Architecture studio Akb Architects has created a cluster of silvered cedar buildings on a remote archipelago in Ontario, Canada, as a summer home for a kite surfer. More about Whistling Wind Island by Akb Architects is "surrounded by open waters and expansive sky"
Local studio Omar Vergara Taller and designer Renata de Miguel have designed a brick home for the residents to age in place outside of Mexico City. More about Omar Vergara Taller and Renata de Miguel create brick house as "dignified environment for ageing"
Lumpy recycled plastic furniture and circular skylights characterise this sunken London house, which designer James Shaw concealed on a 60-square-metre plot for himself and his family. More about James Shaw's light-filled London home is almost entirely underground
Site constraints and local architecture guided the angular form of Mesh House, a copper-clad home that London studio Alison Brooks Architects has completed in Belsize Park. More about Alison Brooks Architects creates copper-clad London home with "folding geometry"
Brussels studio Madam Architectuur has renovated and extended a bungalow near Aalst, updating its exterior with bright red-painted timber that is "striking yet modest". More about Madam Architectuur updates Belgian bungalow with red-timber cladding
Local timber-framed buildings influenced the geometric form of Water Farm, a house that architecture practice Studio Bark has added to a family farm in Suffolk. More about Origami-like roof tops timber home in Suffolk by Studio Bark
A crescent-shaped volume will enclose this holiday home, which architecture studio Snøhetta has designed for hospitality brand Not A Hotel in a ski resort on Hokkaido Island, Japan. More about Snøhetta designs sweeping holiday home for foothills of Mount Yōtei
An Ettore Sottsass gridded feature wall and a sculptural green ladder characterise this 1920s Dutch house, which interiors firm DAB Studio designed to reference the Amsterdam School. More about DAB Studio adds contemporary touches to Dutch home from Amsterdam School period
Architecture studio Edition Office has completed Naples Street House, a multi-generational home in Melbourne designed as a "carved solid" wrapped in bricks. More about Edition Office cloaks multi-generational Melbourne home with pale bricks
US studio PJCArchitecture has collaborated with local studio Juan Pablo Ribadeneira Mora Arquitecto on a two-toned house with a brick base in Quito, Ecuador. More about Brick and stucco meet for "harmonious flow" of Quito house
Australian practice SSdH has completed Stewart House, the renovation of a home in Melbourne that preserves the brick-clad building's original 1970s character. More about SSdH renovates "tectonic and functional" 1970s house in Melbourne
Thick walls of exposed concrete create a buffer from the surrounding city at House in Nishizaki, Japan, which has been completed by architecture practice Studio Cochi Architects. More about Studio Cochi Architects creates raw concrete house in Japan
Heavy timber, wood and brick are among the materials used by US studio Heliotrope to create an extension to a historic 1930s home that was originally built by a Norwegian ship captain. More about Heliotrope uses "warm and subdued" materials for Seattle house extension
Lisbon-based studio SIA Arquitectura has completed Casa da Encosta in Grândola, Portugal, which has a series of lime-rendered volumes wrapped around a central courtyard. More about SIA Arquitectura uses lime render to "echo the sandy landscape" surrounding coastal home
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a wooden house in Estonia. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features a "deliciously sophisticated" house in Estonia
Domestico Estudio has arranged a double-gabled house clad in grey bricks in a way that preserves the surrounding forest in Hidalgo, Mexico. More about Domestico Estudio clads house with grey brick in Mexican forest
A series of intersecting blocks and voids form House of Courtyards, which Indian practice Studio VDGA has added to a neighbourhood in Dubai. More about Studio VDGA arranges blocky Dubai home around sequence of courtyards
The colours of New Orleans' iconic streetcars informed the decor palette chosen by local studio Office La for this bright pink house. More about Office La draws on "special magic" of New Orleans for colourful house
A blocky concrete form and cutout courtyards define House in Tsurumi-ku, a family home that Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has added to a sloping street corner in Osaka. More about FujiwaraMuro Architects overlaps concrete boxes to form Osaka house
On a Newfoundland peninsula only accessible by boat or on foot, Toronto studio Reflect Architecture has transformed a pair of century-old saltbox houses into a flexible vacation home. More about Reflect Architecture modernises remote saltbox houses on Newfoundland seafront