Dezeen archive: holiday homes
Dezeen archive: for those wishing to escape a wet summer, here's a round-up of all the holiday houses featured on Dezeen to help you imagine the perfect retreat. See all the stories »
Dezeen archive: for those wishing to escape a wet summer, here's a round-up of all the holiday houses featured on Dezeen to help you imagine the perfect retreat. See all the stories »
This 4.5 metre-wide house in Los Angeles by Anonymous Architects was inspired by the narrow residences found in Japanese cities. More
Dezeen Wire: work starts today on an affordable housing development in Harlem by architects Adjaye Associates More
The stark concrete exterior of many of London's postwar housing blocks could be made more attractive with thatching, proposes architecture student James Kirk (+ movie). More
Architect Frank Gehry has completed his first building for Make It Right, the charity founded by Brad Pitt to rehouse families made homeless in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. More
Glass-fronted apartments are set behind sheltered balconies at this concrete residential block in Mexico City by architects JSa (+ slideshow). More
As the tides erode the northern coast of New Zealand, this house on a sled by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan can be towed off the beach and out of harm's way (+ slideshow). More
Balconies of these two apartment blocks in northwest France by architect Philippe Gazeau protrude like a set of open drawers. More
Dezeen Wire: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a competition to design "micro-units" to help solve the shortage of of small apartments in Manhattan. More
Indoor and outdoor staircases lead from a roof terrace to a sunken courtyard at this house in Portugal by Lisbon studio [i]da Arquitectos. More
This concrete house in Portugal by architect Paula Santos features an indoor swimming pool and a painter's studio (+ slideshow). More
A dozen layers of concrete planters create a vertical garden on the facade of this house in Ho Chi Minh City by Vietnamese architects Vo Trong Nghia. More
Apartments in this raw concrete block in Tokyo by architects Key Operation feature indoor balconies that look over both the street and internal stairwells, so neighbours can see who's coming and going (+ slideshow). More
An enormous frame surrounds a little window in the reconstructed stone wall that flanks this holiday home in northern Italy by architects bergmeisterwolf (+ slideshow). More
Wooden shutters fold, tilt and slide open to let in the sun and keep out the burglars at this weekend cabin in New Zealand by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan (+ slideshow). More
Architect John Lin has adapted the traditional style of a rural Chinese courtyard residence to create a village house that is entirely self-sufficient (+ slideshow). More
These London townhouses by architects Piercy & Company have chunky banisters formed from thickly layered birch plywood. More
Wooden stairs climb up through a narrow lightwell inside this house by Japanese studio Tato Architects. More
Belgian studio EXAR Architecture have replaced walls of brick and plaster with glass and Corten steel on this extension to a suburban house outside Brussels. More
The timber-framed rooms of this house in Osaka prefacture by Japanese architects Suga Atelier are on show to the street though a transparent facade. More