Dezeen’s top five houses of month year
Glass blocks and rammed earth were among the unconventional materials used to create the most popular houses featured…
Faulkner designs California house around fire and water
US studio Faulkner Architects has clad a low-profile mountain house in corrugated Corten steel for wildfire resilience in…
Hollaway Studio completes Westview Cottage in Dungeness
A monochrome palette of wood and metal marks out this low-lying house in Britain’s only desert, designed by…
terracotta and burgundy accents revive narrow valencia home
piano piano turns a narrow corridor into an inhabitable spine El desfile de la Puri is a…
Will Gamble frames Ribbon House extension with weathered steel
Weathered steel shaped like a “pressed ribbon” frames the rear extension of this Victorian townhouse in London, renovated…
Bruzkus Greenberg adds multifunctional “blue box” to apartment
Local practice Bruzkus Greenberg has redesigned a penthouse apartment in Berlin, adding a blue-stained wooden core that contains…
Studio Bucky cloaks Cucu cabin in Ireland with red shingles
New York practice Studio Bucky has nestled an off-grid cabin among trees in rural Westmeath, Ireland, shrouding its…
Rammed-earth walls enclose A House Born of Four Soils in India
Sand sourced from four different regions creates a “geological canvas” of coloured and textured strata in the rammed-earth…
Sukchulmok and BRBB Architects self-design studio in Seoul
South Korean studios Sukchulmok and BRBB Architects have transformed a 1970s brick building in Seoul into their own…
Nicolas Laisné creates ship-like Vatea apartment block in France
Local studio Nicolas Laisné Architectes has completed Vatea, a riverside apartment block in France with a sleek, skinny…
Barde vanVoltt designs Mexico penthouse as “brutalist sanctuary”
Dutch design studio Barde vanVoltt has used textured stucco walls, stainless steel panels and sculptural stone elements to…
Ian Moore transforms Sydney pub into The Corner House
Australian studio Ian Moore Architects has transformed a 19th-century pub in Sydney into The Corner House, a home…