This prefabricated house in Portugal costs about the same price to manufacture as a family car (photographs by José Campos). More »

Dezeen Wire: in this movie filmed by cultural collective Pacific Standard Time, rapper Ice Cube explains his love of architecture and how the work of renowned architects Charles and Ray Eames inspires him. More »

Climbers in the Alps can now spend their nights sleeping in a tube that cantilevers over the edge of a mountain. More »

The pitched roof atop this Paris house won’t keep out the rain – it’s actually a pergola for growing fruit over a roof terrace. More »

Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month. More »

Architecture collective Cityförster have completed a wooden house in the Netherlands with a black rubber skin. More »

Imagine waking up in a glass bedroom by the waterside on a remote Finnish island.  More »

Here’s an extremely pointy apartment block by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office. More »

Grey and white blinds create a chequerboard pattern against the facade of this Barcelona school by MMDM Arquitectes. More »

The roof of this Malibu house is made from the wings of an aeroplane. More »

The roof and upper walls of a house in Tübingen, Germany, are covered in rubber, like a fisherman’s hat pulled low over his eyes. More »

Dezeen Wire: Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision reports that architects’ enthusiasm for using prefabricated elements has continued to increase since their report on prefab use in Europe this time last year. More »

This time last year our most popular story featured electricity pylons shaped like giants striding across the Icelandic landscape.  More »

This roof of this sea-facing holiday house in Perth jolts up and down to create four irregular gables. More »