To mark the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, we've rounded up eight summer-ready homes with swimming pools you'll want to dive into. More about Eight luxurious houses with refreshing outdoor swimming pools
A large gable roof with white-painted rafters sails over Senior Shelter, a house cloaked in black timber by Dutch studio i29 for an elderly couple in the Netherlands. More about Overhanging roof shelters black-timber Senior Shelter in the Netherlands
UK studio Will Gamble Architects has refurbished The Island, an old holiday home in Cornwall that sits on a rock stack and is accessed via its own suspension bridge. More about Will Gamble Architects renovates holiday home perched on Cornish rock stack
UK architecture studio Forgeworks has completed the renovation of a bungalow in Bath, cloaking its entire exterior with a skin of cedar shingles. More about Forgeworks uses cedar shingles to update 1960s bungalow in Bath
Ecuadorian studio Diez + Muller Arquitectos has designed El Pastizal, a house composed of a series of courtyards enclosed by board-formed concrete living spaces on a hillside in Machachi, Ecuador. More about Diez + Muller Arquitectos settles concrete house into Andean landscape
Pink stucco covers the walls of Casa Tobi, a house designed by Mexican studio Espacio 18 Arquitectura to resemble a "crab emerging from the rocks" above the Oaxacan coast. More about Espacio 18 Arquitectura perches crab-like Casa Tobi on Mexican coast
An exposed concrete shell incorporates walls, stairs and furniture at Nakano House, a "cave-like" residence in the heart of Tokyo designed by Japanese studio Suzuko Yamada Architects. More about Suzuko Yamada Architects casts furniture within walls of concrete Japanese house
A timber-framed undercroft "dissolves" the boundaries between inside and out at this house in Brisbane, renovated by local studio Kieron Gait Architects. More about Kieron Gait Architects updates Balmoral Hillside House with timber-framed undercroft
Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled designs for a marble-clad residential tower in Taipei, Taiwan, that will be covered in protruding volumes. More about MVRDV unveils design for marble-clad skyscraper in Taipei
London practice Tuckey Design Studio has converted the Grade II-listed The Wool Hall in Somerset, UK, into a home and recording studio that celebrates its history as an "outlet for craft and musical production". More about Tuckey Design Studio renovates historic recording studio in Somerset
Pyramidal roofs, both truncated and not, form the focus of our latest roundup, which collects seven homes topped with angular hip roofs. More about Seven homes crowned with statement pyramidal roofs
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has completed Valckensteyn in Rotterdam, a mass-timber block of affordable apartments that references the area's iconic post-war social housing. More about Rotterdam's first mass-timber apartment building is homage to its post-war housing blocks
Architecture studio Nudes has used pink fluted concrete to clad an apartment building in the coastal suburb of Bandra, Mumbai, India. More about Nudes wraps Mumbai apartment building in pink fluted concrete facades
A concrete grid frames views of a leafy garden at this home in São Paulo, completed by local architects Gabriel Kogan and Guilherme Pianca in collaboration with Clara Werneck. More about Concrete grid creates "sequence of framed views" at Rua Polônia House in Brazil
Steven Holl Architects has utilised plywood interiors and playful details for Hudson L-House, a home for a client with an extensive design collection, including a 1910 Frank Lloyd Wright light fixture. More about Steven Holl Architects bridges "collectible furniture with built form" in Mark McDonald's Hudson house
Spanish studio Raúl Sánchez Architects has perched a blocky concrete home on a steeply sloping site near Barcelona, cloaking it in an earthy, burnt orange-toned render. More about Burnt orange walls wrap Casa Magarola by Rául Sánchez Architects
Architecture studio BIG has designed a residential structure with chamfered edges divided by a central outdoor space for the 175 Third Street residential building in Brooklyn, New York. More about BIG designs chamfered complex with "plethora of niches" in Brooklyn
LA-based furniture design studio Willett has worked with interior design and development studio Ome Dezin to reimagine a 1960s residence in the hills of Laurel Canyon. More about Willett and Ome Dezin renovate mid-century CM G1 House in LA
Coastal homes perched on sloping and rugged terrain in Spain, the UK and the USA feature in Dezeen's houses of the month for May. More about Dezeen's top five houses of May 2025
London studio Archmongers has updated and extended Ray House, a Victorian terrace in Hackney, to be a "celebration of craftsmanship", incorporating bespoke finishes including a decorative concrete frieze designed by its client. More about Archmongers updates London home to be a "celebration of craftsmanship"