Following the popularity of a riverside house that an architect and designer built for themselves in Australia, we've rounded up 10 other original self-designed homes by architects and designers from around the world.

Home Farm, UK, by John Pawson
Home Farm is the clutter-free second home of John Pawson, the British designer best known for his minimalist style.
Built within a 17th-century farming complex in the Cotswolds, the dwelling is fitted out with limited furniture and a deliberately simple material palette of pale lime plaster, elm and concrete.
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House in Samambaia, Brazil, by Rodrigo Simao Arquitetura
A large, sweeping rooftop shelters the stripped-back House in Samambaia that Brazilian architect Rodrigo Simão designed for himself, his wife and children. Floor-to-ceiling windows wrap its exterior and frame its tactile, open-plan interiors, which feature various recycled elements and an exposed structure of white-painted steel pipes, beams and board-marked concrete.
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House in Tokiwa, Japan, by Makoto Suzuki
Makoto Suzuki designed the fragmented House in Tokiwa to facilitate communal living ? accommodating living spaces for himself, an office for his wife, a remote retreat for his father and a studio for the sculptor Takenobu Igarashi.
It is made up of individual blocks that are interlinked and unified by the same vertical timber cladding, which Suzuki left unpainted to mimic the trunks of ...