House in Muko by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Huge vertical louvres give a pleated appearance to this family house in Kyoto by FujiwaraMuro Architects (+ slideshow). More
Huge vertical louvres give a pleated appearance to this family house in Kyoto by FujiwaraMuro Architects (+ slideshow). More
A secluded courtyard is concealed behind the stark concrete facade of this house in Nuevo León, Mexico, by Monterrey studio Stación-ARquitectura (+ slideshow). More
This house for toy-bear collectors in Thailand was conceived as a scaled-up version of the bears' display cabinet (+ slideshow). More
A bedroom and bathroom are hidden inside a white box in this converted warehouse by Japanese architects Airhouse Design Office (+ slideshow). More
Chunks missing from the sloping roof of this house in Kagawa by Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa reveal an open-air courtyard at the centre (+ slideshow). More
Rough walls of locally sourced rubble surround this house on the south coast of Ireland by Dublin studio Aughey O'Flaherty Architects (+ slideshow). More
Canadian architect Henri Cleinge built a house for himself in Montreal with concrete walls inside and out. More
Sliding back the glazed facade allows the upper storey to hang over the open living space of this house in Brittany by French firm Lode Architecture (+ slideshow). More
London studio Mikhail Riches has renovated a nineteenth-century house in London and added a glazed kitchen and dining room at the rear (+ slideshow). More
This narrow house on a high street in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates features a glazed ground-floor gallery (+ slideshow). More
Glass panels slide into the walls to create an outdoor living room at this lakeside house outside São Paulo by Brazilian architects Studio Arthur Casas (+ slideshow). More
This house for a surgeon in Chiba, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates contains courtyards with elevated wooden walkways and glass walls behind its thick concrete exterior (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2013: Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune will present a kit-of-parts for a prefabricated Scandinavian house in Milan this April (+ slideshow). More
This angular rural house in Greece by Athens studio Tense Architecture Network has over half of its concrete body buried beneath the ground (+ slideshow + photographs by Filippo Poli). More
Australian firm Charles Wright Architects used a mixture of precast and in-situ concrete to construct a house that can withstand the most powerful cyclones in northern Queensland (+ slideshow). More
This family house in South Korea by Office 53427 has a curving white facade with extruded windows and square perforations. More
More from architect Hironaka Ogawa: the two trees felled to make way for this house extension in Kagawa, Japan, were reinstalled inside the living room (+ slideshow). More
Spanish architects DAHL&GHG designed this house in northern Madrid so that every room faces the garden (+ slideshow). More
Residents taking a bath or using the toilet are on show to swimmers in the pool at this brick and concrete house in Chiang Mai, Thailand (+ slideshow). More
This house in Belgium by Ghent studio Graux & Baeyens Architecten is broken down into cubic volumes that are staggered to let more light into each room (+ slideshow). More