Following the popularity of a riverside house that an architect and designer built for themselves in Australia, we've rounded up 10 other original self-designed homes by architects and designers from around the world. More about Ten self-designed homes that reflect the unique styles of their owners
Architects Ravi Raj and Evan Watts have created a monolithic, concrete-like chimney in the overhaul of a loft apartment inside a former cigarette packing factory in New York City's Chelsea neighbourhood. More about Ravi Raj and Evan Watts expose chunky timber in Spears Building Loft renovation
Creatives Charlotte Taylor and Nicholas Préaud took cues from the modernist architecture of Lina Bo Bardi to dream up these renderings of Casa Atibaia, an imaginary home that hides in a São Paulo forest. More about Casa Atibaia designed to be "ideal modernist jungle home"
A slender, lush garden is hidden behind the walls of this long concrete house in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designed by local firm Sommet. More about Concrete colonnade wraps 54-metre-long house in Bolivia
HBG Architects has converted an old granite community oven in east Portugal into a small holiday home, featuring a staircase with steps that double as a table, bench and fireplace. More about Rural community oven transformed into Portuguese holiday home
Terracotta brick, aged brass, and aubergine-hued plaster are just some of the materials that interior design studio YSG has included in its revamp of this house in Sydney. More about YSG carries out tactile overhaul of Budge Over Dover house in Sydney
Swiss practice Think Architecture has created House at a Vineyard, which includes a veranda and sunken courtyard that have vistas across the waters of Lake Zurich. More about Think Architecture completes Zurich home with lake and vineyard views
Black cobogó bricks, timber and stone cover the three volumes that make up this house in Franca, São Paulo designed by Brazilian studio MF+ Arquitetos. More about Perforated black blocks screen Cobogós House in Brazil by MF+ Arquitetos
An architect and a designer have built their own home in Melbourne to house their collection of art, sculpture and furniture.
More about Cypress-clad River House built alongside Yarra River in Melbourne
A linear red-brick wall obscures the textured interiors and art-filled courtyard hidden inside McLean Quinlan's low-rise Passivhaus home in Devon, UK. More about Linear brick wall conceals earthy and tactile interiors of Devon Passivhaus
Architecture studio Atelier Dau has created an infill extension with a perforated bronze facade for the refurbishment of a heritage-listed building in Sydney. More about Atelier Dau adds kinetic bronze facade to Chimney House extension in Sydney
From volcanic rock, soil-based render to roofs covered in shrubs, these seven houses have all been designed to complement their setting in Mexico's scenic Valle de Bravo. More about Seven of the best houses in Mexico's Valle de Bravo
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a modular housing project designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for an island near Honduras. More about Zaha Hadid Architects' residential community in Roatán features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Architecture practice Partners Hill has designed this lengthy shed-style home in the Australian town of Daylesford, Victoria to incorporate living, cooking and agricultural facilities. More about Longhouse by Partners Hill spans 110 metres across Australian bushland
Bordeaux studio A6A has created Heva, a black Douglas fir-clad cabin designed for off-grid living, in Ustaritz, south-west France. More about A6A constructs charred-wood off-grid cabin in Ustaritz
São Paulo studio Arquipélago Arquitetos has built a house with walls made of rammed earth in the countryside of Brazil. More about Arquipélago Arquitetos builds low-slung Brazilian house with rammed earth
Hole-punctured bricks bring air and sunlight into this multi-generational family home in the city of Bien Hoa, Vietnam designed by Ho Chi Minh City-based CTA. More about CTA uses perforated bricks to enclose Wall House in Vietnam
US architecture firm CLB Architects has wrapped two gabled structures with dark cedar planks to form this house in Wyoming situated to face the mountains. More about Gabled cedar structures form Lone Pine Residence in Wyoming
A number of leading architects and designers such as John Pawson, David Chipperfield and Marcio Kogan have unveiled residential designs for a development in Ibiza. More about John Pawson and David Chipperfield design houses for Ibiza community Sabina
Yellow brick walls with unarranged white windows enclose communal courtyards and timber-lined walkways at the heart of Mecanoo's housing for the University of Cambridge. More about Key Worker Housing by Mecanoo references Cambridge's "architectural inventions over the centuries"