Following Norman Foster's unveiling of the Foster Retreat holiday home, here are 12 houses featured on Dezeen that were designed by the world's most famous architects, including Zaha Hadid, Mies van der Rohe and David Adjaye. More about Twelve houses designed by world-famous architects
CF Taller de Arquitectura and Merodio Arquitectos have completed a vacation home in Mexico's Valle de Bravo using glue-laminated timber beams to create bright and spacious rooms that open out to the surrounding forest. More about Forest retreat in Valle de Bravo includes stone and laminated timber
A series of openings that let in natural light penetrate a residential building in Delhi named House of Voids, created by Indian architecture studio Malik Architecture. More about Malik Architecture punctures house in Delhi with multi-storey voids
Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment. More about Odile Decq builds all-glass Maison de Verre for client with vision loss
An austere exterior conceals a series of living spaces around a central courtyard at this home in the Spanish town of Citruénigo, designed by local studio Lecumberri & Cidoncha and architect Ińigo Beguiristain. More about Paved courtyard hidden by "muted facade" of LR House in Spain
A curved bronze facade sits atop a sandstone podium at this home renovation in Sydney, Australia, designed by local architecture studio Atelier Andy Carson. More about Atelier Andy Carson finishes coastal home in Sydney with stone and bronze
An adaptable timber-framed home in Japan and a refurbished thatched-roof cottage in Germany feature in this roundup spotlighting Dezeen's top five houses of October. More about Dezeen's top five houses of October 2022
Living spaces are organised around a decades-old olive tree in this Santa Monica home, completed by Los Angeles studio Woods +Dangaran. More about Woods + Dangaran organises Twentieth house around olive tree
Spanish practice Sanchis Olivares used white clay bricks for this home in the suburbs of Valencia, which features an outdoor food preparation area and oven for cooking the city's regional dish, paella. More about Sanchis Olivares creates minimalist white brick home in Spain
Interior designer Melanie Raines has applied her experience in hospitality design to ensure the large spaces of this Austin family home feel cosy, playful and "a bit irreverent". More about Melanie Raines designs "weird and funky" interiors for Austin residence
Teak wood, travertine stone and expansive glazing all feature in Woods + Dangaran's renovation of a mid-century modern house that once belonged to singer Bing Crosby's manager. More about Woods + Dangaran brings warmth and light to mid-century modern home in Los Angeles
Architects Jan Henrik Jansen and Marshall Blecher have overseen the careful reconstruction and extension of a 120-year-old thatched cottage in north Germany. More about Glazed living room features in reconstruction of thatched Nieby Crofters Cottage
Japanese architecture studio Office M-SA has arranged a house in Akishima, Tokyo, around a series of exposed concrete elements designed as extensions of its foundations. More about Office M-SA organises Tokyo home around exposed concrete furniture
Architecture studio 3dor Concepts used a giant sloping roof to cover all three levels of this house in Kerala, India, which features an internal courtyard garden that can be opened up to the outdoors. More about Sloping roof shelters House of Noufal in India by 3dor Concepts
Architecture firm AB Design Studio has remodelled and expanded a 1950s home that sits on a boulder-studded property in California. More about Quarry House in California receives extensive renovation by AB Design Studio
A sequence of eight courtyards and gardens are incorporated into the linear floor plan of this house in Melbourne, Australia, which Studio Bright designed to make the most of a long and narrow plot. More about Studio Bright arranges 8 Yard House around a series of outdoor spaces
RIBA Award-winning homes are the focus of author Dominic Bradbury's latest book, 21st Century Houses. Here, he spotlights 10 of the most remarkable projects featured inside. More about 21st Century Houses book captures "best of the best" modern British homes
The angular forms of this mountaintop retreat in British Columbia by Omar Gandhi Architect are based on the attributes of a mountain beetle, with a hardened shell to resist the site's "desolate" conditions. More about Omar Gandhi models fire-resistant residence in Canada on a mountain beetle
Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. More about Elliott Architects uses dramatic cantilever for House on a Bay
Mexican architecture firm Estudio IPA has completed a house on an abandoned lot in San Miguel de Allende with calming interiors that make the most of a "narrow and uneven" property. More about Estudio IPA places tree at the centre of San Miguel de Allende home