The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a home in Portugal designed by architecture practice Pema Studio. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features a "magnificent" fortress home in Portugal
Architecture practice Pema Studio drew on the idea of a protected fortress when creating the Forte House, a blocky, white-rendered home that replaces a neglected existing structure in Santo Tirso, Portugal. More about Pema Studio designs home in Portugal as "a dense and closed fortress"
Weathering-steel accents break up the massing of the all-white Badlands Home that BLDG Workshop designed in a rural area outside of Toronto. More about BLDG Workshop places Corten steel details on all-white home in rural Ontario
Los Angeles studio Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects has completed a sleek stucco home in Venice Beach, California. More about EYRC tucks light-filled house behind white walls in Venice Beach
Living spaces are organised around a decades-old olive tree in this Santa Monica home, completed by Los Angeles studio Woods +Dangaran. More about Woods + Dangaran organises Twentieth house around olive tree
Three gabled volumes come together to form this "village-like" coastal residence in Chile called Casa El Pangue by local architecture studio Combeau Arquitectura and Andrea Murtagh. More about Combeau Arquitectura clusters gabled forms for Chilean ocean getaway
Tetro Arquitetura has lifted an angular, lily-shaped home on stilts in a lush Brazilian forest in a way that prevented the unnecessary removal of surrounding trees. More about Tetro Arquitetura uses black stilts to lift angular house in Brazilian forest
Local studio Cotaparedes Arquitectos has completed a minimalist home in Mexico, placing the kitchen, living and dining room below grade to allow the space to open onto a tranquil courtyard. More about Cotaparedes creates lofty living space in Guadalajara home
Muted tones and a courtyard pool feature in this home by Mexican firm Rea Architectural Studio, who envisioned the project as a flexible space for the future inhabitants. More about Rea Studio references "blank canvas" for Mexican beach house
Baldio Arquitectura has completed a small apartment with light wells and a central tree as part of a residential complex in Córdoba. More about Baldio Arquitectura designs Córdoba row house around existing carob tree
Argentinian architectural office Colle-Croce has designed this white home on a compact lot in Buenos Aires to make the most of the available outdoor space. More about Colle-Croce completes all-white steel home in Buenos Aires
A faceted roof on slender columns tops this home by Gluck+ in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills neighbourhood, covering the residence "like a parasol". More about Gluck+ covers Hollywood Hills home with an angular roof
Canadian architect Todd Saunders has shaped this white house next to Lake Rousseau to create a continuous route through its interior and exterior spaces. More about Saunders Architecture designs "ribbon-like" Lily Pad house in Ontario
The latest edition of Dezeen Debate, the new name for our Dezeen Weekly newsletter, features a minimalist white house in Mexico. More about A minimalist white house in Mexico features in today's Dezeen Debate newsletter
LA studio Pentagon has completed a ground-up residential project in the city's Venice neighbourhood, using rounded walls to create a sculptural composition and enhance the home's natural light. More about Curved plaster walls feature in bright Los Angeles home by Pentagon
This minimalist white house in Mexico was designed by Cotaparedes Arquitectos as "introspective architecture" focused on a pair of courtyards. More about Cotaparedes Arquitectos completes Mexican home built around two courtyards
Architect Javier Sanjurjo and architectural design studio Ameneiros Rey have completed an L-shaped house in Vilalba, Spain, featuring living spaces elevated above the ground on pillars to optimise views of the surrounding nature. More about Hórreo House is raised on stilts to look out over a nearby forest
Paritzki & Liani Architects has completed IS House, a family home near Tel Aviv featuring a triangular floor plan and a minimalist stone and glass facade. More about Paritzki & Liani Architects builds triangular house with white stone walls
A simple palette of white and grey brings an "atmosphere of calm" to this villa in the outskirts of Valladolid, Spain, designed by architecture studio Sara Acebes Anta. More about Sara Acebes Anta completes Spanish villa with pared-back colour palette
London-based Studio Seilern Architects has completed a villa on the Greek island of Paros, designed as a cluster of white cube-shaped forms that are oriented to follow the setting sun over the Aegean Sea. More about Studio Seilern Architects aligns white villa on Paros to follow the sun