Seven Santorini island retreats by Kapsimalis Architects
From converted caves to underground pools, here are seven hotels and houses on the Greek island of Santorini designed by local studio Kapsimalis Architects. More
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Kapsimalis Architects builds imposing summer house in Santorini
House in Pyrgos is a fortress-style holiday home covered with earth-toned plaster built by Kapsimalis Architects on the Greek island of Santorini. More
K Studio creates stone holiday home on Mykonos overlooking the Aegean Sea
Stone and whitewashed walls surround a holiday home on the Greek island of Mykonos designed by K Studio, which has a tree poking through its shady wooden pergolas. More
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Pack your bags and join us on tour with this week's travel-inspired Pinterest boards
To celebrate being shortlisted for the Pinterest UK Awards 2019 in its travel tips category, we're whisking you away to boards featuring places to stay around the world. Visit alluring hotels in the US, harmonious holiday homes and Greek houses that look like a little glimpse of heaven by following Dezeen on Pinterest › More
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Kapsimalis Architects converts caves for summer houses on Greek island
The vaulted forms and underground caves of an old house on the Greek island of Santorini have been converted into a holiday home complex by Kapsimalis Architects. More
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Voids and openings provide views and sea breezes at Patio House by OOAK
This concrete holiday home on Greek island Karpathos cantilevers over a rocky cliff and features an open-air dining area that looks out across the Aegean Sea. More
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En Route Architects perches linear concrete house on Greek island hillside
The rear of this holiday home on the Greek island of Kea is partially embedded in a steep hillside, while the front is entirely lined with full-height windows that look out towards the Aegean Sea. More
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10 idyllic Greek island retreats from Dezeen's Pinterest boards
Following the completion of an unusually domed holiday home in Greece, we've rounded up 10 summer houses on far-flung Greek islands, including a modernist home inspired by Yves Klein's paintings and a once earthquake-damaged property restored using historical photographs. More
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Domed summer house by LASSA offers an elevated view over a Greek olive grove
Fingers of earth branch over this mound-shaped holiday home by architecture studio LASSA, allowing its owners to climb up onto the roof to admire Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. More
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Greek island home by Lydia Xynogala fans out to maximise sea views
Staggering a series of parallel spaces, architect and Columbia University professor Lydia Xynogala has created a hillside home on Skiathos where rooms have secluded terraces facing the ocean. More
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Huge circular hole pierces concrete house in Crete by Tense Architecture Network
Athens-based Tense Architecture Network has completed a curvy concrete house on the Greek island of Crete, featuring a massive circular puncture that provides it occupants with a shaded roof terrace. More
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Santorini summer house by Kapsimalis Architects is formed of bright white blocks
This bright white summer house on the Santorini coastline comprises a series of staggered blocks, designed by Kapsimalis Architects to reflect the traditional housing on the Greek island (+ slideshow). More
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Kapsimalis Architects completes mountainside apartments near Santorini's highest point
Rocks excavated from the site of this apartment building on the Greek island of Santorini were reused to form terraces and retaining walls so it blends with its mountainous setting (+ slideshow). More
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Greg Haji Joannides restores interior of ruined 17th-century Greek island house
Designer Greg Haji Joannides used historic photographs as a guide when creating a new contemporary interior for this earthquake-damaged house on the Greek island of Nisyros (+ slideshow). More
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Silver House by Olivier Dwek stands on the forested hillside of the Greek island Zante
Stark white walls frame vistas of the Ionian Sea from a bright white house by Brussels-based architect Olivier Dwek, which is perched above the coastline of Zante (+ slideshow). More
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Tense Architecture Network completes a "frugal" concrete home in a Greek olive grove
The triangular form of this concrete home in Greece by Tense Architecture Network creates a large window overlooking olive groves and the Gerania Mountains (+ slideshow). More
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Santorini Island retreat by Kapsimalis Architects features rooftop and underground pools
Greek office Kapsimalis Architects has renovated a small white house on the cliffs of a Greek island, adding two roof terraces with plunge pools, and a third and more sizeable swimming pool in the basement (+ slideshow). More
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House in Kea is a concrete residence built around oak trees on a Greek isle
Architects Marina Stassinopoulos and Konstantios Daskalakis have slotted a house with three courtyards around existing oak trees on the Greek island of Kea (+ slideshow). More
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Mirage house by Kois Associated Architects to feature rooftop infinity pool
An infinity pool will form the roof of this cavernous house designed by Athens studio Kois Associated Architects for the Greek island of Tinos (+ slideshow). More
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Residence in Kato Kifissia by Tense Architecture Network
This family house in Athens by Greek office Tense Architecture Network comprises a boxy concrete upper floor perched atop a glazed living room and kitchen (+ photographs by Filippo Poli). More
