Cleft House in India is split in two by full-height atrium
A "breached monolith" hides a giant light-filled atrium at the heart of this Indian house, which Anagram Architects has completed on a busy street in New Delhi. More
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Granite boxes form clifftop house overlooking a lake in India
Stacked boxes clad in stone perch on a rocky outcrop overlooking Durgam Cheruvu Lake in Hyderabad in this house designed by architecture studio Collective Project. More
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10 strange and beautiful houses from all across India
With India emerging as a new hotspot for inventive architecture, we've rounded up 10 impressive new homes in the country, from a Mumbai house clad in antique doors to an Ahmedabad villa with rotating walls. More
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Charged Voids builds stone-clad Chandigarh home Residence 145 around courtyard
Living spaces at this house in the Indian city of Chandigarh are distributed around a full-height courtyard that allows natural light and breezes to reach rooms arranged around its perimeter. More
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Matra Architects creates holiday home with peaked roof and Himalayan views
The timber-clad roof structure of this house in the foothills of the Himalayas features a pointed peak incorporating skylights that allow daylight to flood an open-plan interior arranged over stepped levels. More
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Brick-lined interiors open onto garden filled with fruit trees at The Mango House
Double-height spaces allow views of the tiled roof at this house in the Indian town of Alibag by Studio PKA, which uses a palette of natural and tactile materials including brick, stone and wood to complement its lush natural setting. More
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Neogenesis+Studi0261 incorporates planted terraces and courtyard into Jungalow house
Living spaces at this house in the Indian city of Surat are arranged around a verdant courtyard lined with glass walls that can be retracted to open the interior up to the outdoors. More
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Rippling red brick facade shades house in Surat by Design Work Group
Design Work Group has completed a family home in the Indian port city of Surat, which features a gently undulating brick facade that offers shade from the sun. More
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Pavilion-like house offers spectacular views of India's Western Ghats mountains
Volcanic stone walls and sculptural skylights are among the features of this holiday home by Khosla Associates, which looks out over a picturesque mountain lake in southwest India. More
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Samira Rathod's Shadow House provides refuge from scorching Indian sun
A weathered steel roof slopes over the gravelled courtyard at the centre of this concrete house in western India, which architect Samira Rathod has designed to offer residents plenty of shade from the sun. More
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Anahata's pared-back house in western India features facade designed as "a piece of art"
The sculptural facade of this house in the Indian city of Belgaum comprises staggered blocks containing rooms that extend out from a central plant-filled courtyard. More
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House with stone walls built by Spasm Design around a sunken courtyard in India
This house in Malavli, India, features walls made from local Kotah stone and a glazed, subterranean courtyard (+ slideshow). More
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Sliding and spinning walls animate facade of house by Matharoo Associates
At the touch of a button, the chunky marble walls that surround this house in India divide up into spinning and sliding panels, revealing a more lightweight glass facade behind (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More
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Reclaimed windows and doors form facades of Collage House by S+PS Architects
Old doors and windows, antique wooden columns and metal drainpipes give this house in Mumbai an aesthetic its architects claim is inspired by the ramshackle buildings found throughout the city (+ slideshow). More
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Riverside house by Architecture Brio is partially embedded in a grassy hillock
This weekend residence by Architecture Brio is half-embedded in the bank of a river that winds its way through the foothills of the Western Ghats, a mountain range bordering India's western coast (+ slideshow). More
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Indian pool house by 42mm Architecture boasts a concrete frame and a transparent middle
A thick loop of concrete forms the walls, flooring and roof of this pool house, completed by Indian firm 42mm Architecture in the garden of a New Delhi residence (+ slideshow). More
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Skylit swimming pool forms the heart of Bangalore residence by Ochre
Rooms in this Bangalore house are arranged around a large indoor pool that occupies a double-height atrium below a glazed roof (+ slideshow). More
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Hornbill House by Biome Environmental Solutions faces out over an Indian tea plantation
This holiday chalet by Bangalore firm Biome Environmental Solutions has walls of stone and mud brick, and nestles into a hillside overlooking a tea and coffee plantation in southern India (+ slideshow). More
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Sameep Padora's Lattice House is an Indian holiday home wrapped by wooden screens
The stacked horizontal volumes that make up this house in Jammu, India, are clad in vertical timber battens to regulate the amount of sunlight that enters (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More
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Concrete house by Architecture Brio that straddles a stream in India
A bridge over a stream connects the two sides of this concrete house in India by Mumbai firm Architecture Brio (+ slideshow). More
