institute in Paris by Local firm Atelier 2+1 (+ slideshow). More about Atelier 2+1 adds glazed extension to Parisian psychiatric hospital
A hole in the roof of this timber-clad house extension in Sydney reveals the location of a secluded courtyard. More about Cutaway Roof House by Scale Architecture has a courtyard sliced out of one side
One corner of this aluminium-clad children's centre in Copenhagen by Danish architect Dorte Mandrup dips down to let sunlight pass into a courtyard behind. More about Children's centre with a dipping roof by Dorte Mandrup encloses a Copenhagen courtyard
Thirteen oak trees are planted in a courtyard at the centre of this residence by Roof Arquitectos, which sits in the hilly landscape outside the Mexican city of Morelia (+ movie). More about Roof Arquitectos arranges Mexican residence around a "forest" of red oak trees
Architecture firm SOM has completed a major new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring an innovative facade of glass triangles and a huge central courtyard (+ slideshow). More about SOM builds new Geneva headquarters for Japan Tobacco International
An exposed steel frame supports the upper storey of this house in Santiago, Chile, which has a mature copper beech tree rising from a courtyard at its centre (+ slideshow). More about Gregorio Brugnoli Errázuriz raises Santiago house above a patio and beech tree
A pair of giant glass doors span the rear of this house in Yucatán, Mexico, opening it to a leafy courtyard garden and shaded pool (+ slideshow). More about Huge glass doors open Taller Estilo Arquitectura's Mexican house to a courtyard garden
Via 57 West, the tetrahedron-shaped Manhattan apartment tower by BIG, is preparing to welcome its first group of tenants next month. More about New York "courtscraper" by Bjarke Ingels set to open in March
Brazilian office Terra e Tuma has demolished and rebuilt the narrow São Paulo home of an elderly woman to combat numerous problems with structure and sanitation (+ slideshow). More about Narrow São Paulo house rebuilt for an elderly resident by Terra e Tuma
Soft indents create hundreds of spots across the concrete walls of this health centre in northeast France, designed by Atelier Martel to offer support and treatment to epilepsy sufferers (+ slideshow). More about Epilepsy care home by Atelier Martel features stippled concrete walls
A group of young Finnish architects have won a competition to integrate two museums by Modernist architect Alvar Aalto – but have been told their design needs "a lot of development". More about Winners chosen for Alvar Aalto museum extension but told to improve their design
Architecture studio Ambrosi Etchegaray has slotted four new homes behind a historic facade in Mexico City, but left enough space for three secluded patios (+ slideshow). More about Ambrosi Etchegaray inserts four homes and three courtyards behind an old Mexico City facade
Four house-shaped blocks enclose a courtyard in the centre of this hilltop holiday home on the Danish coast by Lenschow & Pihlmann (+ slideshow). More about Danish summer house by Lenschow & Pihlmann is fragmented into house-shaped blocks
Australian studio Those Architects has overhauled a house in a beachside Sydney suburb, creating a spacious new living room featuring secret storage, concrete surfaces and a pivoting garden window (+ slideshow). More about Those Architects transforms small Sydney bungalow into spacious courtyard home
This Danish summer house by Norwegian studio Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects is split into five buildings "like a miniature village" to enclose a wind-sheltered courtyard in the middle (+ slideshow). More about Five buildings surround a courtyard to form Danish summer house by Jarmund/Vigsnæs
This house near the French town of Caen spirals around an internal courtyard to provide privacy for the owners in an area surrounded by new homes (+ slideshow). More about Maison Spirale wraps around a central courtyard to offer residents privacy and light
This concrete house in Mexico by New York- and Tijuana-based T38 Studio is organised as a nine-square grid with a courtyard at its centre (+ slideshow). More about Courtyard house in Tijuana by T38 Studio is based on a nine-square grid
Six vaulted skylights form the roof of this west London house by architecture studio vPPR, which also features two sunken courtyards (+ slideshow). More about Vaulted House by vPPR is a London residence topped by six protruding skylights
White concrete volumes protrude from this house in central Italy, which features a bamboo-filled courtyard and a subterranean swimming pool (+ slideshow). More about Architettura Matassoni uses dislocated volumes to form white villa in Tuscany