Finnish architecture firm Casagrande Laboratory designed this self-sufficient prefab house to fit on the footprint of a single car-parking space. More about Casagrande Laboratory designs wooden micro house for city dwellers
Crops are planted on the roofs of these houses in China's Sichuan Province, which were designed by Rural Urban Framework as a possible solution for accommodating people affected by natural disasters. More about Rural Urban Framework builds post-disaster housing in China featuring rooftop farms
Simple black and white volumes form this home in Quebec City, which was built by local firm PARKA Architecture for a professional ice hockey player and his family. More about Quebec residence for ice hockey player includes indoor practice rink
French architect Jean Nouvel's residential development in Miami Beach, designed to combat rising sea levels, has secured significant funding and is now underway. More about Interiors of Jean Nouvel's Monad Terrace in Miami revealed as construction begins
Secret spaces beneath trapdoors, underground pools and subterranean yoga rooms feature in our latest Pinterest roundup, which focuses on homes with basements that defy the gloomy stereotype. More about 10 homes that make impressive use of their basements
Canadian firm Hunter Office Architecture has built a stilted concrete house with ample glazing, which has a layout influenced by a traditional Hindu organisational system. More about Hunter Office Architecture uses Hindu "science of architecture" to arrange British Columbia house
Architect Laura Dewe Mathews has added a staggered red brick extension to a London house, as part of a renovation that involved creating spaces for the clients' various hobbies. More about Laura Dewe Mathews creates spaces for birdwatching and painting in London home of a retired couple
Communal spaces available to the future residents of Zaha Hadid Architects' 520 West 28th project in New York's Chelsea are revealed in these images, which show a skylit swimming pool, a striated IMAX theatre and a bright gymnasium. More about Zaha Hadid's amenity spaces for 520 West 28th shown in new photos
Glazed garage doors surround this wood-clad residence by US firm Feldman Architecture in California's Sonoma Valley, an area that was recently devastated by wild fires. More about Feldman Architecture incorporates garage-door windows into California home
Dezeen promotion: terracotta-coloured tiles by manufacturer Agrob Buchtal help to carve up this dwelling in Lithuania's capital, creating cool and warm-toned areas. More about Terracotta-toned tiles divide Vilnius apartment into two contrasting halves
Jagged rooflines, slot windows and grey cladding define this urban housing complex by California studio Tighe Architecture, which occupies a full Los Angeles city block. More about Tighe Architecture creates sculptural grey apartment building for LA's Filipinotown
This family home in Dublin features uneven blockwork walls and a terracotta-clad sloping roof, to help it match an Arts and Crafts-style neighbour. More about Arigho Larmour Wheeler Architects completes "purposefully imperfect" woodland home in Dublin
The 1920s bungalows and 1950s modernist buildings found across Los Angeles influenced locally based Martin Fenlon Architecture when designing this house for one of the city's conservation areas. More about Martin Fenlon merges architectural styles for house in Los Angeles
This residence in the Hamptons by architecture studio Deborah Berke Partners consists of multiple terraces and vast expanses of glass, and includes separate gyms for husband and wife. More about Hamptons house by Deborah Berke Partners contains two workout areas
HASA Architects has turned a dark and dingy apartment on the second floor of a three-storey Edwardian Terrace in London's Bankside into an all-white minimalist family home. More about HASA Architects transforms London apartment into "seamless white box"
Daisuke Motogi Architecture has completed an apartment renovation in Tokyo that features a bathroom and office wrapped in fabric walls with pockets for storing clutter. More about Renovated apartment in Tokyo has storage pockets sewn into its walls
The owners of this Hawaiian home by Ljubljana firm Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti can clamber onto its faceted roof to enjoy a lofty view of the Pacific Ocean. More about Angular roof covers clifftop home in Maui by Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti
David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England's West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. More about Kate Darby and David Connor preserve rotting structure in conversion of 18th-century cottage
Dutch architect Chris Collaris has built a house in Amsterdam that is clad entirely in blackened timber, featuring an asymmetric gabled roof that extends out to form a sheltered entrance. More about Chris Collaris Architects completes black wooden cottage with exaggerated roof
This hillside house in Brisbane, designed by Japanese studio Tato Architects and Australian office Phorm Architecture, features outdoor living spaces raised up on stilts. More about Tato Architects and Phorm Architecture combine Japanese and Australian design for Brisbane house