American firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has completed a multifamily apartment building with a sculptural interior courtyard and a monochrome facade. More about LOHA creates housing block with curvilinear courtyard in LA's Koreatown
A piece of furniture that combines a bed, a wardrobe and a washing machine is among the space-saving solutions that Naimi Architecture has created inside this tiny Barcelona apartment. More about "Smart furniture" creates valuable storage space in 25-square-metre flat by Naimi Architecture
This mixed-used building in Thailand includes the home and work spaces of a pair of siblings, arranged around planted courtyards and perforated concrete-block walls. More about EKAR Architects designs concrete-block Thailand house for vet and pharmacist siblings
Taking cues from farmland in Upstate New York, Manhattan architecture studio Gluck+ organised simple volumes of this home in a grid-like array, orienting the residence and detached studio towards a nearby pond. More about Glass corridors connect hemlock-clad cubes at New York artist residence by Gluck+
Australian studio Make Architecture has added a brick extension to a Victorian cottage in Melbourne that bounds the street on one side and curves around a secluded courtyard on the other. More about Perimeter House encloses private courtyard and plunge pool in Melbourne
This bunker-like house in South Tyrol by local studio Bergmeisterwolf features an angular cutout that shelters a balcony overlooking the nearby valley. More about Monolithic concrete house by Bergmeisterwolf emerges from an Alpine hillside
Two outdoor spaces bookend this longitudinal Canadian home by Atelier Pierre Thibault, which nestles into the ground at one end and is raised up on pilotis at the other. More about Atelier Pierre Thibault completes long narrow home in Quebec forest
Boston-based Stern McCafferty Architects has overhauled a country home in Massachusetts, transforming the layout to showcase a collection of art work and expand the living areas into a bright annex. More about Stern McCafferty Architects converts entrance of old Massachusetts house into a gallery
This week's roundup from Pinterest focuses on micro living spaces that show how to do a lot with a little, from a bedroom in a timber box to a studio in Poland measuring just 13 square metres. More about 10 of the tiniest bedrooms from Dezeen's Pinterest boards
British interiors studio Black & Milk has redesigned an apartment for a city trader in Canaletto Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper designed by UNStudio on London's City Road. More about Black & Milk creates understated bachelor pad in London's Canaletto Tower
The curving corrugated-metal exterior of this house in Melbourne by local studio Tandem forms a continuous surface that encloses small pocket gardens. More about Tandem's Melbourne house features folded cladding interrupted by rusty steel window frames
Spanish architecture studio Pauzarq uncovered the original concrete girders of this apartment in Bilbao to map its new broken-plan layout. More about Concrete girders and glass partition walls carve up this broken-plan apartment in Bilbao
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for a residential complex on Mexico's Riviera Maya, based on traditional Mayan design and surrounded by tropical woodland. More about Zaha Hadid Architects plans residences in tropical setting near Cancún
Arched doorways, sculptural chimneys and a pyramid-shaped roof are among the quirky details that architecture studio Kennedy Nolan has used to add character to this east Melbourne home. More about Kennedy Nolan completes Arts and Crafts-inspired home in Melbourne
Sergey Makhno Architects has revealed these painterly renderings of a weathering steel holiday home nestled in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains. More about Sergey Makhno Architects reveals atmospheric visuals of Ukrainian mountain residence
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. More about Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA's homeless and disabled veterans
London studio Trevor Horne Architects has completed a gallery and apartment building on the site of the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, featuring folded brick walls topped with a glazed events space. More about Trevor Horne Architects completes 12-sided art gallery in south London park
Brightly coloured niches define living spaces inside these three compact studio apartments, which Portuguese practice Waataa has created inside a former office building in Lisbon. More about Waataa transforms Lisbon offices into compact studio apartments with fold-out furniture
Danish retailer Vipp has created a factory-made, metal-and-glass micro dwelling that comes filled with the company's line of homeware products. More about Vipp prefabricated cabins designed as "battery-charging stations for humans"
Dezeen is giving away five copies of Building Community: New Apartment Architecture by Michael Webb, which charts the growth of terraced towers, social housing, luxury high-rises and other contemporary apartment buildings. More about Competition: win a book documenting the evolution of the modern apartment