Waechter Architecture updates century-old Portland house with a bright red facade
A small late-Victorian dwelling in Portland, Oregon, has been transformed into a modern home with a monochrome red steel and wood exterior (+ slideshow). More
A small late-Victorian dwelling in Portland, Oregon, has been transformed into a modern home with a monochrome red steel and wood exterior (+ slideshow). More
Images of British architect David Chipperfield's first residential tower in Manhattan have been released to entice buyers into purchasing luxury units starting at $2 million (£1.3 million). More
Graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture have designed and built a contemporary family home in a low-income neighbourhood in New Haven, Connecticut (+ slideshow). More
This London townhouse by Jamie Fobert Architects features handmade bricks, bronze panelling and Georgian-inspired window shutters. More
FMD Architects used slender lengths of timber to "stitch" together this narrow Melbourne house and its new garden extension. More
ODA New York's residential tower for Manhattan features open-air terraces between the floors, designed to fulfil "the dream of a suburban backyard" (+ slideshow). More
The roof of this house in Japan is tilted above a band of glazing, allowing light to permeate the interior while also making the structure look like a box with a lifted lid (+ slideshow). More
Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects has squeezed a contemporary shophouse into a four-metre-wide site in Ho Chi Minh City, with a facade that opens and closes like a giant shutter. More
We've published thousands of beautiful houses since Dezeen was founded. To mark our ninth birthday today, we're revisiting the nine that have been most popular with our readers (+ slideshow). More
PLP Architecture has revealed plans to build a high-rise housing block in London's Stratford, containing homes modelled on student accommodation. More
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a curving white concrete apartment block for New York's West Village, the latest in its ongoing collaboration with developer Ian Schrager. More
World Architecture Festival 2015: architecture firm Spark has unveiled its concept for "the next generation of retirement housing" – a community of homes and health facilities combined with a vertical urban farm (+ slideshow). More
Two giant lifts are concealed in the base of this garage in Switzerland, providing access to a secret underground space where a member of a royal family stores vintage cars and motorcycles (+ slideshow). More
Described by architecture studio De Rosee Sa as a "magical lakeside cabin", this small black hut in Belgium shares many characteristics with the witch's houses found in fairytales (+ movie). More
Aamodt Plumb Architects divided this prefabricated house in Texas into two wings to avoid felling a group of trees, covering one half in black-charred timber and the other in bright white stucco. More
Hood-like roofs funnel natural light into these brick terraced houses in London by Bell Phillips Architects, which provide cost-effective homes for elderly and disabled residents (+ slideshow). More
Berlin studio Baumhauer has renovated a traditional farmhouse in the Swiss hamlet of Florins, inserting a timber structure that contains new living areas in place of an existing barn (+ slideshow). More
A glass study projects from the roof of this concrete house near Brussels, but it presents an austere windowless facade to the street (+ slideshow). More
Six vaulted skylights form the roof of this west London house by architecture studio vPPR, which also features two sunken courtyards (+ slideshow). More
Behind a simple concrete exterior, this house by Japanese architect Tsubasa Iwahashi contains a complex arrangement of rooms connected by three different kinds of staircase (+ slideshow). More