This house near Japan's Mount Asama was designed by READ & Architects for a couple starting their retirement, but it can also be used as a vacation home by their children and grandchildren. More
Red is the colour of choice for this compact family house on the outskirts of Barcelona, designed by local studio Arquitectura-G to sit on top of a garage. More
Architecture studio New How has created an angular holiday home called Weekend House in Nové Hamry, Czech Republic. More
A boulder-shaped concrete house in the Netherlands has become the first lived-in 3D-printed home in the country after its tenants received the key on April 30. More
Texas architecture firm Rhode Partners has built a 58-storey residential skyscraper in Austin that features irregularly stacked blocks cantilevering at different levels. More
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is a development of 103 micro homes designed by Lehrer Architects to provide homeless housing in Los Angeles. More
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a skyscraper designed by David Chipperfield Architects and sharing their views on other top stories. More
A new guesthouse and swimming pool are among the updates to a 56-year-old home on Fire Island that has been overhauled by American studio Andrew Franz Architect. More
A photography book by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold reveals how the Christchurch Style movement produced an array of distinctive modernist houses in the New Zealand city in the 1960s. More
American firm Salmela Architect has designed a solar-powered urban-infill house that is meant to demonstrate a new way forward for single-family housing. More
London studio Alexander Owen Architecture drew on its clients' love of modernism and pop art to create a colourful kitchen and terrace at Amott Road in East Dulwich. More
London architecture studio Daab Design has turned a former art storage vault in Marylebone, London, into a two-bedroom apartment full of Georgian period features that were restored with the help of an archaeologist. More
Pavilions wrapped in teak and glass form Sirena House by architectural practice Studio Saxe that is set on a lush, beachfront site in Costa Rica. More
Greek studio Sinas Architects has built a house on the island of Serifos, taking cues from local dry stone walls to make the building as inconspicuous as possible. More
Architecture office Fábrica de Espacios has designed Casa Bosque Sereno, a Mexican house featuring painted brick walls and a large net hammock that forms one of its floors. More
Spanish architecture studio Marià Castelló has built a three-volume home with ceramic vaulted ceilings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera. More
Glass walls and a gridded steel frame define Avala House, which architecture studio Ten has created in a sloping orchard on the Avala mountain in Belgrade, Serbia. More
Architects Yuki Mitani and Atsumi Nonaka have transformed an unusual bare-concrete storage room on the side of their home in Nagoya, Japan, into a multi-functional reception room. More
British architect David Chipperfield's latest New York project is The Bryant, a 32-storey mixed-use concrete skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. More
Staggered apartments and semi-enclosed play areas animate the exterior of The Aya, a short-term housing block in Washington DC by US firms Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly. More
