Dezeen's top five houses of the month for January include an "unyielding" travertine-clad holiday home on the Danish coast and a fluted concrete villa built into a Spanish hillside.
Also featured in this roundup is a house with clustered red-brick volumes overlooking the River Thames and a cube-shaped holiday home in Chile with an expansive rotated terrace.
This is the latest in our houses of the month series, where we select five of the most popular residences featured on Dezeen in the past month from all around the world.
Read on to find out more about Dezeen readers' favourite houses this month:

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Vollerup Atrium House, Denmark, by Jan Henrik Jansen Arkitekter and Studio Marshall Blecher
Architecture studios Jan Henrik Jansen Arkitekter and Studio Marshall Blecher designed this monolithic travertine home in Denmark to age gracefully within the landscape, organising the pavilion-like residential spaces around a central atrium with trees and a reflection pond. "The site is on an exposed and windswept stretch of Danish coastline and the monolithic atrium provides a solid and unyielding refuge from the elements," Marshall Blecher, founder of the eponymous studio, told Dezeen.
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The Garden Laneway House, Canada, by Williamson Williamson
This solid, brick-clad family home in Toronto's West End was designed by Williamson Williamson to amplify the size, functionality a...