Two white volumes are fronted with large openings that frame countryside views "like works of art on the wall" in this Menorca house designed by local architect Marina Senabre. More about Minimal white buildings form Menorca house by architect Marina Senabre
Architecture firm Bryanoji Design Studio has wrapped aluminium shingles around this angular house in a Massachusetts woodland. More about Aluminium shingles encase faceted Massachusetts house by Bryanoji Design Studio
These five houses in San Francisco are traditional in the front and have contemporary extensions in the back. More about Five San Francisco house extensions designed to contrast the original architecture
Mexican studio Escobedo Soliz has completed a simple house in Mexico City comprising two brick arms that flank a central patio. More about Escobedo Soliz wraps brick house for retired teacher around a patio
Weathered cedar covers this Vermont house, which local design-build studio Birdseye Design built into a grassy slope to take cues from nearby barns. More about Birdseye Design integrates Bank Barn house into Vermont hillside
Curved walls and metallic details bring drama to this family house in southwest London, by architecture studio Eldridge London. More about Eldridge London's trefoil-shaped house has a "sense of the theatrical"
Matra Architects has used precast slabs of textured white concrete to clad a house formed of three interconnected pavilions set high above a lake in Udaipur, India. More about White concrete house by Matra Architects perches above lake in Udaipur
UK charity Art Fund's crowdfunding campaign to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's cottage in Dungeness from being sold to a private owner has been successful. More about Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage saved by Art Fund campaign
A glass-walled garage and courtyard form the focal point of Basic House, a residence by Brownhouses in Bangkok that is designed to be deliberately simple. More about Basic House in Bangkok exhibits owner's car collection
The ruins of a 17th-century parchment factory and old cattle shed form part of a residential extension by Will Gamble Architects in Northamptonshire, UK. More about The Parchment Works house extension built inside ruined stone walls
Architecture practice Deltastudio has turned a former agricultural warehouse in Italy into a house with a balcony framed with white curtains. More about Deltastudio converts concrete warehouse into minimalist family home
American studio Faulkner Architects has completed a holiday home in California's wine country with an asymmetrical roof and facades wrapped in weathering steel and salvaged wood. More about Faulkner Architects perches Big Barn house on Sonoma Valley hillside
Architect Rob Mills has built a weekend retreat beside Australia's Great Ocean Road, with a simple interior that allows the view to take centre stage. More about Ocean House is an Australian beach house with a minimal interior
Five slim white volumes linked by glass corridors, open patios and a pool form this retreat on the Spanish island of Ibiza, designed by architecture studio Marià Castelló. More about Marià Castelló designs Ibiza retreat formed of five bright white volumes
Swiss architecture firm RDR Architectes chose corrugated metal to cover a sprawling agricultural complex in Patagonia where cows and sheep are reared.
More about RDR Architectes designs "compact village" for sheep farm in Patagonia
Steel stilts elevate Narula House, a British dwelling on banks of a River Thames tributary that has been designed by John Pardey Architects to endure flooding. More about John Pardey Architects raises house on stilts over River Thames flood plain
Architecture studio Ottotto has remodelled the interior of this home in Porto, using green metal mesh to encase its original stone walls. More about Ottotto remodels Portuguese home with panels of green metal mesh
Sloping green roofs top the two distinct wings of Stonecrop, a British house designed by Featherstone Young to be adaptable and energy efficient. More about Featherstone Young divides rural Stonecrop house into two distinct wings
A rippling timber roof cantilevers from the Dolunay Villa in Muğla, Turkey, designed by Foster + Partners to complement its rugged coastal setting. More about Foster + Partners shelters Dolunay Villa in Turkey under giant undulating roof
The stone base of a former mill has been repurposed as a raised plinth for house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, designed by TAP Architects. More about TAP Architects builds black house atop old granite mill in Scotland