Australian architect Andrew Maynard has doubled the size of a house in Victoria by adding a row of skinny gabled blocks, intended to make the building look like a small village rather than a monolithic block (+ slideshow). More about Andrew Maynard's "anti-monolith" house is made up of seven small blocks
An old train carriage forms one half of this family home in Takasago, Japan, while the other half looks like it could be a railway station (+ slideshow). More about Takanobu Kishimoto's Platform is a home built around a train carriage
Australian studio Mihaly Slocombe has returned to a Melbourne home it completed almost a decade ago to add a timber nursery annex patterned with circular cutouts (+ slideshow). More about Mihaly Slocombe extends vineyard home in Australia with wooden nursery
Diagonal slats of timber line the boxy recesses set into the facade of this house in Portugal that has been remodelled by architect Ernesto Pereira (+ slideshow). More about Ernesto Pereira updates a coastal Portuguese home with timber-clad cutaways
A modern timber and glass structure connects the more traditional stone-walled buildings at either end of this house in the Scottish highlands, designed by architects Stuart Archer and Liz Marinko (+ slideshow). More about Gabled stone and glass Torispardon house reinterprets Scottish farm buildings
This red-painted timber-clad extension was added to the rear of an old stone farmhouse in Portugal, framing a new courtyard at the centre of the family home (+ slideshow). More about Pitágoras Arquitectos adds red timber wing to stone farmhouse in rural Portugal
Faced with a sharply sloping plot in Portland, Oregon, architect Ben Waechter chose to "build up rather than out" to create a cost-efficient house for a family (+ slideshow). More about Ben Waechter's Tower House makes the most of an "unbuildable" Portland hillside
London studio Kirkwood McCarthy has renovated a derelict workshop in east London to create a brick house that is tacked onto the end of a narrow mews yard (+ slideshow). More about Old upholsterer's workshop in London transformed into a narrow brick home
The remains of a former miner's residence in the Arizona desert provided the foundations for this tiny steel and concrete retreat by designer David Frazee (+ slideshow). More about Desert hideaway built among the ruins of an old miner's shelter in Arizona
Described by the architect as being "a bit like a treehouse for adults", this wooden house in rural Sweden boasts a triangular profile that allows the sloping facade to become a climbing wall (+ slideshow). More about Leo Qvarsebo designs himself a triangular summer house in the Swedish countryside
A staircase runs up alongside a six-metre-high bookshelf inside this house in Ukraine, which also features walls that look like piles of logs (+ slideshow). More about Ukraine house by Sergey Makhno combines a staircase with a two-storey-high bookcase
Bright white shutters concertina across the glazed facade of this Porto home designed and occupied by local architects Cláudia Monteiro and Vitor Oliveira. More about Folding shutters create varying levels of privacy for Porto townhouse
An entranceway lined with planks of red-brown wood punctures the concrete facade of this family home arranged around a courtyard in Brazil (+ slideshow). More about Red wood corridor forms entrance to concrete home in Brazil by Studio Guilherme Torres
A painted fabric screen concealing windows and balconies merges with the crisp white facade of this artist's house in north London by local firm Guard Tillman Pollock (+ slideshow). More about Stretched fabric hides the windows and balconies of an artist's Hampstead home
A grid of hinged metal shutters form a privacy screen across the windows of this terraced house in New York that architect Philippe Baumann designed for himself and his partner (+ slideshow). More about Philippe Baumann's Courtyard House is shielded behind a metal mesh cage
Modular buildings specialist ArchiBlox has unveiled its prototype for a compact carbon-positive house, featuring "edible garden walls", a sunroom and an insulating grass roof (+ slideshow). More about Prefabricated house in Melbourne's City Square can produce more energy than it uses
Weathered steel screens cast chequerboard patterns of sunlight and shadow across the internal surfaces of this house near Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More about Perforated screens cast graphic shadow patterns over concrete house by Pitsou Kedem
Bumpy terracotta tiles clad the gabled volume of this combined artist's studio and family home in the Italian countryside designed by Studio Zero85 (+ slideshow). More about Studio Zero85's hilltop house and studio for an artist is covered in ridged terracotta tiles
This glazed house built from thick concrete slabs was designed by Swiss architect Gian Salis to follow the slope of a plant-covered hill in Germany's Rhine Valley (+ slideshow). More about Gian Salis' House on a Slope steps down a hillside in the Rhine Valley
News: Bjarke Ingels' firm has released images of its design for a loop-shaped country house that features a gallery for showcasing the clients' car collection (+ slideshow). More about BIG unveils looping "snail" house designed for a car collector