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This house overlooking the sea in southern Spain by MVN Architects comprises white rectilinear volumes on a base of travertine marble (+ slideshow). More
This house overlooking the sea in southern Spain by MVN Architects comprises white rectilinear volumes on a base of travertine marble (+ slideshow). More
Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). More
Gravel coats the exterior of this house in Japan by Keitaro Muto Architects, including a wedge-shaped block with outward sloping walls. More
Tokyo studio International Royal Architecture designed this seaside house with the "form of a pure white arrow". More
Spain and Kuwait-based AGi Architects have designed three seafront houses in Kuwait for three siblings and their families (photos by Nelson Garrido). More
London architects Liddicoat & Goldhill added an extension to a south London home with an oak-screened staircase and double-height windows. More
This holiday home by Swiss architects Hurst Song Architekten is partly embedded in the steep slopes of the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More
Budding novelists will lust after this writer's hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow). More
A tall and narrow entrance slopes down to a low and wide living space at this triangular house in Japan by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. More
Rather than erasing all trace of this Kyoto townhouse's previous owners, Japanese architects Q-Architecture Laboratory preserved the earlier haphazard extensions as a timeline of the building's history. More
Austrian architects Atelier Thomas Pucher built a glass box and courtyard onto this house in Graz to bring the family's living space outdoors (+ slideshow). More
Steps built into the kitchen counter lead up to a suspended staircase in this Melbourne house by Australian architects Edwards Moore. More
Almost everything that goes on inside this house in Valencia by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is on show to visitors though a transparent glass facade (+ slideshow). More
There's a special staircase for dogs at this renovated house in Ho Chi Minh City by architecture studio 07Beach. More
Tornados would pose no threat to this conceptual house by architects 10 Design, which can tuck itself beneath the ground just like a turtle retracts its vulnerable head away from danger (+ movie). More
A dormer window provides a first-floor observatory at this gabled lodge in the Czech Republic by A1 Architects of Prague. More
A staircase is extruded from the wooden shelves of a bookcase at this renovated house in Tuscany by Italian architects Sundaymorning and Massimo Fiorido Associati. More
There are huge rectangular holes in the walls and floors of this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects. More
A chunky bay window protrudes from this timber-clad addition to a house in Ontario by Canadian studio The Practice of Everyday Design (+ slideshow). More
This gabled house in Italy by Austrian architects Casati has stripy wooden walls on the outside and bumpy limestone walls on the inside (+ slideshow). More