Architype builds eco-friendly archive for Imperial War Museum's collection
The Imperial War Museum has a new archive in Cambridgeshire, England, called the IWM Paper Store, which is the most airtight building in the world. More
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Pace Jefford Moore founder builds himself bright orange Passivhaus in south London
Architect Chris Moore has built an environmentally friendly home with bright orange walls in south London, which has become controversial after being shortlisted for this year's Carbuncle Cup. More
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Chris Price's black TreeHaus staggers down wooded hill in Utah
Dark-stained cedar planks cover a series of volumes that are stepped and rotated down a slope in a Utah forest, forming a house for architect Chris Price and his family. More
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Buckhorn Place's light-filled interiors complement Whistler snowscapes
Canadian firm Burgers Architecture constructed this mountainside residence from prefabricated volumes so it could be quickly assembled between British Columbia's snow seasons. More
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Larch-covered prefab house designed by Karawitz to bring city feel to Paris suburbs
Lofty interiors and a folded black steel staircase feature behind the larch-clad walls of this gabled house, designed by Karawitz and situated outside Paris. More
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Four angular white volumes form house in Mallorca by OHLAB
Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab has completed a house on the Spanish island of Mallorca, made up of white blocks that are all oriented towards different viewpoints (+ slideshow). More
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Pad Studio creates prefabricated dwelling to comply with New Forest housing regulation
This chestnut-clad home by Pad Studio was prefabricated offsite before being craned into a clearing in the New Forest, a stretch of protected woodland in the English county of Hampshire (+ slideshow). More
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House Zilvar by ASGK Design is an angular wooden home in the Czech countryside
A+Awards: next up in our collaboration with Architizer is this energy-efficient wooden home on the outskirts of a small village in the Czech Republic, which was one of the private houses recognised in this year's A+Awards (+ slideshow). More
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Balconies and full-storey windows added to villa in a former Dutch museum
Architects Paul de Ruiter and Chris Collaris have transformed a former private museum in Rotterdam into an energy-neutral townhouse, featuring outdoor spaces on each level of its remodelled rear facade ( + slideshow). More
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Hemsworth creates all-wood Passivhaus factory in a mountainous region of Canada
Canadian firm Hemsworth Architecture has completed a factory in British Columbia that utilises the products created within the facility: prefabricated wall panels intended for eco-friendly Passivhaus construction (+ slideshow). More
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Studio 804 builds Kansas home designed to achieve net-zero energy consumption
Students in a design-and-build programme at the University of Kansas have completed a family dwelling intended to demonstrate a more responsible approach to house building (+ slideshow). More
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Go Logic builds a wooden house in a forest clearing in Maine
US studio Go Logic has completed a three-bedroom home in New England, featuring angled roofs, a covered walkway and glazing that offers expansive views of the surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). More
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Passivhaus community centre by Guillaume Ramillien Architecture is clad in grass and timber
Grass blankets the roof of this low-energy community centre by Guillaume Ramillien Architecture, which is set in the centre of a new development to the south-east of Paris (+ slideshow). More
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Gresford Architects completes energy-efficient home modelled on a traditional barn
This English countryside residence was designed by Gresford Architects to be self-sufficient, but to still look and feel like a traditional, "normal" house (+ slideshow). More
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Cantilevered timber house by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes overlooks Barcelona mountains
A long strip of glazing runs along the front of this cantilevered Spanish house by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes, giving the two siblings who inhabit it views of a mountain range near Barcelona (+ slideshow). More
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Day House by Paul Archer Design is a zinc-clad home slotted into an existing London terrace
This zinc-clad mews house in London by Paul Archer Design looks like a two-storey home from the front, but actually contains four storeys inside (+ slideshow). More
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The Spaceship Home by NOEM is a shiny elevated structure influenced by sci-fi movies
Barcelona studio NOEM has designed a home for a film director and science-fiction fan that resembles a spaceship raised above its forested site in a suburb of Madrid (+ slideshow). More
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Brutopia is an aluminium-clad apartment complex built by a cooperative in Brussels
This housing project in Brussels was funded and developed by its residents, to a design by local studio Stekke + Fraas based on the principles of "durability, prosperity, ecology and social diversity" (+ slideshow). More
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Every occupant has their own domain in South Korean home by Engineforce Architects
A trio of overlapping buildings all pointed in different directions make up this house in South Korea, designed by Engineforce Architects to accommodate a family of three (+ slideshow). More
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Cedar-clad field station by Go Logic houses University of Chicago laboratory
This energy-efficient laboratory by architecture office Go Logic is clad in pale cedar to reference agricultural buildings found close to its site in a remote forest clearing in Michigan (+ slideshow). More
