Architect Kristijan Markoc has created a downloadable template for a "deliberately modest", two-bedroom timber home designed to be adapted to any site. More about Plana House is a free-to-download design for a compact timber home
A cluster of monolithic forms lined with grey brick and built into a steep bank defines Tollymore, a riverside house in Northern Ireland by Belfast studio McGonigle McGrath. More about Cluster of rock-like volumes make up rural Irish house by McGonigle McGrath
Skylit ceilings and zigzagging staircases animate this tall, skinny home and ceramics studio in Japan, completed by local studio Tato Architects. More about Tato Architects combines skinny home with ceramics studio in Kyoto
Accoya wood cladding and expansive terraces feature at the Dune House, which was designed by American studio Ziger Snead Architects for a tight site with many restrictions. More about Giant balconies line Delaware beach house by Ziger Snead
Pale brickwork and ceramic tiles were used to highlight the dappled light and green hues of the woodland surrounding this home in Utrecht, completed by Dutch studio Jeroen Spee Architecten. More about Jeroen Spee Architecten nestles pale brick Villa Bilt into Dutch forest
Portuguese studio António Costa Lima Arquitectos has completed Praia do Bom Sucesso, a block of three homes in Lisbon with an industrial-feeling structure of exposed brickwork and weathered steel. More about António Costa Lima Arquitectos completes warehouse-style housing block in Lisbon
Barcelona-based H3O architects has renovated a 19th-century house in the city's Gracia neighbourhood, taking care to preserve heritage elements while introducing quirky details like hidden windows. More about H3O uses "playful and intelligent gestures" to update historic Barcelona home
Grassy rooftops and PE rattan facades characterise Split Mass Residence in Indonesia, which local firm K-Thengono Design Studio designed with multi-level social spaces for the family to gather. More about Sloping green roofs "keep the family connected" at Indonesian home
A stone house embedded into the Greek landscape and a sprawling American home with a retractable roof are among the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. More about Dezeen's top five houses of August 2026
This waterfront residence overlooking Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay has been reimagined to include a "mosh pit" lounge by California-based Lauri Design Studio. More about Lauri Design Studio renovates "calm, connected" Michigan lake house
A tilted facade with large glazed openings was designed to bring an adjacent forest "directly into the interior" of this home in the Czech Republic by Prague-based Papundekl Architects. More about Slanted facade encloses modular Czech home by Papundekl Architects
Skylights, an internal light well and silver-painted ceilings pull light deep into House in Shichiku, a home in Kyoto designed by local studio Tato Architects. More about Tato Architects uses silver-painted ceilings to draw light into Kyoto home
Architecture studio Colar has updated and extended a dilapidated adobe structure to create a single-storey home in Chiapas, Mexico. More about Colar revives adobe structure to create pared-back home in Mexico
Indian studio Evolving Radical Aesthetics has completed Ushas, a farmhouse built into a steep Kerala hillside with an open-air temple carved into a retaining wall. More about Open-air temple sits beneath granite farmhouse on Kerala hillside
Architect Alexandre Pavlidis has completed Within the Earth, a house on the Greek island of Sifnos contained within a series of sunken stone walls that step down a coastal hillside. More about Rough drystone walls frame sunken home on Greek island by Alexandre Pavlidis
A crisp white cube has been nested within the old brick shell of an existing building to create Casa Nido, a Spanish house designed by local studio Iterare Arquitectos. More about Iterare Arquitectos inserts stark white home into shell of old Spanish building
A brick cube reminiscent of old industrial structures forms this family home in the suburbs of Ghent, designed by Belgian architecture studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle. More about Atelier Vens Vanbelle references brick industrial buildings for cubic home in Belgium
Dutch studio Woonpioniers has completed CoHouse in Utrecht, a pair of interlocking houses designed for two families within a single gabled volume. More about Woonpioniers models adjoining Dutch homes on "a game of Tetris"
Local architecture studio Mosley Thorold has updated and extended a Victorian home in east London, using a textured palette of concrete, brick, tiles and metal intended to patina over time. More about Mosley Thorold mixes salvaged and natural materials in De Beauvoir home renovation
A study has found that children living in Star Homes, a housing initiative in Tanzania, have lower rates of malaria, diarrhoea and respiratory infections compared to those living in mud-and-thatch houses. More about Research finds Star Homes housing reduces malaria in children by 44 per cent