Dutch office Studio Nauta created an ensemble of new and old gabled blocks for this family holiday home, which is secluded within a dense forest on the southern coastline of the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Cluster of gabled blocks form forest holiday home by Studio Nauta
London fashion store Hostem has launched its first guesthouse – a refurbished Georgian house with furniture from Pierre Jeanneret, Faye Toogood and Max Lamb, and accessories that guests can buy (+ slideshow). More about Hostem's New Road Residence is a guesthouse that includes a "lifestyle minibar"
Graduate students from Harvard University have launched a company that designs, builds and rents out wilderness micro cabins to urban residents "looking to escape the digital grind and test drive tiny-house living" (+ slideshow). More about Harvard students create tiny vacation houses for stressed-out city dwellers
Canadian architect Jean Verville has designed a cabin in rural Quebec with dark metal cladding and pointy roofs that "seems to emerge from a children's story" (+ slideshow). More about Jean Verville creates black fairytale-like cottage in a Quebec forest
Atelier Pierre Thibault has completed a holiday home in rural Quebec with a giant window wall that provides expansive views of the scenic terrain (+ slideshow). More about Pierre Thibault creates compact and light-filled house in a Quebec forest
Marta Nowicka & Co has transformed a former St John's Ambulance Station in East Sussex, England, to create a family retreat featuring exposed brick walls and industrial-style finishes (+ slideshow). More about Old ambulance station converted into holiday home by Marta Nowicka & Co
Architect Edgar Papazian of New York studio Doon Architecture has revamped an ageing A-frame home into a frugal family dwelling, in an area of Long Island known for its "outrageous housing market" (+ slideshow). More about Edgar Papazian transforms pointy wooden cabin in the Hamptons into weekend retreat
Wooden barn-like blocks splay out in various directions to form this Swedish villa by Stockholm studio Murman Arkitekter, framing views of a lake and surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). More about Murman Arkitekter completes a Swedish villa that fans out in all directions
Brazilian firm Studio Colnaghi Arquitetura has completed a house in Xangrilá, Brazil, featuring a concrete-framed games room that projects out over a poolside terrace (+ slideshow). More about Angular concrete slabs frame Brazilian house Casa Bosques
Canadian firm Ian MacDonald Architect has completed a family retreat in southern Ontario that cantilevers over a rocky hillside and is designed to be mostly hidden from view (+ slideshow). More about Ian MacDonald hides island cottage in Ontario within a pine forest
Ramsey Jones Architects has completed a vacation home in Wisconsin that consists of a slender rectangular bar with a square opening that frames views of one of the USA's Great Lakes (+ slideshow). More about Ramsey Jones creates slim beach cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan
Milwaukee-based Johnsen Schmaling Architects has completed a family retreat in rural Wisconsin featuring blackened pine cladding, concrete floors and wide-span glass doors (+ slideshow). More about Johnsen Schmaling clads cabin in a Wisconsin forest with blackened pine
Canadian studio MU Architecture has completed a white-painted holiday home in rural Quebec that is composed of two stacked volumes that cling to the steep terrain (+ slideshow). More about Bright white home by MU Architecture blends with Quebec's snowy landscape
Canadian firm Robitaille Curtis has completed a cabin in the Laurentian Mountains that sits atop wooden pilotis, enabling snowmelt to pass under the home (+ slideshow). More about Robitaille Curtis perches a ski chalet on a steep slope in Quebec
Ladders lead to sleeping platforms accommodated beneath the hipped roof of this simple Slovakian lake house, which local studio JRKVC designed without any corridors to utilise the available space (+ slideshow). More about JRKVC's lakeside house optimises small footprint with hidden attic areas
Slabs of board-marked concrete form the walls, floors and roof of this holiday home designed by architects by Luciano Kruk and María Victoria Besonías for a coastal forest near Buenos Aires (+ slideshow). More about BAK Arquitectos nestles exposed concrete holiday home in forest glade
This weekend retreat on the Australian coastline was designed by Melbourne firm Open Studio to peep over the tree canopy, offering views of a creek that runs alongside the beach (+ slideshow). More about Open Studio completes coastal retreat on Australia's Mornington Peninsula
Panoramic windows puncture the grey brick walls of this guest house, designed by South Korean studio Z_Lab to optimise views of Jeju island's picturesque coastline (+ slideshow). More about Z_Lab uses volcanic stone and pale grey brick for gabled holiday home on Jeju island
This cabin perched on a hillside on Norway's west coast features modular rooms that extend outwards from the main structure to enhance views of the adjacent fjord (+ slideshow). More about Rever & Drage's holiday cabin features wooden pods that frame views of a Norwegian fjord
Möhring Architekten clad this holiday home in rural Germany in black-painted wood to look like a traditional barn, but then cut windows out of the corners to give it a contemporary edge (+ slideshow). More about House Wieckin by Möhring Architekten features black-painted walls and deep corner windows