The corner appears to have been chopped off this house in Japanese city Oita, revealing a tree growing behind the building's walls (+ slideshow). More about Kenta Eto completes house with sliced-away corner in Japan
This waterfront family dwelling in Maryland by American studio Robert Gurney Architect consists of overlapping volumes clad in stone, wood, fibre cement and glass (+ slideshow). More about Robert Gurney clusters multiple volumes to create Maryland home
This week's roundup in our series on residential architecture from different US states brings us to Arkansas, home to a prefabricated cantilevered dwelling designed by students and a pool house with an overhanging sleeping loft (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in Arkansas on Dezeen
The metal roof of this woodland house in the US state of Arkansas is pinched in the middle so its shape resembles a bowtie (+ slideshow). More about Bowtie House by deMx Architecture has an angular metal roof
Panoramic glazing frames views of meadows and cornfields from this farmhouse designed by Danish studio Norm Architects for a working farm in southern England (+ slideshow). More about Norm Architects completes contemporary farmhouse in the Suffolk countryside
This house in Berlin designed by Brandt + Simon Architekten is covered in rows of green shingles with curved edges and features windows laid out to resemble a face (+ slideshow). More about Green shingles cover "peculiar" Schuppen house by Brandt + Simon Architekten
Montreal studio YH2 has completed a retreat for Polish-Canadian sculptor Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, with a vertical form that takes cues from the surrounding forest (+ slideshow). More about YH2 clads Quebec holiday home for a sculptor in red cedar and blackened pine
A climbing wall runs up one side of this corrugated metal-clad house in Jackson, Wyoming, by local architecture firm Carney Logan Burke (+ slideshow). More about Climbing wall provides roof access at Cache Creek Residence by Carney Logan Burke
Students at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design have designed and built a prefabricated house in Little Rock, Arkansas, from two modules stacked perpendicular to one another (+ slideshow). More about Architecture students create prefab Cantilever House in Arkansas
A+Awards: next up in our collaboration with Architizer's A+Awards is an apartment building in Austria that is covered in mirrors to reflect the facades of surrounding historic buildings. More about Hope of Glory adds mirrored apartment block to street of historic buildings in Graz
Toronto firm RZLBD has completed a three-storey house comprising two volumes split by a staircase in the middle (+ slideshow). More about RZLBD divides black and grey Toronto residence with central staircase
Air bubbles mark the stark concrete walls of this house that architects office HDPF has built near Zurich's airport (+ slideshow). More about Bare concrete walls enclose HDPF's Haus Meister near Zurich
Architects office Studioplusthree has overhauled a traditional house in Sydney for a pair of musicians, adding a recycled-brick extension that features a projecting black steel awning. More about Dark-toned extension added to white Federation house in Sydney by Studioplusthree
Corrugated plastic cladding reveals the timber structure of this house by Czech architects Matěj Petránek and Adam Jirkal, which replaces a family holiday home near Prague (+ slideshow). More about Transparent walls reveal wooden skeleton of house in Bohemia
The kitchen inside this Melbourne apartment is designed to look more like a gallery, where furniture and fittings appear as art objects. More about BoardGrove Architects designs Melbourne apartment to look like a gallery
This tiny black cabin by US firm Studio Padron serves as a cosy library and guest house for a vacation home in upstate New York (+ slideshow). More about Studio Padron creates secluded library in the woods of New York state
Architecture studio IFUB has transformed the second floor of an old chocolate factory in Berlin into an apartment featuring curved ceilings, exposed steelwork and big windows. More about IFUB creates loft apartment with vaulted ceilings in former Berlin chocolate factory
A pair of gabled buildings clad in corrugated aluminium make up this house in Linköping, Sweden, designed by architect Björn Förstberg for his mother (+ slideshow). More about Björn Förstberg's house for his mother features pointed roofs and reflective walls
Oak-covered living rooms and bathrooms clad in large panels of veined marble add a touch of luxury to this otherwise simple apartment in the heart of London (+ slideshow). More about SIRS lines renovated London apartment in panels of marble and oak
Argentinian studio Besonias Almeida has added a garden pavilion to a house in Buenos Aires, using board-marked concrete so that the two buildings match (+ slideshow). More about Casa Torcuato Pavilion is a concrete garden room by Besonias Almeida