Mexican architecture firm TACO has designed the Portico Palmeto studio to act as its headquarters, with pink walls, local materials, and tall shutters that open up the interior to its tropical setting. More about TACO creates its own pink-toned architecture studio on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
Japanese architect Makoto Suzuki has designed his own live-work space as a series of interlocking timber-clad buildings near Sapporo on Hokkaido island. More about Timber volumes form live-work spaces for artist and architect in rural Japan
Architect Matt Nardella has turned an abandoned bodega in Chicago into his home and studio, arranging spaces around a courtyard he created in the centre. More about Moss converts Chicago corner shop into art gallery, apartment and its own studio
Interior design studio Nicole Hollis has inserted charred black boxes for storing project materials into its new offices in San Francisco. More about Nicole Hollis creates blackened wood library for its San Francisco studio
Architecture firm Woods Bagot has used "New York City grit" as an aesthetic reference for the interiors of its Downtown Manhattan offices. More about Woods Bagot's self-designed New York studio features black fixtures and exposed concrete
McGarry-Moon Architects has competed its own studio in Kilrea, Northern Ireland, featuring a triple-height office space that is embedded in the lawn and sheltered beneath a gabled volume clad in pre-rusted steel. More about McGarry-Moon's sunken studio in Northern Ireland is topped with a rusty gabled box
Studio11 has combined industrial finishes with plush furnishings and colourful art to create the interior of its own workspace in Minsk. More about Studio11 uses colour and texture to inject personality into its own Minsk workspace
This office in Indonesia created by Studio Air Putih for its own team of architects and interior designers comprises a series of red-brick volumes arranged around a courtyard planted with trees. More about Studio Air Putih combines brick with rusted steel and concrete at Jakarta offices
Brazilian architecture firm Estúdio BG has designed its own offices, where a meeting room is housed in a timber-clad volume and white surfaces create a bright working environment. More about Compact architects' office in São Paulo features wooden meeting cube
A white box bursts through the roof of this old chapel in Limburg, Belgium, to form the new studio for architecture office Klaarchitectuur. More about Klaarchitectuur inserts new architecture studio inside dilapidated Belgian chapel
David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England's West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. More about Kate Darby and David Connor preserve rotting structure in conversion of 18th-century cottage
Following the popularity of Fernando Abellanas's self-made studio under a bridge, our new Pinterest board is filled with more self-designed studios, including Masquespacio's Memphis-inspired space in Valencia and Invisible Studio's woodland workshop in Bath. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas has installed a covert studio beneath a graffiti-covered bridge in the Spanish city of Valencia, making use of the concrete infrastructure to form a roof and walls for the hideaway. More about Fernando Abellanas hangs secret studio under a bridge in Valencia
Australian studio Biasol sought to preserve the art deco elements of this warehouse in Melbourne while converting it into a shared studio and office space. More about Biasol converts art-deco warehouse in Melbourne into space for its studio
Architects Nicholas Gilliland and Gaston Tolila have overhauled an old workshop in Paris' Butte aux Cailles neighbourhood to create an office and studio for their growing team. More about Tolila+Gilliland creates its new Paris studio in an old attic workshop
Barcelona-based studio Appareil integrated furniture into the walls to open up this creative co-working space, specifically designed to suit the needs of architects and designers. More about Barcelona warehouse transformed into flexible co-working space for architects and designers
British practice Invisible Studio has completed a model-making shed beside its self-built studio in the Bath woodland, using a combination of timber grown and milled on site, and corrugated fibreglass. More about Invisible Studio builds fibreglass prototyping workshop at its growing woodland campus
Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer has lined its new London warehouse offices with coloured display boxes that frame elements from recent projects. More about Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer converts east London warehouse into its new workspace
The architects of Bulgarian office Another Studio removed walls from an apartment in Sofia and replaced them with customised shelving systems to create themselves a personalised workspace. More about Another Studio replaces walls with storage to transform apartment into own workspace
Dezeen is giving away five copies of Where They Create: Japan, a book documenting the workspaces of some of Japan's leading creatives, including Kengo Kuma, Nendo, Tadao Ando and Toyo Ito. More about Competition: win a book showcasing the studios of Japan's best-known architects and designers