In this week's comments update, readers are critiquing a Japanese home designed by Suzuko Yamada and sharing their views on other top stories. More about Japanese house is "a gymnast's delight" says commenter
Australian studio David Boyle Architect has completed this holiday home on the country's east coast featuring a terrace elevated among fig trees, a timber breezeway, and a garden shower for washing off sand. More about Timber-lined walkway allows sea breeze into Australian beach house by David Boyle
In our latest Dezeen Lookbook, we've rounded up 10 of the most refreshing outdoor swimming pools that architects have designed for houses around the world, including a private lagoon, a "Roman bath" and hillside infinity pool. More about Ten architect-designed swimming pools for cooling off at home
New York practice Desai Chia Architecture has wrapped a house in Connecticut situated on top of a rocky ledge with charred cedar and large windows that overlook the hilly landscape. More about Desai Chia Architecture perches black Ledge House on rocky hillside
Turquoise and sea-green tiles wash over the undulating facade of this family home in Sydney, designed by local practice Luigi Rosselli Architects. More about Luigi Rosselli Architects creates wave-like facade for Bondi Bombora house in Sydney
Architect Tom Strala has completed TS-H_01, a minimal family home just outside of Bern, Switzerland that includes separate living quarters for parents and children. More about TS-H_01 by Tom Strala is a pared-back family home on a Swiss hillside
This Japanese home designed by architect Suzuko Yamada is connected to its garden through a scaffold of steel pipes and platforms that can be adapted according to the owner's needs. More about Suzuko Yamada encloses reconfigurable Tokyo home in permanent scaffolding
Gartnerfuglen Arkitekter has built a wooden cabin in Telemark, Norway, which has an accessible stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint and winter ski jump. More about Cabin Thunder Top in Norway doubles as a viewpoint and ski jump
Architecture firm Studio Saxe has completed this house in Costa Rica and covered it with dark charred wood to blend it with its natural surroundings. More about Charred teak wood clads Costa Rica house with views of the Pacific Ocean
British practice Ström Architects has completed Island Rest, a low-lying holiday home in the Isle of Wight that is clad in beams of blackened larch wood. More about Island Rest is a black-timber holiday home on the English coast
Pale woodwork wrapping white-painted walls forms storage to make more space in this 14-foot-wide house in Toronto, which has been overhauled by local firm StudioAC. More about Long wooden cabinet runs through slender Borden house by StudioAC
Architecture studio OA+ has threaded a path through this adobe brick and wood house in Envigado, Colombia that leads from its entrance to woodland at the rear. More about Casa Carmen's green roofs merge with hill and forest in Colombian neighbourhood
Bands of terracotta and sand-coloured paint wrap around the walls of Trevi House, a one-bed apartment in Rome that's been overhauled by Studio Venturoni. More about Studio Venturoni warms up Rome apartment with earthy hues
Design collective Framestudio has completed the renovation of this mid-century house near San Francisco, which was designed by architect Henry Hill in a boomerang shape around a swimming pool. More about Renovated Californian house Ridgewood pays homage to its "flamboyant" modernist architect
A staircase punctured with rectangle-shaped holes is the focal point of this two-storey extension Grey Griffiths Architects has added to a workers' cottage in west London. More about Step House extension built around perforated birch-ply staircase
Bright yellow metal grates that take cues from a mango tree detail the facade of this apartment building in Manaus, Brazil designed by local studio Laurent Troost Architectures. More about Yellow grates filter light into apartment building by Laurent Troost Architectures
Geometric forms and graphic terrazzo surfaces feature in this duplex apartment in Ho Chi Minh City that has been updated by Whale Design Lab. More about Whale Design Lab references Louis Kahn for makeover of Mài Apartment in Vietnam
US studio Field Architecture has designed the dining room of this house in a suburb of Silicon Valley, California so it is open to the outdoors and frames an oak tree. More about Dawnridge House by Field Architecture splits in two around giant oak tree
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