Houses
Dezeen’s top five houses of July 2026
Charles Gillespie Architecture completes Somerset house with wildlife-friendly colonnade
Ænsemble adds “contemporary layers” to century-old country home near Berlin
CTA shelters annexe in Vietnam beneath curved roof to “evoke the sensation of being in a cave”
HYAN renovates 70s home in Japan around “single, continuous” living space
YN Studio extends London home around light-filled stairwell
Studio Font perches cliffside home in Mexico on inhabitable concrete columns
Roberts Gray Architects tops New Zealand sand dune with rammed-earth home
Formwork Architects transforms abandoned care home into light-filled Crouch End House
Estudio Futuro renovates compact Argentinian home around terracotta-paved patios
Seven self-build housing projects to inspire your own
SpaceDNA arranges split levels of Indian home around rust-orange staircase
Holzrausch evokes South American cinema at renovated Munich townhouse
Bricolage uses salvaged bricks for self-build home in London
Unfold Projects returns mid-century California residence to a “light-filled, organic oasis”
Čechvala Architects cloaks Bratislava home with corrugated raw aluminium
Andrea Ferro photographs Dakar’s under-threat bubble houses
Note Design Studio looks to traditional farmsteads for villa in southern Sweden
Tom Kneepkens “integrates living and nature” at Dutch forest villa
Will Gamble Architects adds “explicitly tropical” extension to Grade-II listed English cottage
Croxatto and Opazo Architects perches timber home overlooking Chilean coast
Loader Monteith rebuilds ruined Highlands house with blackened-larch extension
Sunken lightwells illuminate partially submerged London home by Stylus Architects
