Arigho Larmour Wheeler Architects completes "purposefully imperfect" woodland home in Dublin
This family home in Dublin features uneven blockwork walls and a terracotta-clad sloping roof, to help it match an Arts and Crafts-style neighbour. More
This family home in Dublin features uneven blockwork walls and a terracotta-clad sloping roof, to help it match an Arts and Crafts-style neighbour. More
The 1920s bungalows and 1950s modernist buildings found across Los Angeles influenced locally based Martin Fenlon Architecture when designing this house for one of the city's conservation areas. More
This residence in the Hamptons by architecture studio Deborah Berke Partners consists of multiple terraces and vast expanses of glass, and includes separate gyms for husband and wife. More
The owners of this Hawaiian home by Ljubljana firm Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti can clamber onto its faceted roof to enjoy a lofty view of the Pacific Ocean. More
David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England's West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. More
Dutch architect Chris Collaris has built a house in Amsterdam that is clad entirely in blackened timber, featuring an asymmetric gabled roof that extends out to form a sheltered entrance. More
This hillside house in Brisbane, designed by Japanese studio Tato Architects and Australian office Phorm Architecture, features outdoor living spaces raised up on stilts. More
Large windows provide framed views of Los Angeles from this hilltop house, which German art director Tino Schaedler has designed for his family. More
Variously sized openings scattered across the traditional stone and plaster facades of this house in the Swiss town of Ascona provide views of the garden and Lake Maggiore. More
A circular skylight in the tip of this pinecone-shaped treehouse by architect Claudio Beltrame in the Italian Alps allows the occupant to gaze up into the starry sky at night. More
Colorado architecture firm Studio B took cues from Denver's old bungalow homes to create this low-lying residence faced with handmade brick, walnut panelling and large panes of glass. More
Solid wooden beams rest on top of dry-stone walls to support a balcony that cantilevers to shelter a parking spot for a DeLorean at this house designed by Hyde + Hyde for a site on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales. More
A plaster made of sand and straw has been sprayed across the walls of this house, which was built in a village in Iran by local firm BAM Architects Office. More
Perched on the edge of a village by the Sea of Galilee in Israel, this house by Golany Architects features numerous balconies that can be shaded by rolling wooden screens. More
This prototype house overlooking Lake Maggiore was designed by Nicole Lachelle and Christian Niessen to demonstrate the capabilities of prefabricated wood construction, and features charred-timber facades enclosing a bright-white interior. More
This plant-covered extension to a bungalow in Miami is supported by a spiral concrete core that was precisely calibrated to match the sun's path at the height of summer. More
Simon Conder Associates has placed a prefabricated, black-stained timber extension on top of a former warehouse in east London, creating a new home for the designers whose studio occupies the old building. More
To build their own home in the Massachusetts town of Brookline, the principals of Spanish firm Ensamble Studio prefabricated individual parts of the structure in Madrid and sailed them across the Atlantic to be assembled on site. More
For a 1950s home in Los Angeles' elite Bel Air neighbourhood, architect Andrea Lenardin Madden has added an angular volume with floor-to-ceiling glass that extends over the landscape. More
Omar Gandhi Architect just completed its latest house, which sits on Nova Scotia's rugged coastline. We've therefore rounded up five of the Canadian firm's residential projects, all designed to maximise their dramatic settings and create cosy escapes from harsh weather. More