Crops are planted on the roofs of these houses in China's Sichuan Province, which were designed by Rural Urban Framework as a possible solution for accommodating people affected by natural disasters. More
Simple black and white volumes form this home in Quebec City, which was built by local firm PARKA Architecture for a professional ice hockey player and his family. More
French architect Jean Nouvel's residential development in Miami Beach, designed to combat rising sea levels, has secured significant funding and is now underway. More
Secret spaces beneath trapdoors, underground pools and subterranean yoga rooms feature in our latest Pinterest roundup, which focuses on homes with basements that defy the gloomy stereotype. More
Canadian firm Hunter Office Architecture has built a stilted concrete house with ample glazing, which has a layout influenced by a traditional Hindu organisational system. More
Architect Laura Dewe Mathews has added a staggered red brick extension to a London house, as part of a renovation that involved creating spaces for the clients' various hobbies. More
Communal spaces available to the future residents of Zaha Hadid Architects' 520 West 28th project in New York's Chelsea are revealed in these images, which show a skylit swimming pool, a striated IMAX theatre and a bright gymnasium. More
Glazed garage doors surround this wood-clad residence by US firm Feldman Architecture in California's Sonoma Valley, an area that was recently devastated by wild fires. More
Dezeen promotion: terracotta-coloured tiles by manufacturer Agrob Buchtal help to carve up this dwelling in Lithuania's capital, creating cool and warm-toned areas. More
Jagged rooflines, slot windows and grey cladding define this urban housing complex by California studio Tighe Architecture, which occupies a full Los Angeles city block. More
This family home in Dublin features uneven blockwork walls and a terracotta-clad sloping roof, to help it match an Arts and Crafts-style neighbour. More
The 1920s bungalows and 1950s modernist buildings found across Los Angeles influenced locally based Martin Fenlon Architecture when designing this house for one of the city's conservation areas. More
This residence in the Hamptons by architecture studio Deborah Berke Partners consists of multiple terraces and vast expanses of glass, and includes separate gyms for husband and wife. More
HASA Architects has turned a dark and dingy apartment on the second floor of a three-storey Edwardian Terrace in London's Bankside into an all-white minimalist family home. More
Daisuke Motogi Architecture has completed an apartment renovation in Tokyo that features a bathroom and office wrapped in fabric walls with pockets for storing clutter. More
The owners of this Hawaiian home by Ljubljana firm Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti can clamber onto its faceted roof to enjoy a lofty view of the Pacific Ocean. More
David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England's West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. More
Dutch architect Chris Collaris has built a house in Amsterdam that is clad entirely in blackened timber, featuring an asymmetric gabled roof that extends out to form a sheltered entrance. More
This hillside house in Brisbane, designed by Japanese studio Tato Architects and Australian office Phorm Architecture, features outdoor living spaces raised up on stilts. More
Large windows provide framed views of Los Angeles from this hilltop house, which German art director Tino Schaedler has designed for his family. More