Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has created a minimalist white house in Alicante, which winds through the landscape to enhance its relationship with the outdoors. More about Fran Silvestre Arquitectos references pathways for winding Sabater House in Spain
Mexican architect Cesar Mancillas used high concrete walls while creating a linear house with spaces focused on relaxation in the often-changing urban landscape of Ensenada, Mexico. More about Cesar Mancillas distributes patios throughout linear Mexican house
Seoul studio AOA Architects has created Hoji Gangneung, a series of uniquely shaped concrete dwellings linked by a raised, circular path in the South Korean countryside. More about Concrete ring connects cluster of South Korean homes by AOA Architects
Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo, Brazil. More about DB Arquitetos stacks house with wooden screens on Brazilian coast
Interiors studio Barde vanVoltt has renovated this early 1900s house in the Dutch city of Haarlem to forge a strong connection between the building's past and present, grounding the space with warm woods and tactile textures. More about Barde vanVoltt gives historic Haarlem house a contemporary update
Norway-based Saunders Architecture has created a Y-shaped house clad in Corten steel with floor-to-ceiling glazing in a design-focused neighbourhood near Calgary, Alberta. More about Saunders Architecture creates steel-clad house for Carraig Ridge in Alberta
Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. More about Tactile materials "accentuate the value of shadows" in Bolívar House
Architecture studio Wood Marsh has used curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth to create this home south of Melbourne, which is designed to echo Australia's "windswept" coastline. More about Wood Marsh creates rammed-earth Peninsula House on Australian coast
Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. More about Edition Office tops New South Wales home with "bird’s mouth" cutout roof
Dezeen's top five houses of the month for January include an "unyielding" travertine-clad holiday home on the Danish coast and a fluted concrete villa built into a Spanish hillside. More about Dezeen's top five houses of January 2024
US studio The Ranch Mine has completed a house in Arizona clad in wood and weathering steel that includes a tall volume that can "serve as a sentinel for potential forest fires". More about The Ranch Mine adds steel-clad lookout tower to Arizona house
Open-air bedrooms and terraces are raised above the treetops at this holiday home designed by Italian architecture studio PAT on Kenya's Manda Island. More about PAT completes off-grid Kenyan holiday home with raised bedrooms
California design studio Lovers Unite has reinvigorated a 1950s home with sweeping views of the Los Angeles hills, turning an unused balcony into an extension of the indoor social space. More about Lovers Unite revives interiors of mid-century Silver Lake home
US architecture studio Kendle Design Collaborative has designed an accessory building for a family home with a metal roof extension meant to frame an outdoor garden while "celebrating the Arizona sky". More about Kendle Design clads Arizona "micro building" in weathering steel
Funnel-shaped concrete skylights illuminate a plant-filled courtyard at the centre of this home in Bengaluru, India, which has been designed by local studio A Threshold to "blur boundaries between the inside and outside". More about Skylit home offers a "seamless transition between indoor and outdoor living"
Canadian architecture studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has completed a project called John Street Redo, which involved renovating and enlarging an early 1900s home in a way that is "forward-looking without erasing an old building's original charm". More about D'Arcy Jones adds subterranean garage to century-old house in Vancouver
A curvy canopy with a rooftop reflecting pool is among the standout features at a Long Island house designed by US studios Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners to embrace its sand-dune setting. More about Rectilinear and sculptural forms converge at Bridgehampton Beach House
Spanish practice Estudio Albar has used cork cladding to help this home near Madrid blend in with the scrub-like landscape of a neighbouring national park. More about Estudio Albar completes cork-clad Casa Eñe overlooking Spanish national park
Guadalajara-based architect Moises Sánchez has created a stucco-clad, cube-shaped holiday home shaded by a large tree in western Mexico. More about Moises Sánchez uses local construction methods for cubic Mexican house
UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects has completed Lowater, a house in Buckinghamshire comprising a group of red-brick forms that draw on the area's traditional architecture. More about Fletcher Crane Architects creates red-brick home overlooking River Thames