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A roof terrace can be glimpsed between the metallic grey timber beams that surround a two-storey house near Riga, Latvia. More
A roof terrace can be glimpsed between the metallic grey timber beams that surround a two-storey house near Riga, Latvia. More
A private balcony is concealed behind the black galvanised steel exterior of this house in Yao, Japan, by architect Yosuke Ichii. More
Following our story about Shigeru Ban's apartments secured by rolling metal shutters, here's a concrete house near Stuttgart that can be sealed with sliding screens. More
Portuguese architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro has converted the former house of a poet into a writer's retreat (photos: Do Mal o Menos). More
A Picasso painting inspired this cliff-top house near Sydney by architects Durbach Block Jaggers. More
This dreamy holiday bunker designed by Portuguese studio Phyd Arquitectura is sunk into the landscape, overlooking the hills near Torres Novas. More
An oversailing glass roof and steel mesh curtain protect a two-storey extension and terrace at a historic Sydney house. More
Australian architects Jolson have completed a house in Melbourne where cantilevering concrete slabs appear to balance on top of a bronze garden wall. More
Dutch architect Dick van Gameren has converted a family house outside Hilversum by punching three faceted skylights through the roof and driving a corridor through the middle. More
This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. More
This corner house by Sophie Valla Architects and Marc Koehler Architects is the latest of 670 architect-designed homes to be completed at a new development masterplanned by architects MVRDV in Leiden, the Netherlands. More
Four courtyards are cut into the asymmetrical white roof of this Portuguese house by ARX Portugal Arquitectos and Portuguese architect Stefano Riva. More
You can walk up one curved staircase and down another in this family home in Kitakami by Japanese architect Yukiko Nadamoto. More
Japanese firm Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a concrete house in Fukuoka that resembles a half-submerged submarine. More
This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain. More
Tel Aviv architect Ron Fleisher has designed a house in an Israeli-Arab village that combines traditional Palestinian and Islamic architecture with modernism. More
Japanese architects Akinari Tanaka, POI, Nawakenjimu and Lapin have completed this diamond-shaped house in Kokura, Japan, with a ledge in one corner for climbing up to the roof terrace. More
Behind a glass facade, a basket weave of timber encases the living and dining areas of this house in Nara, Japan by Japanese studio Tadashi Yoshimura Architects. More
This Tokyo house by Japanese architects Key Operation has been designed around the movements of the client's pet cat, writes Yuki Sumner. More
Japanese architects Atelier Tekuto have created a house in Hayama, Japan, by wrapping two 100 year-old wooden warehouses in a new faceted skin. More