Holman House by Durbach Block Jaggers
A Picasso painting inspired this cliff-top house near Sydney by architects Durbach Block Jaggers. More about Holman House by Durbach Block Jaggers
A Picasso painting inspired this cliff-top house near Sydney by architects Durbach Block Jaggers. More about Holman House by Durbach Block Jaggers
This dreamy holiday bunker designed by Portuguese studio Phyd Arquitectura is sunk into the landscape, overlooking the hills near Torres Novas. More about House in Pedrogão by Phyd Arquitectura
An oversailing glass roof and steel mesh curtain protect a two-storey extension and terrace at a historic Sydney house. More about Glass Loggia House by Allen Jack+Cottier, Vladimir Sitta and Belinda Koopman
Australian architects Jolson have completed a house in Melbourne where cantilevering concrete slabs appear to balance on top of a bronze garden wall. More about House 20 by Jolson
Dutch architect Dick van Gameren has converted a family house outside Hilversum by punching three faceted skylights through the roof and driving a corridor through the middle. More about Villa 4.0 by Dick van Gameren
This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. More about House on the outskirts of Brussels by Samyn and Partners
This corner house by Sophie Valla Architects and Marc Koehler Architects is the latest of 670 architect-designed homes to be completed at a new development masterplanned by architects MVRDV in Leiden, the Netherlands. More about Twisted Corner by Sophie Valla Architects and Marc Koehler Architects
Four courtyards are cut into the asymmetrical white roof of this Portuguese house by ARX Portugal Arquitectos and Portuguese architect Stefano Riva. More about House in Possanco by ARX Portugal and Stefano Riva
You can walk up one curved staircase and down another in this family home in Kitakami by Japanese architect Yukiko Nadamoto. More about House in Kitakami by Nadamoto Yukiko Architects
Japanese firm Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a concrete house in Fukuoka that resembles a half-submerged submarine. More about House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain. More about Casa Paz by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture
Tel Aviv architect Ron Fleisher has designed a house in an Israeli-Arab village that combines traditional Palestinian and Islamic architecture with modernism. More about Agbaria House by Ron Fleisher Architects
Japanese architects Akinari Tanaka, POI, Nawakenjimu and Lapin have completed this diamond-shaped house in Kokura, Japan, with a ledge in one corner for climbing up to the roof terrace. More about Kokura Tanaka House by Akinari Tanaka, POI, Nawakenjimu and Lapin
Behind a glass facade, a basket weave of timber encases the living and dining areas of this house in Nara, Japan by Japanese studio Tadashi Yoshimura Architects. More about Wood Block House by Tadashi Yoshimura Architects
This Tokyo house by Japanese architects Key Operation has been designed around the movements of the client's pet cat, writes Yuki Sumner. More about The Cat House by Key Operation
Japanese architects Atelier Tekuto have created a house in Hayama, Japan, by wrapping two 100 year-old wooden warehouses in a new faceted skin. More about Yachiyo by Atelier Tekuto
This farmhouse in Hokkaido by Japanese studio Hiroshi Horio Architects has a pointed observation deck where residents dry herbs. More about Tohma House by Hiroshi Horio Architects
Manchester firm Ian Simpson Architects have won a competition to design houses inside redundant water tanks in Lancashire, UK. More about Barnacre Equilibrium Tanks by Ian Simpson Architects
The facade of this single family house near Basel by Swiss architects andOFFICE steps back to frame a wooden terrace. More about LandyM by andOFFICE
This holiday home in Kanagawa, Japan, by Japanese studios Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan comprises two separate blocks fanning outwards towards Tokyo Bay. More about Minami-Hayama duo by Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan