Brazilian firm FGMF Arquitetos has built a São Paulo home around a steel frame embedded into a concrete wall, allowing the use of extensive glazing that offers views down a verdant hillside. More about Concrete volume appears to rest on glass in Brazilian house by FGMF Arquitetos
Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has created a pair of slender residential buildings in central Toronto that pay heed to the craftsmanship found in the area's historic architecture. More about Batay-Csorba creates urban townhouses in Toronto faced with brick and wooden screens
This house by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao comprises a cluster of five-sided concrete blocks that emerge from a forested hillside to offer panoramic views towards the city of Monterrey. More about Tatiana Bilbao's Ventura House "grows organically" out from a forested Mexico hillside
Toronto-based StudioAC has remodelled the interior of a local apartment for a young client, balancing a bright and open living space with a cosy bedroom tucked away inside a millwork box. More about White box forms sleeping nook in Toronto loft by StudioAC
This conceptual, exposed concrete home by the Office of Adrian Phiffer is meant to respond to the banal character of its proposed location in Midtown Toronto. More about Adrian Phiffer envisions concrete Toronto home with cutouts and angled walls
A+Awards: a swimming pool that starts inside this Architizer A+Award-winning house in central Germany continues out perpendicular to the low-slung volume and projects from the sloped site. More about Villa K by Paul de Ruiter Architects lies long and low on a German hillside
Featuring an irregular geometric form, this apartment building in Saitama, Japan, accommodates homes for seven families, as well as red-painted communal areas at street level. More about Balconies and courtyards puncture Japanese apartment building by Eureka and Maru Architecture
Black-painted larch clads this small house in Croatia, designed by architect Tomislav Soldo for a hill overlooking forests and mountains. More about Croatian mountain lodge by Tomislav Soldo designed to light up like a lantern through diagonal shutters
Australian architecture firm Panovscott has overhauled a federation-era cottage in Sydney, adding a stacked extension onto the rear of the building with large picture windows that overlook the garden. More about Stacked windows face a 116-year-old tree in Panovscott's Sydney cottage extension
Burnt-orange walls, velvet upholstery and handmade rugs feature inside the pseudo apartment that London design brand Sé created for this year's Milan design week. More about Sé pairs rich tones with golden details for apartment at Rossana Orlandi's Milan showroom
Taipei-based Creat+Think Design Studio used stone excavated from the site to build this house on a slope in Taiwan overlooking the Pacific Ocean. More about Stone-walled house in Taiwan provides residents with Pacific Ocean views
This monochrome dwelling in central Mexico was organised around a mesquite tree by BAG Arquitectura. More about Mesquite tree serves as focal point for Mexican home by BAG Arquitectura
The latest addition to Kartell's children's range is a set of candy-coloured plastic doll's houses created by Italian designer Fabio Novembre. More about Kartell adds to children's line with ultra-minimal Villa doll's houses
A transparent portion of a swimming pool atop a high-rise development in Houston, Texas, projects outward so brave residents can view both the skyline in front and the ground 40 storeys below. More about Glass-bottomed Sky Pool suspends swimmers 500 feet above Houston
A gabled greenhouse appears to slide out from beneath the thatched roof of this villa, completed by Maas Architecten in the Dutch countryside. More about Maas Architecten merges a thatched cottage with a glass greenhouse
Architects of Invention references one the seven wonders of the ancient world with this design for a residential development in Birmingham, England. More about Housing development based on Hanging Gardens of Babylon proposed for Birmingham
Photographer Edmund Sumner has revealed decade-old images of one of Ryue Nishizawa's most famous buildings, Moriyama House – a full-size model of which was recently installed inside London's Barbican. More about Edmund Sumner reveals archive photographs of Ryue Nishizawa's seminal Moriyama House
This large residence by Asheville-based Retrofit Design reaches away from its hillside perch to frame vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains. More about Retro+Fit Design stacks cyprus-clad volumes to form home overlooking North Carolina valley
US firm HGA Architects and Engineers took cues from Cape Cod-style homes while conceiving a series of cabins for world-renowned musicians spending the summer in rural New England. More about HGA creates cedar-clad cottages for classical musicians in Vermont
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed the latest in its House for Trees series – a property in Ho Chi Minh City featuring gardens set on top of multiple stacked levels that are visible through openings in the concrete walls. More about Planted terraces are interspersed among living spaces at Vo Trong Nghia's Binh House