House of Slope by FujiwaraMuro Architects
A sloping corridor coils around the inside of a house in Osaka to connect three staggered storeys. More about House of Slope by FujiwaraMuro Architects
A sloping corridor coils around the inside of a house in Osaka to connect three staggered storeys. More about House of Slope by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Here's the next house in the series of eleven by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands. More about V12K0102 by Pasel Kuenzel Architects
The rooms of a black and white house in California lead out to a series of stepped terraces with a view of the famous Hollywood sign. More about Nakahouse by XTEN Architecture
Stairs lead past lumpy cork-covered walls to a rooftop swimming pool at a house in the south of France by architect Raphaëlle Segond. More about Maison Beauvallon by Raphaëlle Segond
Stuttgart architects (se)arch have completed a house in Germany with an exposed concrete base and cedar shingle-clad upper walls (photographs by Zooey Braun). More about House F11 by (se)arch
Residents at this remote Australian lodge can step straight out of bed to the side of a long narrow outdoor pool. More about Beached House by BKK Architects
This house by Masahiro Kinoshita of KINO Architects comprises four blocks branching off from a central living and dining room, with an attic above each one. More about Branch House by KINO Architects
Large folding doors open this woodland house outside Stockholm onto a decked terrace that is shaded by a folding fabric canopy. More about Wooden house by Schlyter/Gezelius Arkitektkontor
Spotlights at the ends of tentacle-like cables illuminate the client's collection of paintings and sculptures inside a seafront apartment in Belgium. More about Seaside Apartment by Ooze
Lisbon studio Orgânica Arquitectura have completed a two-storey residence behind the solid stone walls of an otherwise ruined house in Sintra, Portugal. More about Cabrela House by Orgânica Arquitectura
A stainless steel net takes the place of a banister around the staircase and first floor corridor of this apartment in Prague. More about Rounded Loft by A1 Architects
Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here's an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. More about Diamond Beach House by Bourne Blue Architecture
Herringbone brickwork and fretted screens decorate the facade of two apartment blocks in Prague. More about Apartment building by Znamení Čtyř
Long, narrow windows cut across the sides of a house in Okayama, Japan, to reveal the locations of internal walls and floors. More about Black Slit House by Three.Ball.Cascade
A cedar-clad house near Seoul by Korean architects AND spirals up from beneath the ground. More about Villa Topoject by AND
The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman's hat pulled low over his eyes. More about Just K by Architekten Martenson und Nagel Theissen
Following our earlier story about an apartment with the appearance of an elegant building site, here's another renovated flat in Japan that appears to be unfinished. More about House in Kamimachi by Camp Design Inc.
Folding back these perforated screens reconfigures an apartment that's combined with a dance and choreography studio near Paris. More about Apartment for a dancer and choreographer by CUT Architectures
Rainwater slides down into the central folds of a plunging roof at this Dallas house, draining into a collection tank for reuse. More about UR22 by Vincent Snyder Architects
Wall coverings have been peeled away to reveal a vaulted stone ceiling that's several hundred years old inside this refurbished apartment in Tel Aviv. More about Jaffa Flat by Pitsou Kedem