James Brillon

Operable glass walls flank the living spaces of this Texas ranch, which was designed by Sanders Architecture to appear “like it rose up from the land.”

Mexican architecture firm RootStudio has completed a concrete hotel in Oaxaca that was constructed in stages as a “habitable sculpture”.

Garrison Architects has completed an animal shelter in Staten Island, which is wrapped in glass walls that provide even lighting conditions.

Metal siding, cantilevers and a rolling window supported by counterweights that slides into the floor characterise Caddy Shack in Austin by Olson Kundig.

An extension made of corrugated metal panels has been added to a Toronto house to create a new museum and residence for the Canadian artist Charles Pachter.

Weathering-steel accents break up the massing of the all-white Badlands Home that BLDG Workshop designed in a rural area outside of Toronto.

A low-slung, modernist home’s massing was shaped to surround an apple tree in this remote retreat by Montreal firm ACDF Architecture.

Diez + Muller Arquitectos has extended the corporate offices of an industrial company in Ecuador with a sinuous concrete extension.

A curved colonnade fronts this extension to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, creating an airy lobby for the gallery and completing the institution’s expansion.

Black-stained concrete forms the exterior of this modernist home that was completed in the mountains of Córdoba by Argentinian firm AR Arquitectos.