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No prizes for guessing where the Stairway House gets its name. This unusual project is located in Japan and serves as home to three generations of the same family, with the oversized staircase meant to help connect them.

Minimaliste has previously impressed us with its line of models that can withstand its country's harshest weather, and now the firm has completed its first home designed for family life. The Charme serves as full-time home to a family of four.

Build Tiny recently completed a new home that gets its name from combining the names of the owner's two grandmothers. Family is a strong theme with the Daisy Vera Tiny House and the off-grid model also integrates an heirloom stained glass window.

It’s rare to see a firm as high-profile as Foster + Partners design a private home, but if the Dolunay Villa is any indication, this is a pity. It features an undulating timber roof and expansive glazing frames the view for those inside.

Optinid has completed another of its tiny houses that sports a sunroof-style sliding roof. The Tiny d'Alexane serves as a vacation home and has no kitchen, but has a relatively spacious living room and a separate toilet and bathroom.

Plant Prefab has recently revealed its latest tiny house that is jam-packed with smart technology. Dubbed LivingHome 10, the 496-sq-ft dwelling is designed as an Accessory Dwelling Unit and features a smart voice command system.

You could be forgiven for assuming that the Casa Ojalá tiny house concept we covered last year was too ambitious to be realized, but a prototype is indeed being built and readied for production. Pre-orders are now open for the flexible tiny house.

Despite France's reputation for culinary excellence, many of the French tiny houses we cover have very basic kitchens. Though lacking compared to its North American counterparts, the kitchen in Baluchon's Téméraire tiny house is an improvement.

Studio Okami has recently completed a green roof home that, from a certain angle, vanishes into its natural landscape setting. Dubbed Sloped Villa, the three-bedroom family home is built into the sloping hillside of Mont-de-l'Enclus in Belgium.

A challenge with tiny houses is that there's often nowhere for guests to stay and the situation is even trickier in France, where they're usually smaller than in the US. The Mogote sleeps two in its bedroom but makes room for guests with a sofa bed.

Here's an idea for a beach house with a difference, courtesy of Brooklyn-based Studio Vural. Dune House would be built into the beach rather than on it like you might expect, and would run off-the-grid with solar panels and wind turbines.

C.F. Møller Architects has designed what it calls Sweden's tallest wooden building. The residential project is topped by a green roof and has been specifically designed so that it can be dismantled and recycled if required.