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Black shutters and concrete wall conceal Te Pakeke retreat in New Zealand
This holiday home in New Zealand by Fearon Hay Architects hides from neighbouring properties while having uninterrupted views of the mountainous landscape. More
This holiday home in New Zealand by Fearon Hay Architects hides from neighbouring properties while having uninterrupted views of the mountainous landscape. More
Architects have designed these five houses for themselves in New York State to escape city life, including a Catskills home with concrete-block walls and a retreat on Shelter Island. More
Canadian architecture firm Atelier Schwimmer has contrasted planks of charred wood with pale wood to form a cabin for brothers overlooking a lake in Canada. More
Mexican studio BAAQ has arranged the Casa Naila holiday home on the coast of Oaxaca into four blocks around a cross-shaped patio so that all rooms have views of the sea in more than one direction. More
Bruny Island Cabin is a wood-lined off-grid holiday home in Tasmania designed by architecture studio Maguire + Devin featuring only built-in furniture. More
House in Pyrgos is a fortress-style holiday home covered with earth-toned plaster built by Kapsimalis Architects on the Greek island of Santorini. More
Amsterdam studio Crafted Works has designed a timber cabin in the Netherlands, which has a structural frame that is exposed throughout its interior. More
Alberese stones and Carrara marble are some of the Italian materials architects Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini used for the interiors of this Tuscan holiday home. More
Czech studios Formafatal and Refuel Works took cues from buildings by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to design this concrete villa nestled into the jungle in Costa Rica. More
Brooklyn design-build studio Desciencelab has overhauled a gabled house in Montauk on the furthest tip of Long Island with greyed cladding and teak interiors. More
Czech architecture studio Formafatal has used blackened wood, perforated aluminium panels and a green roof to form this low-lying holiday home in Costa Rica. More
San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. More
Boxy timber volumes tuck away the beds and bathrooms of these minimal holiday apartments designed by Thisispaper Studio, which lie at the heart of the Polish capital. More
US studio MB Architecture has stacked shipping containers to construct this black holiday house in Amagansett, New York in a few days. More
Airy pavilion-like structures make up this holiday home in Sydney, which CM Studio has designed to optimise views of its luscious green surroundings. More
Stone and whitewashed walls surround a holiday home on the Greek island of Mykonos designed by K-studio, which has a tree poking through its shady wooden pergolas. More
Atelier Rua has arranged living spaces in this pared-back Portuguese holiday home around an enormous sitting room, which has three different vistas of its verdant surroundings. More
Argentinean architect Alejandro Sticotti has elevated a wood-clad box above the glazed kitchen and dining room of his family's holiday home on the coast of Uruguay. More
As self-isolation continues across the globe to help slow the spread of coronavirus, we've rounded up 10 remote cabins, treehouses and retreats that would be ideal to escape to. More
Cats' Pink House is a holiday home in Taiwan that includes cat ladders, a rotating carousel-shaped climbing frame and a fluffy pink swing for the owner's feline companions. More