Australian architect Andrew Maynard has doubled the size of a house in Victoria by adding a row of skinny gabled blocks, intended to make the building look like a small village rather than a monolithic block (+ slideshow). More about Andrew Maynard's "anti-monolith" house is made up of seven small blocks
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and researcher Ammar Mirjan explains how drones could be programmed to construct buildings in the first of two movies about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in architecture. More about Drones can "collaborate to build architectural structures"
Collages and sketches of designs by the late architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický have been collected together for an exhibition at the Architectural Association in London (+ slideshow). More about Jan Kaplický's futuristic drawings go on show at London's Architectural Association
Comments update: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's declaration of the death of fashion led the debate this week. More about "Fashion is not dead. Mainstream fashion is dead"
Business news: design e-commerce platform Fab.com has been bought by manufacturing company PCH, which plans to sell unique products alongside the website's existing offering of furniture and accessories. More about Fab acquired by PCH to create "the Netflix of design"
An old train carriage forms one half of this family home in Takasago, Japan, while the other half looks like it could be a railway station (+ slideshow). More about Takanobu Kishimoto's Platform is a home built around a train carriage
Shoes appear to rest on huge rolls of white paper inside this Camper store in Stockholm – the third interior design concept that Japanese studio Nendo has developed for the Spanish shoe brand (+ slideshow). More about Nendo fills Camper's Stockholm store with paper-thin spirals
Australian studio Mihaly Slocombe has returned to a Melbourne home it completed almost a decade ago to add a timber nursery annex patterned with circular cutouts (+ slideshow). More about Mihaly Slocombe extends vineyard home in Australia with wooden nursery
Stockholm 2015: design studio Färg & Blanche has launched a collection of upholstered stools for Gärsnäs, the Swedish furniture brand that already produces its Emma and Emily chairs. More about Färg & Blanche adds Elsa and Jack stools to Gärsnäs furniture family
Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow). More about Designers convert lifeguard towers into winter pavilions for Toronto's frozen beaches
News: from April visitors to the Czech city of Pilsen will be able to visit three restored interiors designed by influential Modernist architect Adolf Loos in the early 20th century (+ slideshow). More about Restored Adolf Loos-designed interiors open to the public in Pilsen
Italian designer Moreno Ratti has created a vase from rings of marble offcuts that are piled up like the pieces in a Tower of Hanoi mathematical puzzle. More about Moreno Ratti's marble vase stacks like a mathematical puzzle
News: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has published her Anti_Fashion manifesto, outlining why she believes the fashion industry "is going to implode". More about Li Edelkoort publishes manifesto explaining why "fashion is obsolete"
News: the Egyptian government has revealed plans to construct a 200-metre-high skyscraper modelled on the country's most famous architectural structures. More about Egypt plans pyramid-inspired skyscraper in Cairo
Diagonal slats of timber line the boxy recesses set into the facade of this house in Portugal that has been remodelled by architect Ernesto Pereira (+ slideshow). More about Ernesto Pereira updates a coastal Portuguese home with timber-clad cutaways
News: electronics company Samsung has launched two smartphone models at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, including one with a display that curves at the edges (+ slideshow). More about Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone features a curved screen
An angular concrete box has been stacked on top of a rectilinear one to create the form of this yachting club facility near Buenos Aires (+ slideshow). More about Estudio Ramos completes concrete sailing clubhouse on Argentina's Paraná River
Brazilian architect Marko Brajovic has fixed thousands of bright red shoelaces to the undulating ceiling of this Camper footwear shop in Melbourne (+ slideshow). More about 30,000 red shoelaces hang from the ceiling of Melbourne's Camper store
South Korean designer Jeonghwa Seo has designed a collection of desktop accessories made of Jeju Island basalt by local artisans, with shapes referencing the volcanic landscape. More about Basalt desk accessories by Jeonghwa Seo originate from a Korean island
A modern timber and glass structure connects the more traditional stone-walled buildings at either end of this house in the Scottish highlands, designed by architects Stuart Archer and Liz Marinko (+ slideshow). More about Gabled stone and glass Torispardon house reinterprets Scottish farm buildings