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This house in Malavli, India, features walls made from local Kotah stone and a glazed, subterranean courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Shunichiro Ninomiy used an atrium and small pool of water to admit light indirectly to the ground floor of this east-facing home in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house by architects Destilat appears to climb down a hill at the foot of the Pöstlingberg mountain in Austria. (more…) View the full article

Courtyards punch through the walls and roof of this bungalow that Japanese studio Kazuya Saito Architects designed for an elderly couple in Sendai (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A+Awards: next up in our collaboration with Architizer is this energy-efficient wooden home on the outskirts of a small village in the Czech Republic, which was one of the private houses recognised in this year's A+Awards (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: one huge window stretches across the black facade of this house overlooking the bay in Osaka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pointed doorways and openings throughout this house in Kyoto, Japan, were designed by Alts Design Office to mimic the building's gabled profile (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Local practice MNB Design Studio has refurbished an apartment in Hong Kong, adding a house-shaped wooden frame to section off the dining area. Read more View the full article

Japanese practice Hibinosekkei has completed a nursery in Yokohama, which features plywood-lined interiors and house-shaped openings set into its dark facades. Read more View the full article

Danish boatbuilder Laust Nørgaard has completed a floating home for his family in Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: Berlin videographers False Manners Productions mixed fluids including milk, food colouring and make-up remover to create the cosmic patterns accompanying this track by producer Quenum. (more...) View the full article

Books, records, plant pots and even shoes can be turned into musical instruments thanks to British designer Nick Brennan’s Sound Pegs device (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Five holiday homes by architects Peter Zumthor (above), MVRDV, Nord Architecture (below), Hopkins Architects and Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects are nearing completion in England as part of the Living Architecture project initiated by writer Alain de Botton. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A courtyard lined in pale Omani stone and with a fountain and trees sits at the centre of a pair of houses in Kuwait City by Studio Toggle. Read more View the full article

London firm Tony Fretton has sandwiched two rows of brick houses between a pair of canals in the town of Den Helder in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A white desk folds up the wall and across the ceiling like a crumpled aeroplane wing in this apartment in Seoul by South Korean design firm AnLstudio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Coronavirus will lead to "value shift" in housing design according to architect Alison Brooks, who rejected the trend for micro-homes because "nobody wants less space". Read more View the full article

This apartment block with a pleated facade of golden aluminium by French studio [bP] Architectures faces the Place de la Bastille, Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The UK government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, has recommended urban orchards and incentivising developers by fast-tracking planning for attractive housing. Read more View the full article

Dutch architect Bastiaan Jongerius was commissioned by six families to design this group of houses around a communal courtyard in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London studio Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a housing complex for the western outskirts of Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Perforated metal balconies fold like ribbons around the facade of an apartment block in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Balconies of these two apartment blocks in northwest France by architect Philippe Gazeau protrude like a set of open drawers. (more…) View the full article

Chunky concrete boxes form a grid of secluded balconies across the facade of this apartment block in Kyoto by Japanese studio VIDZ Architects. (more…) View the full article

Architects Colboc Franzen & Associés have masked the facade and balconies of three apartment blocks in the south of France behind curved galvanised-steel grids. (more…) View the full article