Providing sweeping views of a wilderness reserve was the primary goal for US studio Lubrano Ciavarra when designing this large wood-and-slate holiday home in Rhode Island (+ slideshow). More about Lubrano Ciavarra clads weekend retreat in Rhode Island using cedar and rough-cut slate
London Design Festival 2016: with this year's London Design Festival less than a month away, Dezeen's Alice Morby selects her pick of the best installations and exhibitions that will be taking place across the capital. More about The 10 top installations and exhibitions at London Design Festival 2016
Soho House & Co's in-house design team and London architects Michaelis Boyd have overhauled a run-down farm in Oxfordshire to create Soho Farmhouse – a hotel that combines English countryside style with "upstate New York cabin culture" (+ slideshow). More about Soho House and Michaelis Boyd turn derelict farm into luxury members' hotel
Comments update: readers are discussing Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge this week after the British designer suggested that ditching the project so soon after Britain's vote to leave the European Union would be a step "backwards" for the country. More about "Scrapping the Garden Bridge wouldn't indicate that the UK has lost confidence"
Colorado architecture firm Arch11 has raised a single-family residence on a concrete plinth to provide unobstructed views of the Rocky Mountains (+ slideshow). More about Arch 11 completes Rocky Mountain home atop a concrete plinth
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for architects to submit projects to the American Architecture Prize, which will be judged by Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Sadie Morgan and Will Alsop (+ slideshow). More about Call for entries to American Architecture Prize 2016
Photographer Iwan Baan has released new images of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's recently completed medical building for Columbia University, which trades a typical educational facility's "boring" horizontal layout for vertical organisation (+ slideshow). More about Iwan Baan photographs Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Vagelos Educational Building in New York
To make medals for Tokyo 2020, Olympic organisers are considering mining Japan's vast repositories of e-waste for millions of discarded smartphones and computers. More about Tokyo Olympics medals could be made of old smartphones
Designer Armin Fischer has converted an old stone farmhouse in the Ibizan countryside into a rustic members-only retreat offering guests ritualistic activities like communal farming and meditation (+ slideshow). More about La Granja Ibiza is a members-only retreat with a rustic "back-to-basics" design
Sports brand Adidas is releasing child-size editions of the popular Yeezy Boost trainers designed by rapper Kanye West (+ slideshow). More about Adidas unveils toddler versions of Kanye West's Yeezy Boost 350
Japanese designer Yota Kakuda has combined industrial and citrus tones in his interior design for Bake Kitasenju, a cheese tart shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Sunset-hued counter welcomes customers at Tokyo cheese tart shop by Yota Kakuda
Chinese studio MAD has draped a "skin" of white asphalt shingles over the wooden structure of an old house in Japan's Aichi Prefecture to create a kindergarten with a curving roofline (+ slideshow). More about MAD transforms Japanese house into curvaceous kindergarten with a slide along one wall
Northmodern 2016: glass-fronted cabinets and pick-and-mix lighting systems feature in Danish brand Ferm Living's Autumn Winter 2016 collection (slideshow). More about Ferm Living unveils collection of minimal furniture and homeware
Rhode Island studio 3six0 has created a geometric wooden cabin "cut like a gemologist shaping a stone" to serve as a retreat for an artist from Providence (+ slideshow). More about Tiny cabin in Rhode Island by 3six0 provides retreat for local artist