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
A planted communal courtyard designed to promote "neighbourliness" and grey brick define this infill housing block by Sergison Bates Architects in Clapham, London. More about Sergison Bates Architects creates courtyard housing block in south London
Blocky volumes clad in roughly textured materials surround a series of courtyards at this home, which Northumberland studio Elliott Architects has created in a village in Yorkshire. More about Elliott Architects arranges textural Hushh House around courtyards
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
Texas studios Smitharc Architecture + Interiors and Erin Sander Design have completed a family home with limestone cladding, a Zen garden and a gallery-like space for the clients' Ferraris. More about Greenway Parks Residence in Dallas features "auto lounge" for Ferraris
US studio Olson Kundig Architects has utilised a variety of wooden storm shutters and deep roof overhangs for a Hawaiian holiday home called Hale Napo'o. More about Operable screens wrap beachfront house in Hawaii by Olson Kundig
Decorative brick-clad buildings fold around courtyards at the Aga Khan Academy Dhaka, a boarding school in Bangladesh designed by British practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with architecture studio Shatotto Architecture for Green Living. More about Aga Khan Academy Dhaka wraps around "friendly outdoor learning areas"
Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann's firm Studio Other Spaces has created a sculptural work called Common Sky to enclose an open-air courtyard at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. More about Studio Other Spaces encloses Buffalo museum courtyard in "canopy of glass and mirrors"
Wood and zinc-clad forms hug a spacious courtyard in a California home designed by US studio Walker Warner Architects to serve as a "private oasis". More about Courtyard lies at heart of Santa Monica Modern house by Walker Warner Architects
US architecture studio Mary English and Xavier Vendrell Architects have lined up three courtyards on a linear suburban plot for a white stucco house in San Antonio, Texas. More about Mary English and Xavier Vendrell arrange three courtyards for San Antonio house
Local studio BHY Arquitectos has completed an all-white infill house with painted brick on a narrow lot in Buenos Aires, Argentina that features multiple courtyards and patios. More about BHY Arquitectos arranges multiple courtyards in white Argentinian house
A series of interior courtyards and a walkway enclosed with wooden blinds define a narrow house in Mallorca designed by Spanish practice Company Studio. More about Company Studio designs Mallorcan house for indoor-outdoor living
Local studio Atelier Guy Architects has completed an all-timber office and factory for engineering firm SmartMill in Lévis, Quebec. More about Atelier Guy uses mass-timber structure for Canadian wood company facility
Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. More about Arquitecturia designs Catalan house as cluster of pavilions around garden
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
North Arrow Studio has completed a compact, corrugated metal accessory dwelling unit in East Austin's Chestnut neighbourhood featuring a custom, circular pivot window that is reminiscent of the round opening in a birdhouse. More about North Arrow Studio creates metal ADU in Austin to resemble a birdhouse
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
Classrooms and social spaces are arranged around a tree-filled courtyard at this school, created by Polish practice Jeju Studio for a refugee community in Tanzania. More about "Playful and accessible spaces" wrap courtyard at Wayair School by Jeju Studio
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
US studio Desai Chia Architecture has completed the Roxbury House, a weekend retreat for gallery owners that features courtyards for exhibiting artwork and a guesthouse designed for an artist in residence. More about Desai Chia uses charred-wood cladding for multi-structure Connecticut home