Local architect Paulo Merlini has completed a house in the Portuguese city of Gondomar featuring three gabled volumes and a roof garden set on top of a ground-floor structure formed of thick stone walls. More about Paulo Merlini Architects perches gabled volumes on top of stone plinth at Casa Rio
OYO Architects has completed a house on the site of an old barn in Drongen, Belgium, featuring a cross-shaped plan with a spiral staircase at its centre. More about OYO Architects positions spiral staircase at the heart of brick and concrete House Dede
Foster + Partners has released visuals for The Forestias, a multi-generational residential neighbourhood on the edge of Bangkok, Thailand, which will have a large forest at the centre. More about Foster + Partners unveils masterplan for forested neighbourhood in Bangkok
DGN Studio has extended and renovated a Victorian semi-detached terraced house in East London, introducing a sunken concrete floor to maximise the ground floor ceiling height. More about Sunken concrete floor expands Victorian terrace house in London
Designer Sebastian Cox has designed a treehouse in the English countryside that features scorched larch cladding, a shingled roof and a balustrade of chestnut branches. More about Sebastian Cox creates subtle treehouse from scorched larch
Studio Ben Allen used brightly coloured concrete to create structural walls and decorative details throughout this refurbishment of a Victorian terraced home in north London. More about Studio Ben Allen casts pigmented concrete to create colourful surfaces inside House Recast
Turner Architects has renovated and extended a Georgian terraced house in south London, creating a sequence of living spaces interspersed with courtyards that bring the changing colours of the seasons inside. More about Rear extension by Turner Architects contains "cloister-like" rooms built around a central courtyard
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 about READ & Architects builds retirement house that doubles as a vacation home in Japanese mountain town
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 about Arquitectura-G installs bright red family home on top of garage
Architecture studio New How has created an angular holiday home called Weekend House in Nové Hamry, Czech Republic. More about New How nestles CLT holiday home into Czech Republic mountains
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 about First tenants move into 3D-printed home in Eindhoven
Texas architecture firm Rhode Partners has built a 58-storey residential skyscraper in Austin that features irregularly stacked blocks cantilevering at different levels. More about The Independent by Rhode Partners is Austin's tallest skyscraper
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is a development of 103 micro homes designed by Lehrer Architects to provide homeless housing in Los Angeles. More about Lehrer Architects builds colourful village of micro homes for Los Angeles homeless
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 about "Not all architecture needs to scream or be iconic" says commenter
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 about Andrew Franz updates 1960s home on New York's Fire Island
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 about Christchurch's experimental mid-century houses revealed in book by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold
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 about Salmela designs Electric Bungalow in Minnesota for architecture professor
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 about Alexander Owen Architecture adds bold colour and curves to London home
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 about Daab Design converts art dealer's vault into tranquil London basement flat
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 about Studio Saxe nestles Sirena House in Costa Rican jungle