Wicker balconies project from the brick facade of this apartment block in north London, which was designed by Amin Taha Architects with a cross-laminated timber structure. More about Slender apartment block by Amin Taha Architects features a timber structure and wicker balconies
American architect Wesley Walls has created a home for his family in central Arkansas that is composed of stacked boxes clad in stone, metal and glass (+ slideshow). More about Wesley Walls embeds multi-level home into forested Arkansas hillside
A+Awards: brickwork assembled by robots forms wavy facades across these apartment blocks in Switzerland – the latest project in our series about winners from this year's Architizer A+Awards (+ slideshow). More about Brick "pixel patchwork" envelops Residenza Le Stelle housing by Buzzi Studio Di Architettura
Peter Barber Architects has completed a row of terraced houses in London's Stratford, featuring a monolithic brick facade punctuated by recessed arches and balconies. More about Peter Barber creates "cosy" brick arches for London housing scheme
Dutch office Studio MAKS has built a compact concrete house in an old industrial area of Deventer, the Netherlands, for a young couple on a tight budget (+ slideshow). More about Studio MAKS builds cuboidal concrete house filled with space-saving solutions
US firm Modus Studio has extended a rustic studio and workshop building in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to add a shop, guesthouse and entertaining areas within a steel structure built by the owner (+ slideshow). More about Modus Studio turns old workshop into Manzeum guesthouse with steel extension
This hillside dwelling in rural Connecticut by Allee Architecture features a copper roof and facades made of glass, cedar and teak (+ slideshow). More about Allee Architecture creates "humane and warm" modern house in Connecticut
Carmody Groarke has completed a north London house featuring three brick volumes and a grand window facing into woodland, as documented in these images by Swiss-French photographer Hélène Binet. More about Trio of brick volumes form Highgate House by Carmody Groarke
Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). More about BIG stacks shipping containers to create floating student housing in Copenhagen harbour
Atelier Lame has added a steel-framed extension to an old stone house in a Parisian suburb, as part of a renovation that creates ample storage for an avid CD and record collector (+ slideshow). More about Steel and glass extension added to traditional stone house in Paris by Atelier Lame
The zigzagging roof of this wooden holiday home in Buenos Aires by local practice Estudio Borrachia provides shade for a series of terraces, and will eventually be covered in wildflowers and grass (+ slideshow). More about Zigzagging roof covers Buenos Aires holiday home by Estudio Borrachia
American firm Modus Studio has drastically revamped a ranch-style house in Arkansas by covering the front facade in cedar and Corten steel, and adding an angular extension (+ slideshow). More about Modus Studio cloaks Arkansas home in wood and pre-rusted steel
Dutch firm OMA's New York office, which is headed by Shohei Shigematsu, has proposed an apartment building with a "prismatic" corner for Manhattan. More about OMA reveals its first residential tower for New York
Four micro homes are mounted on the roof of a second-world-war bunker in this proposal by Froscen Architects for the Dutch city Leiden (+ slideshow). More about Tiny houses would be built atop an ex-military bunker in Froscen Architects proposal
US studio Fougeron Architecture has completed an urban residential building in a San Francisco neighbourhood that features faceted facades covered with grey rods (+ slideshow). More about Fougeron Architecture clads San Francisco condo building in dark wooden dowels
Nine cylindrical volumes interlock to form this holiday home on the Danish island Møn, which is covered in thousands of spruce logs and lined with beach pebbles (+ slideshow). More about Overlapping cylindrical and log-covered blocks form Danish holiday home by Jan Henrik Jansen
The bricks forming the facade of this tall, skinny house in Rotterdam are made from 15 tonnes of compacted industrial waste (+ slideshow). More about Fifteen tonnes of rubble used to build Rotterdam house by Architectuur Maken
Swiss architect Philippe Meyer has converted a former office building on the shore of Lake Geneva into a house with glass walls to provide expansive views of the surrounding scenery (+ slideshow). More about Villa Le Lac is a glass-walled house overlooking Lake Geneva
With many of Spain's young adults unable to find work and forced to move back into their childhood homes, a team of architects has developed plans to make these spaces more suitable for adulthood. More about Spanish architects develop custom furniture for young adults returning to childhood homes
This zinc-clad home by US studio Wendell Burnette Architects sits in the middle of a Wisconsin crop field (+ slideshow). More about Wendell Burnette builds little house on the prairie in Wisconsin