Wood takes centre stage in this riverside dwelling in Oregon by American office Landry Smith Architect, complete with black cedar siding and an interior made from white oak boards. More about Landry Smith Architect builds wooden bungalow overlooking Oregon river
A structural stone wall separates the social and private spaces within this two-storey family apartment in the old town of Vilnius, Lithuania, designed by local studio 2XJ. More about Arched travertine wall carves up Greetings From Rome apartment by 2XJ
Amsterdam studio Woonpioniers has hidden a prefabricated wooden cabin with large windows and tall, curving interiors within a forest glade in the Netherlands. More about Woonpioneers hides prefabricated Indigo cabin within Dutch forest
Spanish architecture studio Delavegacanolasso has created a modular, prefabricated cabin that can be ordered online and delivered on the back of a truck to act as a home office, weekend retreat or even a small dwelling. More about Delavegacanolasso creates prefabricated Tini home-office cabin
US firms LaRue Architects and Britt Design Group have renovated a 1950s waterfront cabin in Austin, turning it into a full-time residence reminiscent of dogtrot houses in the American South. More about LaRue Architects incorporates breezeway into revamped cabin on Texas lake edge
Office S&M has completed a colourful extension to Overcast House in north London, which features on-trend hues such as Millennium Pink and Mint Green. More about Office S&M uses "trending colours" for characterful extension to colour consultant's home
Japanese architecture studio Unemori Architects has designed a small house formed of several stacked boxes wrapped in corrugated steel on a 26-square-metre plot in Tokyo. More about Unemori Architects creates small blocky house on "tiny plot" in Tokyo
Tigg Coll Architects has revamped the common spaces of a student housing block in east London, to create areas where students can feel comfortable being around others. More about Tigg Coll Architects creates space for socialising in Chapter Old Street student housing
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a layered home encased in a perforated ceramic wall with a series of elevated gardens that function as a natural cooling system. More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects wraps Bat Trang House in perforated ceramic brick facade
A minimalist charred-wood extension, a garden studio wrapped in green terrazzo and an origami-inspired annexe are in the running to be crowned London's best home improvement of 2021. More about Don't Move, Improve! 2021 shortlist spotlights London's best house renovations
Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed a student housing block in a suburb of Chandigarh, featuring brightly coloured surfaces and columns that reference the architecture of pioneering modernist Le Corbusier. More about Charged Voids completes Chandigarh student housing informed by Le Corbusier
Large openings frame views of the swimming pool and surrounding landscape from the living spaces and terraces of this holiday home on the island of Mallorca, designed by local studio Isla Architects. More about Holes and windows create "abstract composition" on facades of Mallorcan holiday home
Russian practice Blockstudio has mixed different materials, textures and time periods within this new-build Moscow apartment to create the feeling of a lived-in Parisian interior. More about Blockstudio creates Parisian ambience in Moscow apartment
Israeli studio Paritzki & Liani Architects has left an opening in the facade of its latest project, Eucalyptus House, to create space for an old tree. More about Eucalyptus tree slots into facade of Tel Aviv house by Paritzki & Liani Architects
Vietnamese studio CTA has unveiled a house clad with scallop tiles, which were preserved by the owners when their old home was pulled down. More about 2HIEN house in Vietnam built using tiles salvaged from the owners' previous home
Em-Estudio has built a holiday home on a steep hillside in Oaxaca, Mexico, from coloured concrete chosen to blend into the rocky mountainside. More about Em-Estudio builds concrete holiday home on Oaxaca hillside
Satish Jassal Architects has remodelled a four-storey Victorian house in north London and added an oak-framed extension at the rear. More about Satish Jassal Architects adds oak framed conservatory to renovated London townhouse
New York architecture studio SO-IL has created Pebble House, a flower-shaped prefabricated house, for the Los Angeles Accessory Dwelling Units scheme. More about SO-IL designs prefabricated backyard home for Los Angeles
Danish architect and developer Tommy Rand has built a house for himself and his family in Denmark, featuring a spiral staircase made from 630 pieces of CNC-cut plywood. More about Tommy Rand's self-build house features a CNC-cut spiral staircase
Portuguese architect Hugo Pereira has completed an angular concrete house in the town of Celorico de Basto, Portugal with glass-walled living spaces that look out onto courtyard gardens and a swimming pool. More about Hugo Pereira completes angular concrete house on Portuguese hilltop