Kim Kardashian has hired leading Japanese architects Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma to build a pair of vacation homes in the US – a "zen" mansion in Palm Springs and a lakeside lodge for celebrating the Fourth of July. More about Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma designing holiday homes for Kim Kardashian
Native ferns and trees grow within the centre of this home in Molco, Chile, which architect Lucas Maino Fernandez designed to establish continuity between the living spaces and the surrounding forest. More about Lucas Maino Fernandez completes Casa Un Patio in dense Chilean forest
Argentine architect Fabrizio Pugliese has incorporated both handcrafted and industrial elements while creating a family's holiday home just outside of Buenos Aires. More about Vaulted brick roof tops Casa Monopoli in Argentina by Fabrizio Pugliese
Mexican studio Práctica Arquitectura has designed La Hacienda Jardín, a holiday home in Tepoztlán built from Texcal volcanic stone and Durango pine around a central courtyard. More about Práctica Arquitectura reinterprets Mexican hacienda in volcanic stone
Dutch studio Unknown Architects has completed a cabin-like holiday home in the Netherlands with panoramic windows for looking out at the surrounding landscape of dunes and hills. More about Unknown Architects embeds home in sand dunes on Dutch island
Chinese architecture studio More Design Office (MDO) has converted a cluster of traditional rammed-earth houses in China's Zhejiang Province into a series of contemporary guesthouses called Floating Cloud Township Villa. More about MDO converts rammed-earth houses in rural China into holiday villas
The earthen tone of this off-grid holiday home in Northern Mexico was selected to match the rock formations of the nearby Cumbres de Majalca National Park, which is known for its dramatic landscapes. More about Concrete walls frame desert views in remote Chihuahua home by OAX Arquitectos
White forms with geometric cut-outs have been inserted into the walls of a former granary mill to create this coastal holiday home in Portugal's Algarve region, designed by architecture studio Atelier Data. More about Atelier Data converts Portuguese mill into bright white holiday home
British studio RX Architects referenced Mediterranean beach houses when designing Seabreeze, a coastal holiday home in East Sussex that is covered in smooth pink concrete. More about Pink concrete covers "fun house" on English coast by RX Architects
A black holiday home by Chilean architecture studio Elton Léniz is lifted off the ground by wooden stilts to help reduce the building's impact on the earth. More about Elton Léniz perches Casa BB on hillside overlooking Chilean lake
A series of concrete retaining walls help support an irregularly shaped holiday home in southern Chile that was designed by architecture firm Triangular. More about Triangular embeds PR House on a forested hillside in Chile
A twisted, stacked form clad in black timber creates both terraces and cantilevering canopies at this holiday home in the Cotswolds, designed by prefab specialists Koto. More about Koto designs twisted holiday home overlooking the Cotswolds
Deep overhangs shade pavilions and walkways at a lush nature retreat in Costa Rica by architectural practice Studio Saxe. More about Studio Saxe weaves Caribbean Courtyard Villa into a Costa Rican jungle
Architecture firm ZITA has used blackened wood and prefabricated structural elements to create a cabin in the Colombian highlands that was built entirely by hand. More about ZITA raises House in the Andean Moorland above a fragile ecosystem
Prefabricated modules and renewable materials feature in a flexible design system by Mexican firm Amezcua that has been used to build three houses at a weekend retreat. More about Amezcua unveils homes built using its prefabricated Kineki system
San Francisco firm Aidlin Darling Design has completed a low-slung home in California's Palm Desert that is intended to contrast the boulders and trees found in its remote setting. More about Boulders and pine trees surround High Desert Retreat by Aidlin Darling Design
The whitewashed stone wall that surrounds this holiday home in southern Portugal draws on the region's historic walled fortifications known as alcáçova, to create a feeling of refuge and shelter. More about Promontorio references walled fortresses for holiday home in Portugal
Mexican architect Francisco Pardo has created a partly underground weekend home that is meant to exist in "pleasant tension" with the natural landscape. More about Francisco Pardo tucks Casa Aguacates into hillside in rural Mexico
A large pyramid-shaped skylight atop a zinc roof illuminates the interiors of this weekend home overlooking the sea in Fredrikstad, Norway, designed by Line Solgaard Arkitekter. More about Line Solgaard tops Weekend House Fredrikstad with pyramid skylight
Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos has reused the foundations of a previous building project for this holiday home in Chile, which can accommodate up to 12 guests. More about Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos completes Chilean ski cabin atop reused foundations