Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. More about Green roof and charred wood blend Atelier Villa into Costa Rican jungle
San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. More about Slim wooden slats cover "wild geometry" of renovated Californian house
Boston firm Flavin Architects has built a three-storey addition for a house in Massachusetts to offer space for a couple to write, garden and repair antique scooters. More about Flavin Architects adds "creative sanctuary" Modern Lantern Studio to Massachusetts home
Leiria-based Contaminar Arquitetos has created a concrete house with an angular form based on caves found in the surrounding Portuguese limestone landscape. More about Contaminar Arquitetos designs Casa Povo to be an "inhabited and humanised cave"
Austin Maynard Architects has transformed the quality of light inside a narrow Melbourne house, by creating a greenhouse-like space at its centre. More about Austin Maynard Architects adds plant-filled conservatory in centre of Newry house
The creative director of design studio Framework has turned a neglected 19th-century warehouse in Amsterdam into a plush family home for his wife and two children. More about Thomas Geerlings converts canal-side Amsterdam warehouse into contemporary home
Glass walls and perforated metal screens help to blur the boundaries between inside and outside for this house in Beijing by architecture studio TAOA. More about TAOA designs see-through walls for Landscape House in Beijing
Pockets of greenery are used to contrast the bright "canvas" of this white house that Mexican studio Jaime Juárez R Arquitecto has completed in Morelia. More about Splayed and stacked white volumes form San Antonio House in Mexico
Three white-brick chimneys rise from this house in Virginia, which US studio T W Ryan Architecture designed to reference a modernist Mies van der Rohe house and a nearby plantation. More about Modernist and Southern colonial styles meet in Three Chimney House in rural Virginia
Concrete blocks, mountain rocks and reddish cement are among the materials used to build these five Peruvian residences in natural surrounds. More about Five of the best houses in Peru
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a house on Vietnam's scenic Ha Long Bay with trees growing through its concrete walls. More about Trees burst through walls of Ha Long Villa by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Architect Ludwig Godefroy has designed this fragmented concrete house, which spans an 80-metre-long site in Mérida, Mexico, to draw on Mayan traditions and culture. More about Ludwig Godefroy references sacred Mayan roads with Casa Mérida
Alison Brooks Architects has built an art-filled black house alongside a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire that has been converted into a dedicated gallery space. More about Alison Brooks designs Windward House to intensify the "joy of living with art"
Architects Robert Arlt and Charles MacBride and a group of students in South Dakota have completed an experimental gabled Passivhaus, which they claim is the first in the area to "sell energy back to the grid". More about Architecture students complete Passivhaus in South Dakota
RX Architects incorporated part of an unfinished building into this house with a cantilevered upper story on the Rye Nature Reserve in East Sussex, England. More about Larch-clad house by RX Architects cantilevers over landscape
We've rounded up 10 houses from across the globe with rooms dedicated to yoga and meditation – including a beachfront spot in Mexico and a plywood-covered nook in Canada. More about Ten homes designed for practising yoga and meditation
Corten steel walls, a circular window and a big cross all feature in this house renovated by Raúl Sánchez Architects for a winery in Catalonia. More about Raúl Sánchez uses clever cutaways in house at Mas Blanch i Jové winery
Architecture studio Atelier Espaço P2 has refurbished this house in Ansião, Portugal, inserting wood-lined interiors into a building that has been in the owner's family for three generations. More about Atelier Espaço P2 remodels Portuguese home with wood-lined interiors
Raised mesh gables top Shaded Rooftop House in Seoul by BCHO Architects, so the occupants can enjoy a sheltered outdoor living space. More about BCHO Architects shades open-air top floor of house with mesh gables
Elliott Architects has designed this barn-like house in the Tyne Valley, England, with double-height living space beneath a steep gable ceiling. More about Steep gable defines barn-style house in rural England by Elliott Architects