Dezeen Names Its Five Most-Read Houses of September 2026

A monolithic grey-brick riverside house in Northern Ireland and a four-metre-wide home in Kyoto top Dezeen's roundup of the five most popular houses published on the site in September 2026.

The monthly list, drawn from reader engagement, also features a lime-rendered family house in Mexico, a cross-laminated timber holiday home in Sweden and a residence in the Indian state of Kerala built around two large mango trees.

House and Studio in Kyoto, Japan, by Tato Architects

Local studio Tato Architects squeezed a skinny house and ceramics studio onto a narrow Kyoto plot measuring four by 30 metres. Two skylit voids illuminate the interiors.

Inside, zigzagging staircases and walkways connect the home's separate eastern and western wings, both of which sit elevated above an expansive ground-floor studio. The project was published on Dezeen on 4 September 2026.

Tollymore, UK, by McGonigle McGrath

Belfast studio McGonigle McGrath set six staggered rectangular volumes into a steep bank to form this riverside house in Northern Ireland, featured on 5 September 2026.

Grey brick walls rest atop a stepped plinth of board-marked concrete, while large windows and glass doors frame the surrounding nature.

Casa Amona, Mexico, by Colar

Perched beside a wooded hill in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Casa Amona is a two-storey home and studio wrapped in white lime-rendered walls.

Local architecture studio Colar designed the house for a multi-generational family. Its stacked layout arranges rooms as independent units, and an enclosed ground-floor living space can convert into a bedroom without any architectural intervention.

Pine House, Sweden, by Johan Sundberg Arkitektur

Pine House stretches across a forested site in southern Sweden as a low-lying cross-laminated timber structure arranged in a cross-shaped plan.

Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur clad the three-bedroom holiday home in pine panelling, left exposed and untreated so that it weathers over time.

House Beyond the Mango Trees, India, by InLe Architects

Indian practice InLe Architects shaded the interiors of this Kerala home with timber shutters and the cooling canopy of two large mango trees.

The entrance sits between the trees and leads to an elongated dining room conceived as the heart of the home, alongside an adjacent outdoor patio.

Taken together, the five projects trace a clear throughline in current residential design: narrow urban infill, adaptable multi-generational layouts, untreated natural materials and passive cooling strategies — approaches likely to keep shaping the houses Dezeen's readers click on in the months ahead.