Stacked boxes wrapped in terracotta and glass make up this house near San Francisco, which US studio EYRC Architects has designed to serve as a "tranquil retreat from urban life" for an entrepreneur. More about EYRC Architects' Spring Road house steps down wooded California hilltop
Barcelona studio TAAB6 has renovated a 1930s townhouse in the city's Horta district, Casa JJA, to create a family home that merges contemporary and traditional features. More about TAAB6 uncovers and restores original features in Barcelona townhouse renovation
Van Staeyen Interieur Architecten has used built-in furniture and bright colours to create both fun and functionality in a house renovation in Antwerp. More about Block colours and hidden storage feature in Van Staeyen's Antwerp townhouse renovation
US firm Caleb Johnson Studio has raised this cedar-clad coastal dwelling in Maine on wooden stilts so that the "landscape is allowed to flow under the house". More about Caleb Johnson elevates In the Dunes home above beachfront site in Maine
Morris + Company has staggered a terrace of brick houses for the elderly within the grounds of a 17th century mansion in Sevenoaks, Kent. More about Morris + Company completes Wildernesse Mews retirement homes in historic Kent estate
Brazilian firm Terra e Tuma Arquitetos has designed a U-shaped residence with an outdoor swimming pool in the middle, while also integrating the home into a hillside. More about Courtyard patio doubles as "a small beach" at Brazil's Casa João de Barro
Toronto studio Akb Architects has designed this blackened wood holiday home and boathouse alongside a large deck for diving into an Ontario lake. More about Charred cedar clads Ontario lake boathouse by Akb Architects
Tidal Arc House by Woods Bagot has an arcing limestone facade with full-height openings looking out towards the sea on the coast of Victoria, Australia. More about Woods Bagot builds sweeping stone house overlooking the ocean
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed a vertical forest tower for Tirana, Albania, which will be planted with colourful and scented flowers and herbs. More about Stefano Boeri designs Tirana Vertical Forest in Albanian capital
A snapping turtle tank provides a view through to a palm tree garden in an extension to a former council house in Dublin, designed by architecture studio TAKA. More about TAKA incorporates turtle tank into end wall of House in a Palm Garden
Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. More about Concrete lattice screens Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok
American firm Feldman Architecture has nestled this cedar-clad residence on a hilly California meadow, and topped it with a green roof to act as "an extension of the surrounding prairie". More about Feldman Architecture tucks Meadow Home into grassy Californian knoll
Italian brand Molteni&C has outfitted a penthouse in Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue, adding built-in wooden window seats to frame the views of Central Park. More about Molteni&C furnishes penthouse at Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue
The palette of exposed, untreated materials used to construct this house in Killan, Ireland, results in a building with an intentionally unfinished appearance. More about TOB Architect builds "deliberately unharmonious" Killan Farmhouse
Large openings all along the front of the concrete facade of Frame House on the Spanish island of Menorca frame expansive views towards the sea.
More about Nomo Studio designs concrete house in Menorca to frame sea views
Manhattan firm Worrell Yeung has renovated an apartment inside a former factory in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood, contrasting industrial finishes with the "pure minimal lines" of new fittings. More about Renovated minimal penthouse by Worrell Yeung tops Dumbo's Clocktower Building
Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the municipality of Ponte de Sor, Portugal, which is covered with protruding windows. More about Projecting windows "distort the facades" of Portuguese care home
Italian architect Fabio Fantolino has divided up the fourth and fifth floors of a residential building in Turin city centre to create two apartments for a mother and her son. More about Fabio Fantolino creates coordinated apartments for mother and son in Turin
The ruins of Casa Sperimentale, an experimental concrete treehouse built by Giuseppe Perugini and Uga de Plaisant, have been digitally recorded for a new exhibition. More about Photos and scans reveal abandoned ruins of Casa Sperimentale
Architecture studio Precht has developed a concept for modular housing where residents produce their own food in vertical farms. More about Precht's The Farmhouse concept combines modular homes with vertical farms