Wooden screens are used to form walls and overhanging roofs in this duo of Costa Rican beach houses by local firm Studio Saxe, which integrate the surrounding jungle into their design. More about Studio Saxe's Naia houses open up to the Costa Rican rainforest
Dutch office Orange Architects has completed a compact holiday home on the island of Texel in the Netherlands, featuring an interior that adapts to its occupants' changing needs throughout the day. More about Holiday Home by Orange Architects is a timber-clad cabin with a flexible interior
Concrete and glass are used throughout the interior and exterior of this holiday home in northern Portugal, which local studio Carvalho Araújo designed to blend in with its woodland setting. More about Carvalho Araújo completes monolithic concrete house in a Portuguese forest
Perforated steel doors, generous arched openings and terracotta tile floors help to blend the indoor and outdoor spaces within this Spanish holiday home by Bajet Giramé and Nicolas Burckhardt. More about Arched openings connect indoor and outdoor spaces in 1960s Spanish holiday home
Architecture studio Ignacio Correa Arquitecto used concrete, masonry and glass to build a small holiday home that overlooks a lake in central Chile. More about Ignacio Correa Arquitecto creates kinked Lake Pavilion for waterfront site in Chile
Mazul Beachfront Villas are a collection of holiday homes with coloured concrete facades designed to match their sandy surrounds on the coast of Oaxaca in Mexico. More about Revolution designs coloured concrete Mazul Beachfront Villas in Oaxaca
Curved walls and arching ceilings enclose indoor and outdoor living spaces arranged over several stepped levels at this villa in Menorca by architects Nomo Studio. More about Nomo Studio carves curved patios and terraces into Menorcan holiday home
This house near Japan's Mount Asama was designed by READ & Architects for a couple starting their retirement, but it can also be used as a vacation home by their children and grandchildren. More about READ & Architects builds retirement house that doubles as a vacation home in Japanese mountain town
Architecture studio New How has created an angular holiday home called Weekend House in Nové Hamry, Czech Republic. More about New How nestles CLT holiday home into Czech Republic mountains
Greek studio Sinas Architects has built a house on the island of Serifos, taking cues from local dry stone walls to make the building as inconspicuous as possible. More about Curving stone walls allow Xerolithi vacation house to merge with Greek island landscape
Chilean studio Max-A combined local materials with modular construction to keep costs down on the Casa Tobita holiday home. More about Max-A builds low-cost modular cabin overlooking Lake Ranco in Chile
Ell House by architecture firms Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio is a cedar-clad holiday home in rural Ontario with a gable roof that takes cues from the region's barns. More about Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio build cedar-clad lakeside barn
Santiago-based studio 2DM Arquitectos has built a holiday home overlooking the Pacific Ocean that has a cantilevered upper floor to take advantage of the views. More about 2DM Arquitectos creates angular holiday cabin on Chilean coast
Mexican firm HGR Arquitectos has completed Casa Texcal, a holiday home formed of intersecting gabled volumes wrapped in local stone and large stretches of glass. More about Grey stone clads Casa Texcal in Mexico by HGR Arquitectos
Large openings frame views of the swimming pool and surrounding landscape from the living spaces and terraces of this holiday home on the island of Mallorca, designed by local studio Isla Architects. More about Holes and windows create "abstract composition" on facades of Mallorcan holiday home
American firm Walker Warner Architects has perched a basalt and cedar-clad holiday home in Hawaii on a mountainside of lava rock with an infinity pool that looks towards the sea. More about Hawaii house by Walker Warner Architects hugged by volcanic rock
Em-Estudio has built a holiday home on a steep hillside in Oaxaca, Mexico, from coloured concrete chosen to blend into the rocky mountainside. More about Em-Estudio builds concrete holiday home on Oaxaca hillside
Architecture and design office Out of the Valley has completed a wooden holiday cabin on a farm in Devon, England, featuring a mono-pitched roof and sliding doors that open onto a sheltered veranda. More about Out of the Valley designs and builds a cedar-clad cabin on an English farm
Tropical plants surround a holiday home by Mexican firm CO-LAB Design Office, which has large openings to help keep the interior "cool and fresh throughout the year". The property is bordered by a rustic wall made of stones that were excavated during construction. More about CO-LAB designs Casa Areca to merge with lush landscape in Tulum
This holiday home designed by architecture office KRADS features large openings that frame views of Iceland's Lake Thingvallavatn, and a turfed roof to help it blend in with its natural surroundings. More about KRADS completes green-roofed Icelandic holiday home overlooking Lake Thingvallavatn