Slender columns support a canopy that sweeps around the front of this family residence in Japan's Tokushima prefecture by Japanese firm Horibe Associates (+ slideshow). More about House in Naruto by Horibe Associates
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Architect Alison Brooks talks about how residents come together in the streets of her firm's Be housing project in Essex, UK, in this movie produced by Living Projects. More about "The streets become big party rooms" - Alison Brooks on Newhall Be
Dezeen archive: here's a roundup of some of the most beautiful Barcelona apartments we've featured with decorative geometric floor tiles (+ slideshow). More about Dezeen archive: floor tiles in Barcelona apartments
In this movie by producers Living Projects, architects David Mikhail and Annalie Riches explain how their Church Walk housing project created four compact but light and airy homes on the small awkward site of a former junkyard in north London. More about "It's about trying to grab light and views where you can" - Riches and Mikhail on Church Walk
London-based Moxon Architects has completed a contemporary glazed extension to this Grade II listed town house in south-west London. More about Chelsea Town House by Moxon Architects
This house outside Barcelona by Spanish studio MDBA features a glazed living room that thrusts out towards the descending landscape (+ slideshow). More about JGC House by MDBA
Triangular floor tiles gradually change colour from green to red inside this renovated Barcelona apartment by London studio David Kohn Architects. More about Carrer Avinyo 34 by David Kohn Architects
The overhaul of the brutalist Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield, England, is another of the six projects nominated for the 2013 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). More about Park Hill Phase 1 by Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West
Japanese architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto has combined a doctor's surgery and a courtyard house in a bulky building with tapered concrete feet (+ slideshow). More about Lifted-Garden House by Kazuhiko Kishimoto/acaa
A contemporary house inserted behind the crumbling walls of a ruined twelfth-century castle in Warwickshire, England, by Witherford Watson Mann is one of the six projects nominated for the 2013 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). More about Astley Castle renovation by Witherford Watson Mann
This family house in Nara, Japan, is raised up on pilotis and residents have to enter using a staircase beneath the floor (+ slideshow). More about 4n house by Ninkipen!
The towering fortress of fairy tale character Rapunzel inspired this steel-clad house extension that accommodates the three oldest daughters of Austrian architect Stefan Marte (+ slideshow). More about Maiden Tower by Marte.Marte Architects
The facade of this black and white house by British architect Matthew Heywood is sliced up into irregular shapes to mimic the crooked angles of tree branches (+ slideshow). More about Trish House Yalding by Matthew Heywood
This guest house by Russian architect Peter Kostelov has a patchwork timber facade with perforated panels that look like paper doilies (+ slideshow). More about Deco Pattern House by Peter Kostelov
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed a family house in Shiga, Japan, that is 27 metres long but only 2.7 metres wide (+ slideshow). More about Promenade House by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
News: London architect Zaha Hadid has unveiled plans for an 11-storey apartment block that will be constructed beside New York's popular High Line park. More about Zaha Hadid sets her sights on New York's High Line
This boxy house in Kyoto by Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Atelier (YYAA) has a narrow body intended to recreate the proportions of Japanese government-built apartments of the 1950s, 60s and 70s (+ slideshow). More about Danchi Hutch by YYAA
Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem has renovated a 1950s house in Tel Aviv with a roughly hewn sandstone mosaic wall inside it (+ slideshow). More about An Urban Villa by Pitsou Kedem
A facade designed to look like a picture frame outlines a courtyard garden at this house in Hiroshima by Japanese studio UID Architects. More about Frame by UID Architects