American architect Deborah Richards has designed a home for her extended family in Lakeville, Massachusetts, choosing wooden shingles to clad the exterior, and bright yellow accents for the windows and doors. More about Deborah Richards creates retreat for her family beside Massachusetts lake
Canadian firm Campos Studio has designed an angular one-bedroom annex for a home in Vancouver, creating more space for a three-generation family. More about Faceted roof folds over shingle-clad laneway house in Vancouver
This revamp of a family home in west London features a loft extension covered in scale-like wooden shingles, yellow-framed arch windows, and interiors that use colour to separate spaces for adults and children. More about Office S&M uses scale-like tiles and vibrant colours to add personality to London house
A circular skylight in the tip of this pinecone-shaped treehouse by architect Claudio Beltrame in the Italian Alps allows the occupant to gaze up into the starry sky at night. More about Pinecone-shaped treehouse in the Dolomites allows visitors to sleep under the stars
Dutch studios Bureau SLA and Overtreders W plan to use only responsible materials to build a temporary pavilion for this year's Dutch Design Week, including colourful shingles made of waste plastic, and components that will be returned after use. More about Dutch Design Week pavilion will feature recycled plastic shingles and borrowed materials
Klein Dytham Architecture has completed a visitor centre and ice rink in Japan's Karuizawa region, featuring a curving, shingle-clad frontage that follows the edge of a landscaped skating pond. More about Shingle-clad clubhouse and visitor centre faces ice rink in a Japanese forest
Bedrooms inside this barn conversion extension in the English countryside are defined by the peaks of a sawtooth roof, which Blee Halligan Architects added during the building's renovation. More about Old Suffolk barn transformed into countryside bed and breakfast by Blee Halligan Architects
PUP Architects has installed a "subversive" duct-shaped pavilion on the roof of a canal-side warehouse in east London, to provoke local planning authorities to reconsider the area's development. More about PUP Architects builds rooftop pavilion disguised as warehouse air duct
Hundreds of thousands of wooden shingles cover the contoured form of this pavilion in the grounds of Japan's Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens, which is designed to evoke the shape of a ship's hull. More about Sandwich creates "ship-shaped" art pavilion in Fukuyama to commemorate deaths at sea
This modest extension to a cottage in the Scottish countryside was designed by architecture studio Sutherland & Co so the owners could invite their family to stay. More about Gabled guesthouse by Sutherland & Co extends countryside cottage in Scotland
Slate shingles are arranged in various patterns across the outer walls of the house-shaped blocks that make up this multigenerational residence in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. More about Diamond, scalloped and brick-shaped shingles cover Melbourne house by Austin Maynard Architects
The steeply pitched roof of this shingled chapel by Bernardo Bader Architects provides a dramatic worship space, which narrows towards a small window facing a grassy hillside in western Austria. More about Bernardo Bader completes tiny wooden chapel with pointy wooden roof in western Austria
UK collective Assemble has built a temporary factory at the A/D/O creative space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and clad its front with tiles made inside. More about Assemble sets up clay-extruding factory at Brooklyn's A/D/O
This house in the Norfolk Broads by Platform 5 Architects features steeply pitched gables and shingle cladding intended to reference traditional boat sheds found alongside the surrounding waterways. More about Platform 5 Architects completes shingle-clad home overlooking a private lagoon
The windswept sand dunes of Quebec's Magdalen Islands informed the outline of this second home for a retired couple, designed by Canadian firm Bourgeois/Lechasseur Architects. More about Bourgeois/Lechasseur designs geometric Quebec home to withstand blustery weather
One-minute movie: this shingled timber pavilion was created by ETH Zurich students using robotic fabrication techniques they developed to minimise waste during construction. More about ETH Zurich students create shingle-clad pavilion using robotic fabrication
This shingled timber pavilion was created by masters students on ETH Zurich's Digital Fabrication course, after developing robotic fabrication techniques to minimise the waste involved in its construction. More about ETH Zurich students create robot-built pavilion with a skin of wooden shingles
Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple has completed a coastal dwelling that features wooden shingles, gabled roofs, and concrete fins that elevate the home off the ground to protect it from tidal surges. More about MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple elevates cedar-clad cabin in Nova Scotia on concrete plinths
Stuttgart studio (Se)arch Architekten has completed a school and daycare centre in the German town of Tübingen, featuring cedar-shingled facades and a cobbled entrance courtyard. More about Shingle-clad school by (Se)arch Architekten is set around a cobbled courtyard
Architects Nuno Melo Sousa and Hugo Ferreira have created a apartment block for holidaymakers in Porto, backing onto a steep granite cliff beside one of the city's most prominent bridges. More about Concrete apartments slot into cliff overlooking Porto's Dom Luís I Bridge