South African practice Antonio Zaninovic Architecture Studio has overhauled a 1960s house in Cape Town with designer Tara Bean, adding outdoor areas to make the most of its ocean views. More about Antonio Zaninovic and Tara Bean renovate clifftop Icaria House in Cape Town
Argentinian architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac has used folding wooden blinds and a chunky concrete floor slab to provide shade to this house near Buenos Aires. More about Concrete floor splices House L224 by Felipe Gonzalez Arzac in two
Montreal firm Natalie Dionne Architecture added a new brick facade to an apartment building in the city to transform it into a light-filled and contemporary home. More about Natalie Dionne Architecture creates Brick House from Montreal apartment building
Projecting windows and a fully glazed gable end provide views of nature from inside the black and white living space of a house in the resort town of Hepburn Springs, Australia. More about House clad in slate shingles by Telha Clarke features glazed gable end
Pavel Míček Architects has built a concrete holiday home in the Beskydy Mountains of eastern Europe. More about Pavel Míček Architects sinks house into a hillside in Czech mountains
A house with an asymmetrical roof on the Japanese island of Hokkaido has been renovated and extended by architecture studio Yoshichika Takagi + Associates. More about Yoshichika Takagi adds translucent facade to asymmetric house in Hokkaido
Australian architecture studio Wowowa built three cylindrical brick turrets with copper accents for a house in Melbourne. More about Brick and copper turrets define Melbourne house by Wowowa
American studio Roger Ferris + Partners has created a trio of wood-clad volumes with pitched roofs for a family relocating from New York City to the Hamptons. More about Wood-clad gabled volumes form Grove House on Long Island by Roger Ferris + Partners
Chenchow Little Architects has completed a house in the Glebe suburb of Sydney featuring upside-down arches in the walls and curved openings in the floors. More about Arches puncture floors and walls of Glebe House by Chenchow Little Architects
Alabama practice Jeffrey Dungan Architects has modelled this white-rendered concrete house in Florida's Panhandle on a range of architectural styles. More about Jeffrey Dungan Architects builds Harrison Residence on Florida waterfront
Reclaimed materials feature alongside brightly painted new spaces in this transformation of two Victorian maisonettes in London by Studio 30 Architects. More about Studio 30 Architects remodel London home using reclaimed materials
Raised courtyards filled with plants are cut into the facade of a house in Nam Dinh, Vietnam, designed by Landmak Architecture. More about Compact house in Vietnam contains planted courtyards
The low-slung residence that Swiss architect Albert Frey elevated above a rocky hillside in Palm Springs, California in the 1950s has been restored. More about Albert Frey's modernist Cree House in Palm Springs revealed in new photos
Architecture practice Studio Vural has envisioned a seaside holiday dwelling that is carved into sand dunes and operates without relying on public utilities. More about Studio Vural imagines off-the-grid Dune House for Cape Cod
Hand-charred wooden planks contrast whitewashed cedar in the facade of this house in Washington state, designed by Portland practice Open Studio Collective. More about Two-toned wood wraps Washington home by Open Studio Collective
Studio Okami Architecten has dug a brick and concrete home into a sloping hillside, looking out over the valley landscape of Mont-de-l'Enclus in Belgium. More about Studio Okami Architecten hides Sloped Villa in a Belgian hillside
Los Angeles practice Stayner Architects has restored a 1950s house in Palm Desert, California, which was designed by modernist architect Walter S White to feature a wave-shaped roof. More about Stayner Architects restores modernist Wave House in California
Architect Lorenzo Grifantini stacked the bedrooms of his own house in Puglia, Italy, inside a 12-metre-high white tower overlooking a large courtyard. More about Architect designs own house with white tower in Puglia
Architecture firm Feuerstein Quagliara has integrated a series of covered outdoor spaces into this country home, which is designed to provide "visual and physical connections to the landscape from every room". More about Hass House by Feuerstein Quagliara is designed to embrace New York's pastoral scenery
Johan Sundberg has designed a Swedish house that has a deliberately simple form to draw attention to its Baltic sea backdrop. More about Johan Sundberg's Sommarhus H is a "discreet and inviting addition" to its coastal setting