An austere exterior of stacked concrete volumes conceals a double-height courtyard and plant-filled terrace at the heart of this home in Tokyo, designed by local studio Apollo Architects & Associates. More about Apollo Architects & Associates prioritises "security and privacy" for Tokyo home
Indian studio Mindspark Architects has created a house overlooking a cardamom plantation in Kerala, using sliding glass doors to connect its concrete interiors and the surrounding landscape. More about Summer Home by Mindspark Architects overlooks cardamom plantation in India
Spanish practice Raúl Sánchez Architects has renovated a home in Mataro, Spain, which belonged to a sailor in the 19th century, updating its interiors to suit the lifestyle of his descendant who lives there now. More about Raúl Sánchez Architects splashes old sailor's home in Spain with modern details
Portuguese architecture studio Atelier Backlar has used recycled ocean plastic and locally sourced timber to create The Blue House within the ruins of a former whaler's tavern on São Miguel Island in the Azores. More about Atelier Backlar wraps Portuguese clifftop house in recycled ocean plastic
UK practice Studio Hallett Ike has completed the renovation and extension of a gothic-style lodge in the grounds of a London cemetery. More about Studio Hallett Ike updates and extends Victorian lodge in the grounds of a London cemetery
Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen and Leonardo Gúzman Valencia in Chile have collaborated on a prototype for modular housing lifted on stilts with clearly separated building components that respond to changing site conditions and allow for flexibility. More about Chilean modular housing protoype uses stilts to traverse difficult site
Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its interiors and improving its connection to the surroundings with corrugated-metal canopies. More about YNAS uses timber-framed canopies to reconnect Japanese home with the outdoors
Architecture office House of EM has modernised a terraced house in north London, adding a sunken rear extension that can be opened up to create a flexible indoor-outdoor living space. More about House of EM adds light-filled "loggia" to north-London home
Studio Hagen Hall has modernised a Georgian terraced house in north London, using a pared-back material palette including smoked-oak joinery to create atmospheric spaces informed by Japanese architecture. More about Studio Hagen Hall explores Japanese and modernist design ideas at renovated Heion House
New York studio Khanna Schultz has taken cues from Japanese architecture to create a "net-positive-energy" house in the Hamptons, New York, which features dark wood cladding and a large rooftop solar array. More about Khanna Schultz infuses House in Amagansett with "atmosphere of quiet contemplation"
Canadian studio Bricault Design has created a cabin informed by adjacent mountain peaks, featuring green roofs and slate cladding, to age in tandem with its wooded site in British Columbia, Canada. More about Bricault Design shapes house to "share a language with the surrounding peaks" in Canada
Exposed concrete, steel-framed windows and handmade bricks reference the formerly industrial site of Agramonte House, a home in Portugal designed by local studio António Bessa Cruz Architects. More about António Bessa Cruz Architects replaces Porto car workshop with industrial-themed home
Indonesian studio Earth Lines has created Hilltop, a house in Bali with a palette of reclaimed native woods and sheltered from the sun and rain by an oversized gable roof. More about Earth Lines draws on vernacular materials and forms for Bali home
Curved walls coated in textured, terracotta-toned plaster wrap this circular home in Indonesia, designed by local architecture practice Caceres + Tous. More about Earth-toned walls wrap circular home in Lombok
Architecture studio Pend has completed a pair of light-filled mews homes organised around private courtyards on a compact brownfield site in Edinburgh, Scotland. More about Pend transforms overlooked infill site into mews homes that balance light and privacy
Car-borne urban sprawl justifiably draws a lot of criticism, but as this roundup of Australian houses with plenty of living space and leafy gardens shows, the appeal of the suburbs can be hard to deny. More about Ten Australian houses ideal for living out the suburban dream
Montreal-based studio Atelier Carle has completed a mountainside house with wood and board-formed concrete finishes in Quebec. More about Atelier Carle creates "unconventional layout" for hemlock-clad Quebec house
Local studio ODDO Architects has extended TH+ House in Vietnam, organising a series of shared, flexible spaces around tall voids informed by the "social intensity" of Hanoi's urban alleyways. More about ODDO Architects looks to urban alleyways for narrow extension in Vietnam
New York studio Span Architecture has restored a historic townhouse on Gramercy Park in New York that appears on a Bob Dylan album cover and features ornate interiors. More about Span Architecture restores New York residence associated with Bob Dylan
Glass blocks and rammed earth were among the unconventional materials used to create the most popular houses featured on Dezeen in April. More about Dezeen's top five houses of April 2026