Casa Boavista is a renovated Porto townhouse featuring three skylights
Skylights helps to bring daylight into all three levels of this Porto townhouse, which has been refurbished and extended by local studio Pablo Pita Architects. More
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Scullion Architects adds charred-larch tower to terraced home in Dublin
Located near Dublin's docklands, this three-storey Georgian terraced house has been converted from three bed-sits into one light-filled "upside-down house" with a charred-larch extension at the back. More
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Skylights and slatted floors bring daylight into 2.5-metre-wide house in Japan
Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has completed an exceptionally narrow timber house in Kobe, featuring an atrium that allows daylight to reach each of its levels. More
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Budi Pradono combines contemporary and traditional building methods for house in Bali
Bamboo construction is used to create a complex roof incorporating four chimney-like skylights at this house in the Balinese village of Kelating, designed by Indonesian architect Budi Pradono. More
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Mulroy Architects and Manea Kella extend Edwardian home in north London
Mulroy Architects has added a glazed extension to this house in north London, which features interiors and bespoke oak joinery by local studio Manea Kella. More
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Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti builds wooden house with chimney-shaped skylight
In a play on Slovenia's traditional wooden barns, Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti has extruded the shape of a chimney along the top of this house to create a continuous skylight. More
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10 homes illuminated by skylights from Dezeen's Pinterest boards
This week we're highlighting 10 popular home interiors from our Pinterest boards that use skylights to make compact spaces seem larger, including a loft apartment in New York and a windowless garage conversion. More
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Arii Irie Architects uses angled windows and tilted roofs for Japanese house extension
Tokyo-based Arii Irie Architects has added a series of corrugated-metal blocks to a 1980s house in central Japan, and used wooden beams and angular windows to prop up their mono-pitched roofs. More
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Fakro launches skylights designed especially for flat roofs
Dezeen promotion: window manufacturer Fakro has launched a range of skylights suited to flat roofs, including one that shuts automatically when it begins to rain. More
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Anxiety-reducing orthodontic clinic features serene interiors and garden views
Birch-framed skylights and windows offer garden views to patients at this dental clinic in the Netherlands, designed by Studio Prototype. More
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Office Project transforms Beijing factory into skylit artist's home and studio
A former factory in Beijing has been overhauled to create a studio and home for a calligraphy artist, featuring bright white galleries and a sloping roof with stepped windows. More
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Concertina rooflight illuminates Sydney house extension by Nick Bell Design
Stepped skylights twist up to a peak at one side of this extension designed by Nick Bell Design for the rear of a Sydney residence. More
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Concrete art gallery and studio in Bangkok features four-storey atrium
Thai studio ASWA has placed a four-storey atrium with a huge gridded skylight at the centre of this concrete art gallery and studio in Bangkok. More
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Sculpted concrete facade directs daylight into Smart Design Studio's house for an art collector
Geometric concrete forms collide to create the sculptural facade of this house for a Sydney art collector, which features numerable windows and skylights that illuminate the gallery-like interior. More
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Yoshihara McKee maximises natural light at Photographer's Loft in New York
Architecture firm Yoshihara McKee has removed all of the full-height partitions at this apartment in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood to make the most of a large skylight (+ slideshow). More
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Glenn Murcutt unveils first images of Australian Islamic Centre in Melbourne
Pritzker Prize-winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has revealed new images of his first mosque in Melbourne, showing a roof covered in rows of dramatic lantern-like skylights (+ slideshow). More
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Cúre and Penabad illuminates double-height office building in Guatemala with long skylight
Miami studio Cúre and Penabad has completed the corporate headquarters of a Guatemalan sugar cane plantation, which includes an open-plan workspace illuminated by a monumental skylight (+ slideshow). More
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Scott Edwards Architecture creates home with acoustically separate spaces for a Portland family
Oregon firm Scott Edwards Architecture has created a home in Portland that includes soundproof rehearsal spaces for a family of musicians (+ slideshow). More
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Studio Inches adds concrete and granite gallery to Alpine art museum
A year after transforming an old house into a gallery at the foot of the Swiss Alps, architect Matteo Inches has extended the building with a new concrete and granite gallery (+ slideshow). More
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Alma-nac creates huge pivoting door for London house extension
A three-metre-high pivoting glass door protrudes from the sloping roof of this London house extension, which is clad in fibre-cement panels to match a refurbished dormer window (+ slideshow). More