Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka has stripped an office in south-west Tokyo back to the concrete to create a fashion boutique that looks more like an abandoned warehouse for Japanese brand EEL (+ slideshow). More »

Slideshow: diagonally skewed lighting disrupts the perpendicular arrangement of this creative workspace in Seoul by Korean architecture and design studio M4. More »

A neat row of wooden louvers conceals a small sleeping chamber inside the attic staffroom of a hair salon in Hamamatsu, Japan. More »

Japanese studio 403architecture laid the patchwork floor of this bedroom using timber stripped from the ceiling. More »

Japanese architects 403architecture have turned the floor of this refurbished apartment in Hamamatsu into a huge chest of drawers. More »

The stairwell ascending through the centre of this Tokyo house is illuminated from a skylight and glows through translucent glass partitions. More »

Rough concrete columns and beams frame the living room ceiling of an apartment in San Sebastian. More »

Japanese architects Maker have completed a hair salon featuring gauze partitions and booths in untreated wood. More »

In the last few weeks we've published a few projects that intentionally look as though the builders haven't left yet. Here's a roundup of all the apartments, salons and shops on Dezeen that feature patches of plaster, scaffolding, dangling wires and hoarding-like woodwork. See all the stories »

Following our earlier story about an apartment with the appearance of an elegant building site, here's another renovated flat in Japan that appears to be unfinished. More »

Unfinished plywood and cement smeared over concrete give a renovated Tokyo apartment the appearance of an elegant building site. More »

Tiled surfaces, scientific apparatus and plastic curtains turn this Paris cafe into a coffee laboratory. More »

This Melbourne cafe by French designer Sasufi features a 12 metre-long wall covered in timber offcuts. More »

Milan 2011: London interior designers and stylists Studio Toogood invited food and design collective Arabeschi di Latte to serve black food to guests at midnight dinners in a darkened apartment in Milan last week. More »