The latest instalment in our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a concept for flying houses by Studio McLeod and Ekkist, which would allow people to move between cities and the countryside using hot air balloons. More about Studio McLeod and Ekkist create balloon-powered flying houses concept
Taiwanese studio A Little Design has converted a former piano studio in Taipei, Taiwan into a tiny apartment with built-in, space-saving furniture. More about A Little Design creates 17.6-square-metre micro flat in Taiwan
IM Interior has transformed a garage in Vilnius into a 21-square-metre micro home clad in Corten steel in order to demonstrate "another way of life". More about IM Interior turns garage in Lithuania into Corten-clad micro home
Architecture studio Taller Paralelo has overhauled an abandoned building in Mexico City to create this residence, which is arranged around a courtyard with a reflective pool. More about Taller Paralelo turns abandoned Mexico City building into Cachai House
Stacked volumes made of steel, concrete, wood and glass form this family home in California, which architecture firm Shubin Donaldson created for an industrial designer. More about Shubin Donaldson wraps wooden screens around Skyline Residence in Santa Barbara
From two precariously placed hiking shelters designed by OFIS, through to a stilted timber-frame hideaway on an old ski slope, we've rounded up 10 of the best mountainside cabins on Dezeen. More about 10 of the best mountain cabins
Architect Guilherme Machado Vaz has completed the geometric House in Afife, in Portugal, which appears as a solid volume when its shutters are closed. More about Guilherme Machado Vaz designs geometric white house as "abstract sculpture"
Canadian firm ACDF Architecture has designed a lake house on a sloping site in Quebec, with a protruding terrace so residents can get even closer to the water's edge. More about La Barque lake house by ACDF overlooks Quebec countryside
Oslo-based architect Espen Surnevik has nestled the PAN Treetop Cabins on slender stilts among the treetops of Finnskogen, a woodland in east Norway. More about Espen Surnevik elevates pair of treetop cabins on stilts in Norwegian forest
Partitions punctuated with arched openings divide the living spaces inside this Barcelona apartment, which has been overhauled by architecture studio PMAA. More about Archways appear throughout Penthouse in Barcelona by PMAA
Living spaces at this house in the Indian city of Chandigarh are distributed around a full-height courtyard that allows natural light and breezes to reach rooms arranged around its perimeter. More about Charged Voids builds stone-clad Chandigarh home Residence 145 around courtyard
Pennsylvania architecture studio ISA has designed a slender five-storey house in a developing Philadelphia neighbourhood, as a housing prototype for tiny vacant lots. More about ISA's Tiny Tower residence fills leftover plot in Philadelphia
Argentinian architect Luciano Kruk has created a family home that follows Mies van Der Rohe's "conception of architecture as the expression of structure". More about Concrete and glass form Luciano Kruk's Casa BLQ in Buenos Aires
This 14-storey riverside residential block in Brisbane, named Walan, is conceived as a stack of traditional Queenslander residences with characteristic 360-degree verandas. More about Bureau Proberts wraps Brisbane tower in a slatted screen
MVRDV has released visuals of KoolKiel, a mixed-use complex in Kiel, Germany, which will have its final form determined in consultation with the community. More about Final design of MVRDV's KoolKiel complex will be determined by the community
American firms Keystone Architecture and Casework have created a tall, thin cabin in northern Oregon that features whimsical accents and a cosy atmosphere. More about Dutch culture influences design of Alpine Noir Chalet in Oregon mountain town
Tikari Works has built a half subterranean home behind a timber screen, on a site that previously contained a garage in south London. More about Tikari Works squeezes Pocket House on site of former garage in London
Lofty structures in rural Italy informed the design of this brick house extension that Dominic McKenzie Architects has added to a home in London's Islington. More about Dominic McKenzie Architects adds tower-like extension to London home
A skinny house by STPMJ dominates its surroundings by stacking five tall floors onto a 100-square-metre plot in Seoul to create a "provocative" take on a family home. More about STPMJ stacks rooms to create skinny brick house in Seoul
This house in Los Angeles by US architecture firm FreelandBuck comprises a series of volumes with steeply pitched tops, which draw on the roofscape of its neighbour. More about Faceted volumes surround courtyard at FreelandBuck's Second House