Architects Laura Torres Roa and Alfonso Miguel Caballero have completed a countryside home punctured with irregular concrete-framed windows in rural Ibiza (+ slideshow). More about Ca na Maria is a bright white Ibiza home with an assortment of protruding windows
Towering oak trees surround this addition to a family residence in Sardinia, which is raised up on concrete feet to minimise its impact on the wild landscape (+ slideshow). More about Officina29 Architetti builds garden living room without cutting down any trees
Vietnamese studio HA has completed a monastery-inspired home for a Buddhist family, featuring concrete-brick walls that are animated by patterns of light and shadow (+ slideshow). More about Zen House is a home for three Buddhists organised around a light-filled atrium
Red cedar provides a golden-hued exterior for this small gabled house, designed by local studio Atelier Kukka for a Tokyo street featuring a Japanese cherry tree (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Kukka's House U is designed to frame a nearby cherry tree in Tokyo
Angled bricks create three-dimensional zigzags across the walls of this London house, which architects office Dallas Pierce Quintero built on a tiny infill plot in east London (+ slideshow). More about Dallas Pierce Quintero arranges small London home around four courtyards
US studio Go Logic has completed a three-bedroom home in New England, featuring angled roofs, a covered walkway and glazing that offers expansive views of the surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). More about Go Logic builds a wooden house in a forest clearing in Maine
Minnesota-based Architects for Society has developed a prototype for a rapidly deployable dwelling that could house victims of catastrophic events (+ slideshow). More about Architects for Society designs low-cost hexagonal shelters for refugees
The interior of this former council-owned house in north London has been given a modern makeover by local studio Archmongers to create brighter spaces with colourful accents (+ slideshow). More about Archmongers brightens the interior of "plain and ugly" 1970s ex-council house
GKMP Architects has extended a 1930s residence in Dublin, Ireland, using the same material palette – which even includes pebbledash. More about GKMP Architects uses pebbledash, brick and slate for Dublin house extension
Utrecht studio EVA has transformed a former workshop building in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch into a loft-like home with a wooden box at its centre (+ slideshow). More about EVA converts former workshop into loft-inspired home for a Dutch couple
The American Institute of Architects has announced its top 10 American housing projects of 2016, including a group of treehouse-like cabins in Minnesota woodland and an inner-city development for formerly homeless people in San Francisco (+ slideshow). More about AIA announces top 10 housing projects for 2016 awards
Osaka studio Process5 Design created this weekend retreat in western Japan to accommodate activities that are usually impossible in a city house (+ slideshow). More about T Weekend Residence by Process5 Design lets residents dine and bathe in sea breeze
Thirteen oak trees are planted in a courtyard at the centre of this residence by Roof Arquitectos, which sits in the hilly landscape outside the Mexican city of Morelia (+ movie). More about Roof Arquitectos arranges Mexican residence around a "forest" of red oak trees
Architecture studio GAFPA used low-cost materials to build this Japanese-inspired weekend retreat in northern Belgium, which features a slender spiral staircase (+ slideshow). More about Belgian holiday house by GAFPA takes its cues from Japanese architecture
Each room in this Porto house by 236 Arquitectos is contained within an individual white box, which is stacked irregularly from its neighbour to form a distinctive cluster formation (+ slideshow). More about Staggered and stacked blocks define rooms in Porto residence by 236 Arquitectos
This weekend residence by Architecture Brio is half-embedded in the bank of a river that winds its way through the foothills of the Western Ghats, a mountain range bordering India's western coast (+ slideshow). More about Riverside house by Architecture Brio is partially embedded in a grassy hillock
London architecture studio Platform 5 has added a cranked extension to a Victorian house in Hackney, featuring a herringbone-patterned dining table that matches the parquet flooring. More about Herringbone patterns feature inside angular house extension by Platform 5
Belgian studio GAFPA has slotted a timber-framed house inside the steel skeleton of a disused stonemason's atelier in Ghent, and transformed a former outbuilding into a walled garden (+ slideshow). More about GAFPA inserts wooden house into the shell of an old Belgian industrial building
Architect Phillip Lühl has added a pair of extensions to a Modernist house in Namibia, using cement brickwork textured with the coarse fibres of hessian fabric (+ slideshow). More about Phillip Lühl uses "bagged concrete bricks" to build two extensions to a Namibia house
Threefold Architects has combined a Victorian workshop and an old shop unit in east London to create a home and gallery for an art curator (+ slideshow). More about Threefold Architects transforms workshop and shop to create combined gallery and home