Swiss practice Leopold Banchini Architects has completed a wooden shack in New South Wales, Australia, that overlooks a remote creek through a fully-glazed facade. More about Leopold Banchini Architects perches wooden shack above an Australian creek
Ell House by architecture firms Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio is a cedar-clad holiday home in rural Ontario with a gable roof that takes cues from the region's barns. More about Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio build cedar-clad lakeside barn
This holiday home designed by architecture office KRADS features large openings that frame views of Iceland's Lake Thingvallavatn, and a turfed roof to help it blend in with its natural surroundings. More about KRADS completes green-roofed Icelandic holiday home overlooking Lake Thingvallavatn
Canadian studio Paul Bernier Architecte has designed a contemporary extension for a lakeside dwelling in Quebec made of timber and stone. More about Paul Bernier adds upper level to rustic log cabin in Quebec
A lake house in the Pacific Northwest has received a complete overhaul by American studio Graham Baba Architects, creating a "quiet refuge" that prioritises views of the water. More about Washington home renovation by Graham Baba embraces island setting
Kynttilä by Ortraum Architects is a wooden cabin set on Lake Saimaa in Finland, with a glazed, gabled end that has views of the water. More about Ortraum Architects builds cosy woodland cabin from cross-laminated timber
Chicago practice Wheeler Kearns Architects has built a lake house in Michigan with a cluster of buildings clad in wood. More about Wheeler Kearns Architects clusters gabled units for Lake Michigan house
Canadian architecture firm Atelier Schwimmer has contrasted planks of charred wood with pale wood to form a cabin for brothers overlooking a lake in Canada. More about Atelier Schwimmer designs two-toned Chalet Lakeside in Canada
Washington firm Stuart Silk Architects has completed a waterfront house in Seattle, which consists of cedar-clad pavilions organised around a Japanese garden. More about Garden with bonsai trees lies at heart of Seattle residence by Stuart Silk Architects
Dive Architects has completed a lake house in isolated woodland to the north of Stockholm designed to gradually "merge with nature" as the surrounding birch and pine forest grows. More about Lakeside house in Sweden is clad with pine slats to match the forest
US architecture practice Collective Office "updated the rustic farmhouse typology" for this house in Wisconsin, which comprises three gabled units clad in black metal siding and shingles. More about Three gabled volumes form Wisconsin home by Collective Office
A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. More about Black timber and zinc house with sauna sits next to a Finnish lake
The three levels of this house by Santiago firm Hsü Rudolphy step down a sloped site to Rapel Lake, creating multiple terraces and access to the water. More about Timber-clad house by Hsü Rudolphy peeps from trees near Chilean lake
Stacked boxes clad in stone perch on a rocky outcrop overlooking Durgam Cheruvu Lake in Hyderabad in this house designed by architecture studio CollectiveProject. More about Granite boxes form clifftop house overlooking a lake in India
Design Haus Liberty has built a lake house in Italy with a series of living spaces connected to rounded terraces that extend out like petals from a flower. More about Curving terraces surround Villa Mosca Bianca by Design Haus Liberty
Architecture studio Hamish & Lyons has completed Stepping Stone House, an extension to a manor house in Berkshire, England, that is raised on stilts above a lake. More about Stepping stones lead into house extension over an English lake by Hamish & Lyons
Concrete block and fibre-cement boards are among the materials used by American firm In Situ Studio to create this hillside home for a retired couple living in North Carolina. More about In Situ Studio's Merkel Cooper Residence overlooks North Carolina lake
The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. More about Buero Wagner uses charred timber to clad lake house extension in Germany
Canadian firm ACDF Architecture has designed a lake house on a sloping site in Quebec, with a protruding terrace so residents can get even closer to the water's edge. More about La Barque lake house by ACDF overlooks Quebec countryside
Window walls surround all sides of Glass Villa in the Lake, a three-storey house built by Dutch studio Mecanoo in the Cotswolds. More about Mecanoo builds glass house partly submerged in a lake in the English countryside