This week's picks:

+ SPACESPACE's Long Tall House in Tokyo at What we do is secret, "a five-story basement home with three stories showing on the southwest side. The house is built between two streets, and the height difference between the streets is about 11.5 feet.".

+ Akihisa Hirata Architecture's ienoie house information center for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale at Judit Bellostes.

+ Makoto Yamaguchi Design's House in Komae via Trendir.

+ Plystudio's J-Loft interior design in Singapore at Dezeen, "The project involved removing all interior walls from the apartment and installing box-shaped divisions and furniture along one side of the 1,200 square foot space.".

+ Kerr Ritchie Architects' Drift Bay House at Arch Daily, "This family home was designed as a single fluid form that reclines into the sloping landscape on the edge of Lake Wakatipu. The long black form shifts and expands to suit the sun, the occupants' needs and the site.".

+ Hidalgo Hartmann's New Cabaña at Arch Daily, "Considered as a very private space the annex contains only a bedroom, bathroom and dressing room, where three main openings reveal the exterior surroundings.".

+ Juan Robles' Casa MC1, an eco-friendly home in the Costa Rican jungle at Plataforma Arquitectura (in English here).

+ Uncontained Living: Streamlining Residential Construction with DeMaria Designs, Archinect's story on Architect Peter DeMaria from DeMaria Design Associates. "Solving the various connection and structural problems, DeMaria now tries to think beyond the container, seeing it as a building block for new spaces.".

+ The Buena Terra Way Residence, an updated Mid-century modern in Phoenix. Via Apartment Therapy. Watch the slideshow.

+ Nonya Grenader's RBW Core House, shotgun on the outside, open concept loft on the inside. "With the insertion of a new core (bath, kitchen, and mechanical elements), modern conveniences were delivered to an existing 500 sq. ft. house at Project Row Houses in Houston's Third Ward.". Via Remodelista.

+ Ordering Out for More Space at the NYTimes, a prefab in the Bronx designed by Resolution: 4 Architecture.

+ The fourx4 playground playscape designed by Nocturnal Design Lab at eye candy. "Conceived as a suburban tree house (where the landscape is often devoid of large trees), four x 4 becomes an abstraction of nature on multiple levels.".