A new digital billboard in London's Piccadilly Circus uses recognition technology to display targeted advertisements based on the make of passing cars, and the gender and age of pedestrians. More
Canadian design studio Atelier Filz has collaborated with local craftsmen to create custom-made pieces for a restaurant in Quebec City, including aluminium lamps and a glazed entryway. More
This week, we've scoured our Pinterest archives for high-rise apartments with vertiginous views of city skylines. From a luxury penthouse in Manhattan's tallest tower to a 30th-floor condominium in Kiev, here are some of the best from around the world. More
Mexican architecture studio Productora has attached a two-storey steel unit onto the back of a bungalow in California to add more living space. More
Architect Curro Checa Romero has refurbished and extended a 1980s house in east London, more than doubling its interior dimensions and creating a series of light-filled spaces with an improved connection to the rear garden. More
Park Hill estate is to receive a new Carmody Groarke-designed art gallery and suite of studios, as part of the redevelopment of the brutalist housing scheme built in 1961. More
Construction has begun on Zaha Hadid Architects' residential high-rise in the Mexican capital, set to become the city's tallest apartment building. More
Dezeen promotion: Spanish surface manufacturer Compac has revealed five new variations of its quartz surface material, each based on textures and patterns found in the natural environment. More
A simple house features on the cover of Reinier de Graaf's new book, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession. In this extract, the OMA partner reveals the building's secret, politically fuelled past. More
The smooth surface and soft-pink hue of a newly plastered wall provided the starting point for the design of communal workspaces at this new creative hub in east London by local studio Sella Concept. More
The spherical, weighted base of this floor lamp by Australian designer Nick Rennie stops it from falling over if pushed or knocked. More
Snaking wooden walkways traverse a terraced garden planted with 700 trees at the heart of this tower development in Singapore's Marina Bay by Ingenhoven Architects and landscape firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman. More
