US design studio Davidson Rafailidis has retained peeling paintwork, uneven concrete flooring and rough wooden beams while converting a garage in Buffalo, New York, into a live-work space. More about Davidson Rafailidis turns 1920s garage in Buffalo into combined home and workshop
Corrugated-metal cladding contrasts with an angled white-painted brick wall at this robust and economical house in Melbourne, which features a ground-floor living area that can be used alternatively as a garage. More about Garage House by Foomann Architects can be used for car parking or adaptable accommodation
Texas studio Matt Fajkus Architecture has created a two-storey building that features a garage at ground level and a home above, part of which cantilevers over the site. More about Matt Fajkus designs asymmetric Austin residence for vintage car lover
Adam Kane Architects has added a garage and painting studio to a house in the Australian state of Victoria, which features pitched corrugated-metal roofs, cement walls and pared-back interiors. More about Adam Kane Architects adds gabled art studio and gallery to Australian home
Fala Atelier has transformed a windowless garage in Lisbon into bright, open-plan living space for a young couple with a parking spot for their car. More about Fala Atelier converts windowless garage into home for young couple
Two giant lifts are concealed in the base of this garage in Switzerland, providing access to a secret underground space where a member of a royal family stores vintage cars and motorcycles (+ slideshow). More about B29 creates "James Bond super garage" in Switzerland for a royal client
At this house for a racing driver, Czech studio Stempel & Tesar has shifted the living spaces upstairs to make room for a car workshop below (+ slideshow). More about Car workshop takes priority at Stempel & Tesar's house for a racing driver
Floor-to-ceiling glazing permits views across rooms and into the garage of this renovated Chicago office, where the owner's limited-edition Porsche is parked (+ slideshow). More about Chicago office by Vladimir Radutny features industrial details and a glass-walled garage
Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura used hexagons to generate the layout of this Tokyo home and workplace for a car dealer, while triangular arches create warren-like interiors (+ slideshow). More about Hiroshi Nakamura's showroom and home for a car dealer features warren-like interiors
This slatted timber garage is propped above the swimming pool of a house on a hillside overlooking Athens (+ slideshow). More about Hiboux Architects elevates slatted timber garage above the pool of an Athens house
This parking garage in the Miami Design District features a textured facade of perforated metal panels, designed by architecture firms IwamotoScott and Leong Leong, with artist John Baldessari (+ slideshow). More about IwamotoScott and Leong Leong wrap a Miami parking garage in perforated screens
Tokyo architecture studio Suppose Design Office has repurposed old scaffold boards to create flooring and furniture for the concrete interior of its own atelier space (+ slideshow). More about Suppose Design Office's Tokyo studio mixes concrete, steel and reclaimed wood
A grassy lawn grows on top of this board-marked concrete farm building by Spanish architect Arnau Vergés, which is set into a slope beside an old stone house in rural Catalonia (+ slideshow). More about Arnau Vergés builds concrete outbuilding for 17th-century Spanish farmhouse
A tapered column of cast concrete supports the underside of a dark oak staircase inside one of the residences that occupies this converted London garage by Patalab Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Single concrete leg props a staircase inside converted Primrose Hill garage by Patalab
An electric sports car has its parking space in the shiny white living room of this former carpenter's workshop in the Netherlands, which Studio OxL has converted into a home (+ slideshow). More about Studio OxL converts a carpenter's workshop into a live-in garage
Amsterdam architects O+A have completed an extension to a villa near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. More about Villa extension by O+A