From tiny mountain cabins to vast modernist-influenced beach villas, US editor Dan Howarth has selected the 10 best American houses of 2016, as we continue our year in review.

Case Inlet Retreat, Washington, by MW Works
US firm MW Works created this holiday home with ample glazing and natural materials, helping it blend with its picturesque surroundings.
Located in northern Washington, the Case Inlet Retreat is nestled into a forested hillside and is named after the body of water it overlooks.
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Ex of In House, New York, by Steven Holl
Three-dimensional shapes are cut out from areas of this artist residence in Upstate New York by Steven Holl Architects, which claims the house can sleep five guests despite having "zero bedrooms". The geometry of the 918-square-foot property comprises a series of spheres that intersect the main trapezoid volumes, forming a dramatic entrance hall and a large feature window on one corner of the upper floor.
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Casa Bahia, Florida, by Alejandro Landes
Colombian-Ecuadorian filmmaker Alejandro Landes completed his first built project: a tropical-modernist mansion on the shore of Miami's Biscayne Bay.
Landes, who briefly swapped movies for architecture, envisioned the house as a "framework for living" with seven bedrooms distributed across three storeys.
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