A driveway cuts through one wing of this three-pronged house in New York state, which is topped by a roof terrace with amphitheatre-style seating (+ slideshow). More about Three-winged 36SML House by Levenbetts has a driveway carved through its middle
Four concrete boxes make up this holiday home by Paris architect Pascal Grasso, which nestles into a verdant hillside on the southern coast of France (+ slideshow). More about Concrete Maison Le Cap house features mirrored glazing to reflect the seaside scenery
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 about Sameep Padora's Lattice House is an Indian holiday home wrapped by wooden screens
A balcony shaded by steel fins projects from the upper storey of this house in Northern Ireland, which architect and farmer Patrick Bradley built using four used shipping containers (+ slideshow). More about Grillagh Water House by Patrick Bradley is made up of four stacked shipping containers
Trees sprout out of the rainbow-coloured cubes that make up the facade of this bank in northern Tokyo – the fourth building that architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has designed for Sugamo Shinkin (+ slideshow). More about Coloured boxes and plants cover the latest Sugamo Shinkin Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects stacked up cuboid volumes with different dimensions and cladding finishes to create this library in Halifax, Canada (+ slideshow). More about Halifax library by Schmidt Hammer Lassen comprises four stacked blocks
Japanese architect Kunihiko Matsuba has balanced a small white house over the flat rooftops of a dental clinic and garage near Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Tokyo house bridges the rooftops of a dental surgery and garage
World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Ole Scheeren has revealed more about the motivations behind The Interlace, an "important prototype" for housing where horizontal buildings are stacked diagonally across one another to frame terraces, gardens and plazas (+ slideshow). More about Ole Scheeren's The Interlace envisioned as "a blatant reversal" of tower-block housing
A stack of large glass boxes forms this biotechnology facility at a Mexico university by Tatiana Bilbao (+ slideshow). More about Glass boxes cantilever from the concrete core of Tatiana Bilbao's Bioinnova university building
Boxy steel-clad volumes cantilever in different directions to provide alternating views from inside this office building in Roeselare, Belgium, by Ghent studio CAAN Architecten. More about Three stacked volumes comprise Hectaar office building by CAAN Architecten
Argentinian office Estudio Aire rested concrete volumes on top of each other to create a shaded overhang at the entrance to this house for an artist (+ slideshow). More about Stacked concrete volumes frame entrance to House M by Estudio Aire
These new shots by British photographers Hufton + Crow document the seven extraordinary bus shelters created in a tiny Austrian village by architects including Sou Fujimoto, Smiljan Radić and Wang Shu (+ slideshow). More about Architect-designed bus stops in Austria photographed by Hufton + Crow
This Vancouver house by Canadian studio Splyce Design comprises a stack of glazed boxes set into a hillside, designed to maximise ocean views and create terraces on all three levels (+ slideshow). More about Protruding glass boxes offer ocean views from Russet Residence by Splyce Design
Australian office B.E. Architecture used different cladding materials to help these two apartments in Melbourne feel more like individual houses (+ slideshow). More about Stacked Melbourne apartments designed by B.E. Architecture to feel like separate houses
Stacked concrete and timber boxes frame the rooms of this guesthouse near Australia's Great Ocean Road, by Melbourne studio Whiting Architects. More about Australian guesthouse by Whiting Architects made up of staggered concrete and timber boxes
Hamburg office PFP Architekten has designed a school building with overlapping boxes that jut out towards a piazza in the historic centre of Genoa, Italy (+ slideshow). More about Stone-clad base supports stacked classrooms at PFP Architekten's school in Genoa
News: architect Rem Koolhaas' studio OMA has completed its colossal "vertical city" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about OMA completes De Rotterdam "vertical city" complex
An OMA-designed housing complex comprising 31 apartment blocks stacked diagonally across one another is nearing completion in Singapore (+ slideshow). More about The Interlace by OMA and Ole Scheeren nears completion
Movie: a recently completed concrete house in São Paulo is depicted as a luxury home from the 1950s in the latest architecture film by Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan. More about Casa P by Studio MK27
In this movie by film studio Stephenson/Bishop, architect Carl Turner describes the importance of flexibility in the London house he designed for himself and his partner, which last night was awarded the RIBA Manser Medal 2013 for the best new house in the UK. More about "We're sharing the house with the studio" - Carl Turner on Slip House