Salvaged and upcycled materials add character to Costa Rican artist Juli Bolaños-Durman's renovated Edinburgh flat, which she designed in collaboration with Architecture Office. More about Juli Bolaños-Durman's Edinburgh home "celebrates the beauty in imperfection"
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans for Symphony Tower, a residential skyscraper in Dubai that will be enclosed by an illuminated lattice structure. More about Zaha Hadid Architects draws on Emirati embroidery for Dubai skyscraper
Indian architecture studio 23 Degrees Design Shift has created a five-bedroom weekend home surrounded by a moat near Hyderabad, India. More about 23 Degrees Design Shift surrounds multi-generational Hyderabad home with moat
Red-painted timber walls and a white corrugated metal roof form the "bold and distinctive" exterior of House Comet, a family home in Riga, Latvia, designed by local architecture studio Gaiss. More about Gaiss tops red home in Latvia with corrugated metal roof
Double-bullnose brick referencing the older parks of Singapore informed the renovation of In a Park, a flat redesigned by architecture studio L Architects. More about L Architects uses double-bullnose bricks to create flat that "plants would enjoy"
Local practice Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos has completed a house with a glued-laminated timber structure on the coast of São Paolo that opens to the surrounding landscape through multiple screens and brise soleil. More about Estúdio Rossi Arquitetos "transforms memory into architecture" at Brazilian beach house
Architecture studio De Rosee Sa has completed a house in Cornwall, UK, with barn-like volumes and natural materials that draw on the surrounding coastal landscape. More about De Rosee Sa embraces "quietness and subtlety" for The Cornwall Retreat
Frameless expanses of glazing break up the monolithic, angular volumes of Temple House, a family home in Australia designed by local studio J Kidman Architecture with interior design practices Golden and Studio Tali Roth. More about "Quiet but powerful" home in Melbourne references temple architecture
This lookbook compiles bathrooms with unlikely textural, material and colour combinations, creating dramatic schemes in rooms renowned for sterility. More about Seven bathrooms with contrasting materials that reject uniformity
A curved, timber-lined ceiling shelters the fully-glazed living spaces of Harvest House, the extension and renovation of a worker's cottage in Australia by architecture studio Cera Stribley for its founder. More about Cera Stribley shelters cottage extension with curved timber ceiling
A faceted form wrapped in bricks characterises The Oren, a retirement complex overlooking Hampstead Heath in London, completed by local architecture studio Stanton Williams. More about Stanton Williams creates faceted retirement complex in Hampstead
British practice Studio Weave has converted a barn on the Isle of Wight, creating a home with countryside views and a spacious living area for hosting large gatherings. More about Studio Weave designs kitchen as "piece of public realm" at South Barn in England
French design firm Studio Asaï has revamped a residence in Paris informed by the vibrant nightlife of London's "swinging sixties". More about Studio Asaï blends "French classicism with British eccentricity" in Parisian apartment
A barn in rural England and a lakeside cottage in Poland feature in this roundup of homes with highly textured facades, finished with scaly-looking shingles. More about Seven scaly-looking houses that are sheathed in shingles
Promotion: Estonian timber supplier Thermory has announced the winners of its annual wooden architecture design awards, including a villa clad with vernacular lace-like timber, and a home influenced by Japanese wabi-sabi principles. More about Thermory Design Awards 2025 winners highlight "enduring beauty of wood"
As a certain prominent American grabs headlines with his home renovation works, Julie Lasky considers why people in the US often make ill-advised choices about residential architecture. More about "Trump is not necessarily being pathological, he is simply being American"
Architecture studio Wallmakers has completed Bridge House in rural Karjat, India, a weekend home spanning a seven-metre-deep gorge and clad entirely in furry thatched scales. More about "Thatch-mud" scales cloak habitable bridge in India by Wallmakers
Architecture studio SANAA's co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, which showcases striking post-war buildings. More about Kazuyo Sejima presents compact Tokyo homes that "show how cities and buildings grow together"
Rome-based StudioTamat has used colour, transparency and reflection to bring a sense of spaciousness to a small house in the heart of the Italian capital. More about StudioTamat transforms Rome "villino" with glass floors and mirror ceilings
In our latest roundup, we explore eight homes in the UK and North America that look like they could feature in a modern-day thriller. More about Eight isolated modernist-style homes that belong in thrillers