DB Arquitetos stacks house with wooden screens on Brazilian coast
Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo, Brazil. More
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Barde vanVoltt gives historic Haarlem house a contemporary update
Interiors studio Barde vanVoltt has renovated this early 1900s house in the Dutch city of Haarlem to forge a strong connection between the building's past and present, grounding the space with warm woods and tactile textures. More
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Saunders Architecture creates steel-clad house for Carraig Ridge in Alberta
Norway-based Saunders Architecture has created a Y-shaped house clad in Corten steel with floor-to-ceiling glazing in a design-focused neighbourhood near Calgary, Alberta. More
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Tactile materials "accentuate the value of shadows" in Bolívar House
Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. More
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Wood Marsh creates rammed-earth Peninsula House on Australian coast
Architecture studio Wood Marsh has used curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth to create this home south of Melbourne, which is designed to echo Australia's "windswept" coastline. More
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Edition Office tops New South Wales home with "bird’s mouth" cutout roof
Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. More
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Dezeen's top five houses of January 2024
Dezeen's top five houses of the month for January include an "unyielding" travertine-clad holiday home on the Danish coast and a fluted concrete villa built into a Spanish hillside. More
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The Ranch Mine adds steel-clad lookout tower to Arizona house
US studio The Ranch Mine has completed a house in Arizona clad in wood and weathering steel that includes a tall volume that can "serve as a sentinel for potential forest fires". More
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PAT completes off-grid Kenyan holiday home with raised bedrooms
Open-air bedrooms and terraces are raised above the treetops at this holiday home designed by Italian architecture studio PAT on Kenya's Manda Island. More
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Lovers Unite revives interiors of mid-century Silver Lake home
California design studio Lovers Unite has reinvigorated a 1950s home with sweeping views of the Los Angeles hills, turning an unused balcony into an extension of the indoor social space. More
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Kendle Design clads Arizona "micro building" in weathering steel
US architecture studio Kendle Design Collaborative has designed an accessory building for a family home with a metal roof extension meant to frame an outdoor garden while "celebrating the Arizona sky". More
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D'Arcy Jones adds subterranean garage to century-old house in Vancouver
Canadian architecture studio D'Arcy Jones Architects has completed a project called John Street Redo, which involved renovating and enlarging an early 1900s home in a way that is "forward-looking without erasing an old building's original charm". More
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Rectilinear and sculptural forms converge at Bridgehampton Beach House
A curvy canopy with a rooftop reflecting pool is among the standout features at a Long Island house designed by US studios Steven Harris Architects and Rees Roberts & Partners to embrace its sand-dune setting. More
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Estudio Albar completes cork-clad Casa Eñe overlooking Spanish national park
Spanish practice Estudio Albar has used cork cladding to help this home near Madrid blend in with the scrub-like landscape of a neighbouring national park. More
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Moises Sánchez uses local construction methods for cubic Mexican house
Guadalajara-based architect Moises Sánchez has created a stucco-clad, cube-shaped holiday home shaded by a large tree in western Mexico. More
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Fletcher Crane Architects creates red-brick home overlooking River Thames
UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects has completed Lowater, a house in Buckinghamshire comprising a group of red-brick forms that draw on the area's traditional architecture. More
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Atelier ST completes Leipzig house disguised to look like two
German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. More
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CAZA employs passive cooling for concrete FR House in the Philippines
New York studio CAZA has completed a cast-concrete house in the Philippines, aiming to optimise passive cooling and natural ventilation. More
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Juan Alberto Andrade adds workspace onto multifamily housing in Ecuador
Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade has completed an extension to a multifamily housing complex with rammed earth walls in Guayaquil. More
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Moroccan riads inform London extension by Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing
Clay-plaster walls, exposed brickwork and tile floors aim to evoke a feeling of a traditional Moroccan home at this London house, overhauled by local studios Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing. More
