Architect Kenta Hirayama has designed an "unpretentious house" in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, which features a metal facade and deliberately simple gabled roof. More about Kenta Hirayama clads House in Kinuta in steel-sheet facade
US architecture studio OPAL has created a farming research and education centre made with mass timber and modelled after the local barns on its site in Maine, weaving together "tradition and modern sensibility". More about OPAL "superinsulates" mass-timber farming education center in Maine
US studio Payette has completed a pro-bono project called Land's Sake Farmstand in Massachusetts, USA, designed as a "functional and poetic" timber pavilion that emulates early agrarian buildings. More about Payette creates timber farm stand "rooted in the rhythms of New England"
An exterior of charred timber and thatch is contrasted by a vibrant interior palette of blues and purples at this riverside home in Riga, Latvia designed by architecture studio OAD. More about OAD tops barn-like summer home with thatch roof
A pair of gabled volumes conceal the expansive timber-lined interiors of Light House, a home in the Netherlands designed by local studio Woonpioniers. More about Woonpioniers opts for "modernity tucked inside tradition" at timber-lined Dutch home
Dutch studio B2A Architects has completed Cascade, a home in the Netherlands that is elevated above a dyke on a stepped concrete platform. More about B2A Architects uses concrete columns to elevate Dutch home above dyke
Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has unveiled plans for an art and photography museum in Germany, which will feature an 80-metre-long rammed-earth wall and a timber pergola. More about Timber museum to be Kéré Architecture's first cultural project in Germany
New York-based studio Solk Architecture has designed a rectangular, gabled house with fibre cement siding as a way to find beauty in functionality in the Hudson Valley. More about Solk Architecture places white house on Hudson Valley hilltop
Pitched roofs made of red corrugated metal have recently proven popular among both architects and Dezeen readers. Below, we've rounded up five examples of otherwise modest houses that use this striking feature to their advantage. More about Five unassuming houses crowned with bold red metal roofs
Dutch practice Studioquint has renovated and extended a farmhouse in the Netherlands, adding a barn-like form clad in black timber that was designed to resemble the "shadow" of the existing building. More about Studioquint extends Dutch farmhouse with black-timber Shadow Barn extension
A double-gabled form that resembles the merging of two homes defines this red house in Hackney, designed by local studio Graeme Williamson Architects. More about Graeme Williamson Architects creates Twin House for blended family in London
Charred timber shrouds the exposed concrete interiors of these two conjoined homes in Germany, designed by local studio Buero Wagner. More about Charred timber and exposed concrete defines conjoined houses in Germany by Buero Wagner
Toronto-based studio Superkül has created a gabled house in a forest clearing in Grey County, Canada, with a monochromatic colour scheme that emphasises the building's distinct roofline More about Superkül utilises "exaggerated roof" for Ridge House in Ontario
Local studio OPA has designed Plumbago, a garden shed-style restaurant in Mexico City's Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood, clad in corrugated polycarbonate sheet. More about OPA constructs "urban greenhouse" for Mexico City restaurant
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a Norwegian woodland cabin by Quentin Desfarges. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about This week's Dezeen Debate features "drop-dead gorgeous" cabin
California studio Brooks + Scarpa has included roofs with exaggerated gables for the angular black-metal-clad Steeplechase house in the forests of North Carolina, USA, designed to merge modern and traditional elements. More about Brooks + Scarpa "revitalises traditional forms" with gabled North Carolina house
Porthole-style windows puncture the gable ends of this timber mountain cabin in Norway, which has been designed by local architect Quentin Desfarges. More about Quentin Desfarges punctuates Norwegian woodland cabin with large circular windows
Polish studio Mistovia has paired plywood, walnut and graphite accents with a mishmash of vintage furniture in Plener Istebna – a pair of gabled cottages in the Silesian Beskids mountains. More about Mistovia designs duo of Polish holiday homes to complement mountainous surroundings
Brooklyn-based studio Group Projects Architecture has nestled a long gabled house clad in corrugated metal in a meadow in North East, New York. More about Group Projects Architecture clads Catskills house in corrugated metal
Mexican studio Elías Rizo Arquitectos has balanced a concrete house with a steep gabled roof on a hillside in Tapalpa, Mexico near Guadalajara. More about Elías Rizo reinterprets vernacular Mexican cabin in concrete