With climate change threatening ski towns around the world, recent design graduate Tanay Wadodkar has created a small-scale geoengineering intervention in the form of snow-generating stickers. More about Snow-generating stickers help fight climate change effects in ski resorts
Swedish mobility company Vidde has developed an electric snowmobile in partnership with Italian design studio Pininfarina that aims to minimise carbon emissions while being fun to drive. More about Pininfarina designs "world's cleanest snowmobile" for Vidde
Japanese studio Kei Kaihoh Architects has completed a timber-framed storage facility in Joetsu City that offers rice farmers a way to refrigerate their harvest without relying on gas or electricity. More about Local cedar forms snow-cooled rice warehouse in Niigata Prefecture
Montreal architecture studio Nós has completed a multi-generational home in Vermont's Green Mountains named Three Summits, which is made up of three pitched-roof structures connected by one-storey walkways. More about Three connected cabins form multi-generational home in Vermont mountains
Brooklyn studio Elizabeth Roberts Architects has completed a cedar alpine house in the Catskills Mountains that connects two gabled forms underground. More about Elizabeth Roberts combines two buildings into one for a Catskills ski house
Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos has reused the foundations of a previous building project for this holiday home in Chile, which can accommodate up to 12 guests. More about Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos completes Chilean ski cabin atop reused foundations
Winter is here in the northern hemisphere, so we've updated our Pinterest board depicting snowy architecture scenes. The board features dozens of projects including mountain cabins, ski lodges and cosy winter retreats. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our snow-scenes board to see more. More about View snowy architecture scenes on our Pinterest board
US researchers have invented a nanogenerator that could one day be added to solar panels to keep them producing energy when covered in snow. More about Snow nanogenerator would allow solar panels to generate energy on wintry days
Visitors to Stockholm Design Week can clamber over a snowy landscape without getting wet, in an installation created for Tarkett by Note Design Studio. More about Note Design Studio creates artificial snow dunes on rooftop in Stockholm
Three volumes clad in pale cedar form this holiday home for skiing in Quebec's Laurentian Mountains, which Montreal-based studio YH2 has arranged to make the most of views to its forested surrounds. More about YH2 nestles cedar-clad Triptych ski retreat into snowy Quebec woods
Network of Architecture has added seven new Alpine chalets in an expansion of the Zallinger resort in northern Italy. More about NOA extends historic Alpine retreat with cluster of cosy wooden chalets
A humble cottage on the edge of a lake in the Scottish Highlands has been named as the UK's best house of 2018. More about "Breathtaking" off-grid Lochside House wins RIBA House of the Year 2018
The brothers that commissioned Quebec City-based Atelier Pierre Thibault to create them a shared weekend house each have a separate black block to accommodate their family. More about Two brothers share La Fraternelle retreat by Atelier Pierre Thibault
A record-breaking 31-metre-high ice tower has been installed at the annual winter festival in Harbin, China, featuring a shape inspired by the flounces of a flamenco dancer's dress. More about World's tallest ice tower built with the shape of a flamenco dress
Jun Igarashi Architects found a work-around in Japanese building code to create this house on Hokkaido's southwest coast, which features a larger than average roof to protect a pair of patios from snowfall. More about Jun Igarashi Architects uses loophole in Japanese planning to equip Hokkaido house for snowy winters
Still in the festive mood? Our latest Pinterest board features architecture from snowy regions around the world, including a mirror-clad shelter for Canadian ice skaters and a glass holiday home in Slovenia. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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A young carpenter who wished to build his own residence was the client for this modest project by Atelier l'Abri, located in Quebec's Eastern Townships. More about Atelier l'Abri designs Canadian cabin for carpenter to build himself
This tiny black cabin by US firm Studio Padron serves as a cosy library and guest house for a vacation home in upstate New York (+ slideshow). More about Studio Padron creates secluded library in the woods of New York state
Colorado architects Studio B have extended a local waterfront home by adding a pair of buildings with different levels of privacy (+ slideshow). More about Studio B adds two separate volumes to Riverside House in Colorado
Colorado architecture firm Arch11 has raised a single-family residence on a concrete plinth to provide unobstructed views of the Rocky Mountains (+ slideshow). More about Arch 11 completes Rocky Mountain home atop a concrete plinth