{"id":156691,"date":"2025-11-01T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156691\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:16:11","slug":"dezeens-top-five-houses-of-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156691\/","title":{"rendered":"Dezeen’s top five houses of October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three out of five of our houses of the month<\/a> for October meet the world with windowless facades, including an Austin accessory dwelling unit<\/a>\u00a0with no external fenestration at all.<\/p>\n

Also among the most popular residences published on Dezeen this month are two different takes on a woodland<\/a> hideaway \u2013 one built from steel and elevated on stilts, the other clad in wooden shingles.<\/p>\n

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

\"Woodend<\/a>Photo by Shannon McGrath<\/p>\n

Woodend, Australia, by David Hicks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This house is in Victoria<\/a>, but its design is heavily influenced by the architecture of French and Italian countryside villas.<\/p>\n

Its front facade has no windows or doors, with access to the richly finished interior granted only via a side gate.<\/p>\n

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

\"Windowless<\/a>Photo courtesy of Roberts Gray Architects<\/p>\n

SKI House, New Zealand, by Roberts Gray Architects<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Drawing on very different style cues but also devoid of street-facing windows is this house in W\u0101naka,\u00a0New Zealand<\/a>, by local studio Roberts Gray Architects.<\/p>\n

It was designed for the parents of one of the studio’s co-founders and features a stern facade to conceal a courtyard garden with panoramic mountain views.<\/p>\n

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

\"Chilean<\/a>Photo by Crist\u00f3bal Palma<\/p>\n

Casa en los Arboles, Chile, by Max N\u00fa\u00f1ez Arquitectos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Chilean studio\u00a0Max N\u00fa\u00f1ez Arquitectos<\/a> compares this house in the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern\u00a0Chile<\/a> to a lunar lander.<\/p>\n

Constructed from prefabricated steel, it was raised onto columns to ensure its footprint was small enough to avoid cutting down trees.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Casa en los Arboles \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ADU<\/a>Photo by Leonid Furmansky<\/p>\n

Stealth House, USA, by Specht Novak<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in Austin<\/a> has no exterior windows at all. Instead, it is arranged around two interior courtyards that bring light and a sense of space into the living spaces.<\/p>\n

“Eliminating perimeter windows was a deliberate move to redefine how a home interacts with its surroundings,” said Specht Novak principal Scott Specht, who is the homeowner as well as the architect.<\/p>\n

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

\"Waterhouse<\/a>Photo by Alex Lesage<\/p>\n

Waterhouse, Canada, by Oyama and Julia Mana\u00e7as Architecte<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Canadian studios Oyama and Julia Mana\u00e7as Architecte clad this house in a woodland clearing in Quebec<\/a> in wooden shingles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The house is separated into three volumes, nicknamed the Atelier, the Great Room and the Tower, intended to make the most of the site’s various views.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Waterhouse \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three out of five of our houses of the month for October meet the world with windowless facades,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,1789,19,17,5794,2823,10357,10358,26837],"class_list":{"0":"post-156691","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-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-houses","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","19":"tag-roundups","20":"tag-sectionall","21":"tag-sectionarchitecture","22":"tag-sectionhouses-of-the-month"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115473218699650479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}