Veiny slabs of green and grey marble help visually tie together living spaces within this Milan apartment, which has been overhauled by design studio Marcante-Testa. More about Marcante-Testa uses marble to merge living spaces in Teorema Milanese apartment
This luxury holiday home in the Maldives has an aquarium-like underwater bedroom suite where guests can watch marine life while they rest, wash and get dressed. More about Maldives villa The Muraka has a bedroom under the sea
Architecture studio NOARQ has extended a stone villa in Portugal with a bright red cabin perched on thick blocks of granite above the entrance. More about NOARQ renovates stone villa in Portugal with bright red details
Montreal designer Louis Beliveau of La Firme studio has overhauled a decrepit barn in Quebec by turning its hollow core into a holiday home for two city dwellers. More about La Firme turns abandoned shed into Quebec home The Barn
Squirrel Park is a scheme of four houses made from converted shipping containers in Oklahoma City, USA, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. More about AHMM unveils shipping-container housing development in Oklahoma
A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo.
More about Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residence in Phoenix that features a mix of gabled and flat volumes wrapped in corrugated metal, white stucco and honey-toned wood. More about The Ranch Mine creates modern courtyard home in the Arizona desert
A multifunctional furniture unit made up of raised plywood floors and pegboard walls allows residents in this public-housing complex in Osaka to customise their apartments. More about Plywood furniture "islands" are used to customise public housing in Japan
Recycled water from a ground-floor fish pond is used to nourish fruit trees on the roof of a house in Danang City, Vietnam, by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. More about Vo Trong Nghia plants fruit trees on the roof of a house in Vietnam
Tiles strung on steel cables and an inverted roof are among the quirky design features of this home designed by architect Daniel Moreno Flores on the outskirts of Quito. More about Daniel Moreno Flores creates hanging-tile screen as entrance to illustrator's home near Quito
Spanish architect Jesús Perales created rooms that overlap in this house in Catalonia, to help the resident family spend more time together. More about Casa Almudena designed by Jesús Perales to bring a family closer together
The covers of subway ventilation ducts have been used as walls, railings and storage closets in this renovated Montreal apartment designed by Canadian architect Jean-Maxime Labrecque. More about Metal grates form walls and railings inside Montreal apartment Aluminum Scarf
Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw built Park Road Apartments, which contained their own homes, in the 1970s. We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the metal-clad housing block. More about Park Road Apartments is a radical housing tower clad in "ridiculous" metal
A "dream home" built on the "tightest of budgets" by architects McGonigle McGrath has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the UK's best house of 2019. More about House Lessans in rural Northern Ireland wins RIBA House of the Year 2019
Interior designer Jessica Helgerson has overhauled a home in Portland, Oregon to include decorative ceilings, floral wallpaper and shades of green and grey that evoke its rainy, cool climate. More about Jessica Helgerson uses "moody, green, lush" palette for Portland home renovation
American studio Heliotrope Architects has created a holiday home for art gallery owners that is wrapped in dark metal, white stucco and large stretches of glass. More about Heliotrope tucks Collector's Retreat into lush wooded site in coastal Washington
French architect Jean Nouvel has designed sprawling, stone-clad residences for architectural developer Uribe Schwarzkopf to echo its mountainous surroundings on the outskirts of Quito. More about Jean Nouvel designs lush Aquarela community for Ecuador
A verdant courtyard lies at the heart of this inward-facing, dark grey dwelling by Brazilian studio Sauermartins, which was designed for a couple who love vintage cars. More about Dark walls conceal bright interiors within Casa de Lata by Sauermartins
Locally-based Lola Cwikowski Studio has overhauled this Lisbon apartment to feature calming minimalist interiors that offset the hectic lifestyles of its owners. More about Lisbon's Carnide Apartment is a "pristine haven" for its physician owners
Julius Taminiau Architects has rebuilt an old cowshed to create a house clad in thin timber slats that conceal double-layered openings. More about Cowshed in the Netherlands rebuilt as a timber-clad family home