Wooden house by Schlyter/Gezelius Arkitektkontor
Large folding doors open this woodland house outside Stockholm onto a decked terrace that is shaded by a folding fabric canopy. More
Large folding doors open this woodland house outside Stockholm onto a decked terrace that is shaded by a folding fabric canopy. More
Lisbon studio Orgânica Arquitectura have completed a two-storey residence behind the solid stone walls of an otherwise ruined house in Sintra, Portugal. More
Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here's an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. More
Long, narrow windows cut across the sides of a house in Okayama, Japan, to reveal the locations of internal walls and floors. More
A cedar-clad house near Seoul by Korean architects AND spirals up from beneath the ground. More
The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman's hat pulled low over his eyes. More
Rainwater slides down into the central folds of a plunging roof at this Dallas house, draining into a collection tank for reuse. More
A sequence of horizontal steel rods resemble a barcode on the glass facade of a house extension in Washington DC. More
The golden ratio determines proportions throughout this raw concrete house in Germany. More
The roof of this extended house in Melbourne sweeps outwards to create an exterior canopy and curves steeply upwards over a double-height dining room. More
Open-plan rooms of subtly different proportions are created by an off-centre courtyard in this square house in rural Japan. More
This roof of this sea-facing holiday house in Mandurah, south of Perth, jolts up and down to create four irregular gables. More
Dezeen archive: as we've been bombarded by beautiful Australian houses in recent weeks and our story from last week about a cliff-top house inspired by a Picasso painting (top left) continues to be popular with readers, we've grouped together all our stories about houses in Australia. See all the stories »
Cooling pools of water and trees line corridors and rooms inside an Indonesian house by architects Budi Pradono. More
These twin residences in Riga, Latvia, mirror one another exactly, except that one is clad in timber and the other in blackened steel. More
This jumbled house in India features an elevated steel tunnel, bridged corridors and a rooftop swimming pool on stilts. More
Two stark concrete houses in Lisbon feature secluded courtyards with overflowing ponds and swimming pools (photographs by Fernando Guerra). More
Indonesian architects Budi Pradono have designed a leaning house for Jakarta with a tree growing inside. More
Residents of this small Japanese house can warm their feet in a heated sunken hollow beneath the dining table. More
A drawbridge-like flap lowers from the steel-plated facade of this Melbourne bunker to reveal a bedroom window. More