Skinspace by AND
Slideshow: a wall of wooden scales folds through the glazed facade of this house and studio that Korean architects AND designed for an artist in South Korea. More
Slideshow: a wall of wooden scales folds through the glazed facade of this house and studio that Korean architects AND designed for an artist in South Korea. More
Slideshow: there are no horizontal crossbeams to interrupt the vertically striped wooden batons that clad this house outside Munich by German architects Titus Bernhard. More
Steel crossbeams divide the triple-height living room of this Tokyo townhouse into modular sections. More
Slideshow: the cantilevered upper storeys of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shogo Iwata hover above a driveway. More
Slideshow: Japanese firm Schemata Architecture Office have perched a cabin on top of a small woodland cliff in Chiba, Japan. More
Slovenian studio Arhitektura d.o.o. have completed a gabled house with a crisp white silhouette just outside the medieval town of Škofja Loka. More
Glazed walls slide back to connect the L-shaped living room to a corner courtyard in this Sydney house renovated by local firm Tribe Studio. More
Slideshow: a wooden library climbs the walls of this four-storey house in Kanagawa, Japan. More
The top floor of this periscope-like wooden house in Stavanger, Norway, cantilevers northwards towards the sea. More
Extra large windows frame the interiors of this shingle-clad cabin in Victoria, Australia. More
This wood and steel house by Melbourne studio Architects EAT has a huge projecting roof that shelters a first floor barbeque deck. More
Slideshow: chunky chimneys bring natural light and ventilation inside the three adjoining blocks that comprise this dark grey house in Kildare, Ireland. More
The curved wings of this house in Kuwait converge around an outdoor swimming pool (photos by Nelson Garrido). More
Slideshow: the walls of this house in Tokyo by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates stretch outwards around a secret balcony. More
Slideshow: Swedish architects Waldemarson Berglund were inspired by the slopes of a nearby ski resort to create these three slanted timber cabins in north Sweden. More
Architects Sharon Neuman and Oded Stern-Meiraz have concealed a modern rectangular residence near Tel Aviv behind a brick wall shaped like a vernacular house with a chimney. More
Slideshow: the faceted copper envelope of this house extension near Sydney was designed by architects Innovarchi to resemble a roof. More
Slideshow: this glass pavilion on the edge of a lake in Ontario, Canada, houses a studio, apartment and boathouse for a photographer and was designed by Toronto Studio GH3. More
An electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. More
Slideshow: the glazed walls of this pavilion-like house in southern Germany are sandwiched between a roof and plinth that mirror one another (photographs by Zooey Braun). More