{"id":262605,"date":"2026-02-01T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262605\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:07:10","slug":"dezeens-top-five-houses-of-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/262605\/","title":{"rendered":"Dezeen’s top five houses of January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homes spanning Mexico<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, and Japan<\/a> feature in this roundup<\/a> of the houses of the month<\/a> for January.<\/p>\n

Among this list of the five of the most popular residences featured on Dezeen this month is a family home with dramatically-curving roof and a tiny cabin modelled on a typical Australian shed.<\/p>\n

Read on to find out more about Dezeen readers’ favourite houses this month:<\/p>\n

\"ClayPhoto by French + Tye<\/p>\n

Clay Rise, UK, by Templeton Ford<\/a><\/p>\n

The founders of British studio Templeton Ford designed and built this residence<\/a> in West Sussex as a family home for themselves.<\/p>\n

Named Clay Rise, the home was designed by the duo to reinterpret Sussex’s archetypal houses, and is defined by red brick<\/a> and tile walls topped with a curvy three-tiered roof.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Clay Rise \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ThePhoto by Tim Clark<\/p>\n

The Oculus, Australia, by Hayley Pryor<\/a><\/p>\n

Architect Hayley Pryor drew on typical Australian sheds<\/a> for the design of The Oculus, a tiny moveable cabin in Byron Bay<\/a>, Australia.<\/p>\n

Created in collaboration with local builder Chris King, the 21-square-metre dwelling has a timber exterior, which is crowned with a corrugated metal roof and large central skylight.<\/p>\n

Find out more about The Oculus \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CasaPhoto by Hugo Tirso<\/p>\n

Casa Tao, Mexico, HW Studio<\/a><\/p>\n

A focus on creating shaded interiors informed this concrete house<\/a> on the Pacific coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, designed by locally-based HW Studio<\/a> to “withdraw discreetly” into its context.<\/p>\n

Inside, the home has a semi-elliptical wall that frames multiple levels of courtyards while also providing privacy from the street.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Casa Tao \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AmamiPhoto by Toshihisa Ishii<\/p>\n

Amami House, Japan, by Sakai Architects<\/a><\/p>\n

Local studio Sakai Architects used a large corrugated metal<\/a> roof with a triangular skylight<\/a> to shelter the timber-lined interiors of this off-grid home in Japan.<\/p>\n

Located on Amami \u014cshima, off Japan’s southern coast, Amami House encompasses 119 square metres and is organised across a square plan centred by a communal living, kitchen and dining space.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Amami \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"HeifortPhoto by Stijn Bollaert<\/p>\n

Heifort, Belgium, by Felt<\/a><\/p>\n

A copper-clad roof tops this barn-like home in Ghent<\/a> completed by Belgian architecture studio Felt.<\/p>\n

Designed for a retired couple with the goal of “ageing-in-place”, the home is arranged across one level for accessibility, with its living spaces divided by large portals made from cross-laminated timber.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Heifort \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homes spanning Mexico, Australia, and Japan feature in this roundup of the houses of the month for January.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,2273,111,139,69,5061,7478,1621,1774,44636],"class_list":{"0":"post-262605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-houses","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","19":"tag-roundups","20":"tag-sectionall","21":"tag-sectionarchitecture","22":"tag-sectionhouses-of-the-month"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}