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Continuing the home's celebration of wood, an elongated inset shelving display also accentuates the length of the already long space 

Breakfast bar, dining table, al fresco setting – wherever you sit you will be sitting comfortably and stylishly in this renovated home

Sometimes the big picture is central to a kitchen's design – here, adroit planning resulted in a more roomy, functional heart-of-the-home kitchen

A fairly conservative street presence gives way to playful light- and space-giving architecture at the rear for this dynamic family home

The owners wanted an Italian vibe for this serene bathroom – including optimising view through a connecting courtyard complete with lemon tree

Designed by MVRDV, The Canyon – a 23-storey, mixed-use building overlooking San Francisco Bay – evokes California’s dramatic geology 

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) wins international design competition to build the new harbourside cultural district in Sanya, in Hainan, China

If you can't get to Bali, bring Bali back home to you – for this garden, a Balinese water sculpture appeals to more than one of the senses

This bathroom has a lot going on in terms of ideas and aesthetics – one feature is its way of delineating space without sacrificing a sense of space

A benchtop provides a feature, a work surface, and sometimes a balancing act – here, a workbench picks up on light and dark cabinetry tones

This sunken court complete with a sculptural olive tree acts as a light well – optimising daylight and, with sliders drawn back, ventilation

Chunky or slender benchtops? We think they're both great depending on setting – slender certainly looks the part in this scenic kitchen