The Sea Ranch community in Northern California will be spotlighted in a forthcoming SFMOMA exhibition. We've rounded up five residences on the coastal site that demonstrate why the 1960s development remains a holiday hotspot today. More about Five vacation homes at California's modernist marvel The Sea Ranch
San Francisco firm Malcolm Davis Architecture has divided this holiday home at the Sea Ranch community in California into two cedar-clad volumes, which face out in different directions to overlook the rugged coastline. More about Steel porch connects Coastal Retreat at Sea Ranch by Malcolm Davis
Australian studio Alexander & Co kept to a restrained palette of black, white, and grey for the renovation of this waterfront holiday home in Sydney, so as not to distract from the view out to sea. More about Monochromatic living spaces feature inside Palm Beach House in Sydney
This brick holiday home by Argentinian architecture firm Estudio Galera, in a seaside town south of Buenos Aires, references the "formal and material austerity" of the surrounding properties. More about Estudio Galera uses "common bricks" for Casa Rincón in Argentinian seaside town
This wooden chicken coop, installed in the grounds of summer house in rural Finland, is styled like a miniature log cabin perched above the ground on granite rocks. More about Chan Brisco Architects builds wooden chicken coop that looks like a log cabin in rural Finland
New York City firm Mapos has nestled a grass-topped holiday home into a lush hill overlooking a Long Island bay, covering it in untreated wood, steel and concrete to match the surroundings. More about Hamptons retreat features grassy roof that blends with slope overlooking Peconic Bay
An irregular undulating roof tops this tree-house-inspired holiday home on stilts, built in a remote Chinese village by architecture studio Monoarchi. More about Treewow Retreat is a Chinese village house featuring a round freeform roof
Namibian studio Nina Maritz Architects was inspired by the hundreds of shipwrecks strewn along the country's Skeleton Coast when designing this group of remote lodges. More about Shipwreck Lodge's wooden cabins evoke ships washed up on Namibia's Skeleton Coast
Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects updated a sequence of cave-like subterranean spaces and vaulted rooms in this holiday home on the island of Santorini. More about Kapsimalis Architects refurbishes Santorini cave house
Finnish designer Robin Falck has created an A-frame mirrored holiday home on Vallisaari, an island near Helsinki. More about The Nolla cabin by Robin Falck is a zero-emissions escape in Finland
Studio Morison's yellow PVC pavilion provides visitors to a Dutch art festival with the chance to sleep in one of the darkest places in the Netherlands. More about Studio Morison designs Escape Vehicle #9 for when nature reclaims the planet
Mexican architects AM30 Taller de Arquitectura and Stephane Arriola have completed a vacation home in Jalisco, using traditional materials and aiming to disturb the site as little as possible. More about Rural home in Jalisco by AM30 and Stephane Arriola clusters around a courtyard
This house on New York's Fire Island escaped Hurricane Sandy unscathed, despite its exposed beachfront location, thanks to an overhaul from Delson or Sherman Architects. More about Delson or Sherman Architects upgrades Fire Island House to withstand hurricanes
The brothers that commissioned Quebec City-based Atelier Pierre Thibault to create them a shared weekend house each have a separate black block to accommodate their family. More about Two brothers share La Fraternelle retreat by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Design collective Framestudio has restored a 1960s cabin originally built by American architect Joseph Esherick as a model for low-cost holiday housing. More about Framestudio refurbishes mid-century Sea Ranch Cabin in northern California
Santiago-based architect Ignacio Correa has built this stilted wooden holiday home on the Chilean coastline and added long expanses of glazing to offer its residents views of the Pacific Ocean. More about Ignacio Correa elevates Casa Mujeres in Chile to provide ocean views
American studio Robert Young Architects has created a weekend home in a coastal hamlet on Long Island, clad in rough-sawn cedar planks that were left untreated so they can age naturally. More about Robert Young's East Lake House in Montauk is designed to weather over time
Faded frescos offer a backdrop to contemporary furnishings in Brolettouno Apartment, a holiday home in northern Italy that has been refurbished by local studio Archiplan. More about Archiplan celebrates painted frescos in subtle revamp of 15th-century Italian home
Architect Alfonso Arango has designed himself a 24-square-metre weekend retreat next to his childhood home overlooking the Andes mountains in Colombia. More about Alfonso Arango builds tiny black cabin next to his childhood home
Buenos Aires-based studio Besonías Almeida Arquitectos has completed a holiday home in a seaside resort south of the Argentinian capital, with board-marked concrete walls and overhanging roofs. More about Besonías Almeida Arquitectos creates board-marked concrete summer house