A photography book by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold reveals how the Christchurch Style movement produced an array of distinctive modernist houses in the New Zealand city in the 1960s. More about Christchurch's experimental mid-century houses revealed in book by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold
American firm Salmela Architect has designed a solar-powered urban-infill house that is meant to demonstrate a new way forward for single-family housing. More about Salmela designs Electric Bungalow in Minnesota for architecture professor
Pavilions wrapped in teak and glass form Sirena House by architectural practice Studio Saxe that is set on a lush, beachfront site in Costa Rica. More about Studio Saxe nestles Sirena House in Costa Rican jungle
Greek studio Sinas Architects has built a house on the island of Serifos, taking cues from local dry stone walls to make the building as inconspicuous as possible. More about Curving stone walls allow Xerolithi vacation house to merge with Greek island landscape
Architecture office Fábrica de Espacios has designed Casa Bosque Sereno, a Mexican house featuring painted brick walls and a large net hammock that forms one of its floors. More about Fábrica de Espacios strings "big hammock" between two floors of Casa Bosque Sereno
Spanish architecture studio Marià Castelló has built a three-volume home with ceramic vaulted ceilings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera. More about Marià Castelló creates geometric three-volume home on Formentera
Glass walls and a gridded steel frame define Avala House, which architecture studio Ten has created in a sloping orchard on the Avala mountain in Belgrade, Serbia. More about Avala House is a steel-framed residence on a mountainside in Serbia
London architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design is set to add a hempcrete extension to a house in a conservation area in Cambridge, UK. More about Jonathan Tuckey Design to build Hempcrete House in Cambridge
Fleming Park House is a home in Melbourne designed to have enough room for a family of seven, but to also feel cosy when the children have moved out. More about Cloud Architecture Studio designs "up to five bedroom" house for a family with changing needs
Chilean studio Max-A combined local materials with modular construction to keep costs down on the Casa Tobita holiday home. More about Max-A builds low-cost modular cabin overlooking Lake Ranco in Chile
Bedrooms and living spaces at this thatch-roofed house in Vietnam's Cần Giuộc district open up to provide views across a pond that wraps around two sides of the building. More about AM House is a Vietnamese holiday home surrounded by a pond and tropical gardens
Japanese architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for himself and his family in a suburb of Osaka, featuring flexible living spaces arranged around a double-height atrium with a tree at its centre. More about Yukawa Design Lab's Margin House is built around a multipurpose atrium with a tree
WT Architecture has built a linear house alongside Loch Tummel in the Scottish Highlands. More about WT Architecture creates "self-consciously picturesque house" overlooking Scottish loch
A pair of Corten-clad dwellings with sloped roofs form a nature retreat in the Pacific Northwest designed by US architect David Van Galen for himself and his wife. More about Corten steel clads Little House/Big Shed in Washington by David Van Galen
Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has carved a barrel-vaulted tunnel through a brick home in Toronto designed to evoke the architecture of ancient Rome. More about Vaulted tunnel runs through brick house by Batay-Csorba Architects
Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create "a spacious void of shadows". More about Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a small west London home, designed by Phillips Tracey Architects. More about A compact black-brick house features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Studio 304 architects Gary Tynan and Claire Lepoivre have built themselves a family home in Dublin, which blends Georgian styling with modern details. More about Studio 304 designs Corner House to fit in with its Georgian neighbours
Concrete, steel and glass define the exterior of this California holiday home by US firm Faulkner Architects hidden in the trees of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. More about Faulkner Architects tucks Forest House into wooded site near Lake Tahoe
Local firm Phillips Tracey Architects has created a compact black-brick house in west London, featuring a double-gabled roof that references a pair of garages across the street. More about Phillips Tracey squeezes brick-clad Jupp House onto site of a former garage