Top 10 articles for May: From the world's weirdest buildings to designing for an Australian lifestyle in Canada

With May behind us, let’s take a look at the top 10 stories covered throughout the month. Click on the title to read the full story, and let us know which ones were your favourites – or what else we should have covered.

1. Weird architecture: World's top 10 most unique buildings

Let's take a look at some of the world's "weirdest" architecture.

2. Sustainable “hovering cube” architecture defies gravity

North Avoca Studio sits cantilevered on a hill, seeming to float above lush greenery and ocean views.

3. Design competition to reimagine the typical Australian house

Six design teams from Woods Bagot’s Melbourne studio are competing in an internal ideas and design competition to reimagine the “cookie cutter” homes of housing estates.

4. Energy-efficient Blue Mountains home with Sydney Harbour views

Perched on the eastern spur of Linden in the lower Blue Mountains, sat a project home partially completed in 2003. The new owners, a young couple, decided after suffering through several cold winters that it was time to renovate the house into a thermally comfortable family home.

5. Bulleen House challenges the traditional suburban home

This untraditional house in Melbourne features a narrow design, passive solar techniques and lush garden views.

6. G'day House: Designing for an Australian lifestyle in Canada

Designed for an Australian expatriate family, G'day House explores Australian design elements in a Canadian context.

7. From drug den to sustainable, light-filled family home

A Stanmore terrace house was transformed from a run-down drug den to a contemporary, light-filled and sustainable family home.

8. Unique modular design system creates mid-century modern-inspired home

A couple has created a Kaufmann House-inspired design using a map-based modular design system by mishack.

9. Californian bungalow gets a contemporary light-filled extension

A Californian bungalow in Melbourne has received a contemporary renovation and light-filled extension.

10. Rural architecture “connects with the earth and heavens”

Tucks Ridge House is a modern rural dwelling of modest scope and elegant simplicity, with a profound relationship to the landscape.