A sedum roof designed to "change colours with the seasons" tops Heatherhill Beach House, a wooden holiday home burrowed among the hills on the Danish coast by local studio Norm Architects. More about Norm Architects creates cedar-clad summerhouse that nods to traditional barns
Architecture practice Studio Guma has overhauled an old farmhouse in Normandy, retaining its stone and timber structure to "evoke the rural history" of the site. More about Studio Guma converts stone farmhouse into "family sanctuary" in Normandy
Mexican architecture practice FMT Estudio has renovated and extended a 1980s house adding clean white facades accented by wooden and wrought iron details in Mérida on the Yucatán peninsula. More about FMT Estudio expands 1980s Mexican house to merge "architecture and life"
Danish studio Norm Architects has created a retreat for gastro-tourists on an old farm in Sweden, positioning seven wooden villas around a lake and using glass corridors to amplify "connections with the surroundings". More about Norm Architects references Japanese temples for Sjöparken retreat in Sweden
Large rocks from the surrounding area are suspended in a gabion wall around The Infinite Rise, a holiday home in southern India by local architecture practice Earthscape Studio. More about Gabion walls filled with stone "camouflage" Indian home by Earthscape Studio
US studio Boyd Architects has wrapped a house in standing seam metal and pine boards and articulated each form with a vernacular hip roof in Summerville, South Carolina. More about Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina residence
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features House in the Fields, a rural home in the Belgian countryside. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features rural Belgian home that achieves "such a clean result"
Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has updated a house in Osaka by adding a multi-level void designed to maximise light and encourage play. More about Akio Isshiki Architects refreshes House in Hattori-Tenjin with playful void
Dublin studio Kingston Lafferty Design has transformed the architecture and interiors of this family home in Cork, Ireland, which features 1970s-style shapes and colours informed by the work of designer Verner Panton. More about Kingston Lafferty Design includes "sensual" red quartzite kitchen in townhouse renovation
Architecture studio Hutch Design has created The Maker's Barn, a holiday home on the outskirts of London that is finished with a palette of "natural and honest" materials. More about Hutch Design transforms concrete pig shed into rural retreat outside London
A renovated 1970s bungalow with "kitsch character" and a greenhouse that doubles as a living room feature in Casamontesa – a weekend home designed by Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández Gil. More about Lucas y Hernández Gil adds multi-use greenhouse to Madrid bungalow
Prague studio Byró Architekti has renovated a 19th-century house in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, adding unexpected openings and colourful joinery that create a playful contrast with the original interior. More about Byró Architekti "blurs old and new" at renovated House in Kutná Hora
US studio Tall Architects has created a cabin that has two stacked gabled forms that are rotated into an X-shape and clad in corrugated metal near a river in southern Alabama. More about Tall Architects wraps X-shaped Alabama cabin in black metal
Geneva-based architect Stef Claes took cues from mid-century and local architecture to create House in the Fields, a low-lying home in the Belgian countryside. More about Stef Claes models rural Belgian home on mid-century modern architecture
From a zigzagging minimalist home in Spain to a compact self-build project in the UK, here are the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. More about Dezeen's top five houses of February 2024
London studio David Kohn Architects has converted an agricultural building on a former dairy farm in Newton Abbot, UK, to create a house and studio named Cowshed. More about David Kohn Architects celebrates "marks of former life" in cowshed conversion
Czech architecture studio ORA has renovated a Renaissance-era house in the town of Český Krumlov, preserving original features like its carved wooden beams while adding free-standing contemporary furniture. More about ORA creates modern home in 500-year-old Czech Renaissance building
A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. More about Surman Weston self-builds "characterful family home" with three gardens in London
Irregularly placed square openings puncture the thick concrete exterior of SV House in Portugal, recently completed by architecture studio Spaceworkers. More about Spaceworkers frames views through deep concrete reveals at Portuguese house
As spring draws closer in the northern hemisphere, we round up 11 Spanish houses and villas from Dezeen's Pinterest. More about Dezeen's Pinterest roundup features 11 modern Spanish villas