Gruff Architects has incorporated plenty of storage and blocks of bright colour into this top-to-bottom renovation and extension of a London house built in the 1930s. More about Gruff Architects overhauls 1930s London terrace with birch joinery and colourful accents
A gabion wall supports this hillside residence in Washington, which local architect David Coleman has perched above a steep, grassy mound. More about David Coleman's Hill House cuts into Washington hill "like a rusty blade"
A plywood volume that contains sleep, study and bathing spaces adds structure to this unusually-shaped Shanghai apartment, which architecture studio Atelier Tao+C has recently overhauled. More about Atelier Tao + C uses wooden structure to divide U-shape Room in Shanghai
Architect Alejandro Soffia pieced together a series of modules and covered them in bright yellow corrugated panels to form this prefabricated woodland residence in Pucón, Chile. More about Prefab Yellow House by Alejandro Soffia contrasts Chilean landscape
Tiered gardens, a plunge pool and a triangular loft are among the features that US studio Feldman Architecture has included in the overhaul of a 1960s house in San Francisco. More about Stepped gardens wrap Feldman Architecture's renovated Twin Peaks Residence
Nimtim Architects has added a extension clad in cork with contrasting pink windows to a Victorian terrace house in south London. More about Cork walls and pink window frames characterise London house extension by Nimtim Architects
Two stone boxes staggered and cantilevered down the mountains of Nuevo León, Mexico form this residence designed by Monterrey studio P+0 Arquitectura. More about P+0 Arquitectura's Casa Bedolla nestles among trees on Mexican mountain
Amin Taha's studio Groupwork has completed a terrace in Islington, London, with a block designed as a misremembered copy of a lost four-storey building. More about Amin Taha creates distorted replica of 19th-century London terrace block
Architect Greg Dutton has designed this treehouse-like, off-grid retreat on his family's property in rural Ohio to be sustainable and in sync with the surrounding environment. More about The Hut by Midland Architecture operates off-the-grid in Ohio
Melbourne architecture studio Fieldwork sought to create community-focused living spaces within a mesh-covered apartment block in the city's Fitzroy neighbourhood. More about Fieldwork completes Melbourne apartment block with "breathable" mesh facade
The simple steel, wood and glass frame encasing this Costa Rican holiday home was designed by Studio Saxe to keep residents exposed to the lush jungle surrounding. More about Studio Saxe creates "tropical atrium" within Jungle Frame House in Costa Rica
Stone sourced from a nearby quarry was used to build this house in Mexico, which architecture studio PPAA designed for two brothers who wanted to get away to "the middle of nowhere". More about PPAA Arquitectos completes "isolated" Aculco retreat for two brothers in Mexico
Architects Mouaz Abouzaid, Bassel Omara and Ahmed Hammad have proposed creating micro homes from shipping containers, called Sheltainers, for people living in Cairo's cemeteries. More about Shipping-container micro housing proposed for City of the Dead in Cairo
Bulgarian studio Brani & Desi has designed a concept for an apartment that would translate Dutch artist Piet Mondrian's abstract paintings into 3D form. More about Brani & Desi designs Breakfast With Mondrian apartment
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a modern courtyard home in Arizona that alludes to Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and prioritises "simple materials, distinctive geometries and the desert sky". More about The Ranch Mine's Weave house in Phoenix draws upon work by Georgia O’Keeffe
Architect Daniel Zamarbide worked with Leopold Banchini to design a pared-back Lisbon house with glass-walled rooms overlooking a full-height living space, as his own home. More about Staggered floors overlook four-storey void at architect's house in Lisbon
Frida Escobedo explains how one of her first residential projects, Casa Negra, was influenced by the function of a camera obscura, in the third instalment of a series of short movies about the Mexican architect. More about Casa Negra is designed to "be like a camera obscura" says Frida Escobedo
Dutch House is a pair of brick apartment blocks in Moscow designed by Rotterdam studio Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik to directly reference the architecture of the Amsterdam School. More about Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik completes pair of Dutch towers in Moscow
American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners included a pointy chapel among the tiny black buildings that form this residence in a clearing in Upstate New York. More about Tar-coated shingles cover Hudson Valley cottages by Thomas Phifer and Partners
Quito's Rama Estudio has used thick rammed-earth walls and large windows to prop up the slanted roof that covers this residence, built among a eucalyptus plantation in Ecuador. More about Angled roof tops rammed-earth walls of Rama Estudio's Casa Lasso in rural Ecuador