Atelier Pierre Thibault has created an addition to a 1950s residence in Canada, providing its occupants with a new living room, studio, and garage. More about Atelier Pierre Thibault extends ageing Montreal home with double-height living space
While bungalows are generally considered to be a final home for many, the architects of these seven projects made them worth moving into before reaching retirement age. More about Seven bungalows worthy of an early retirement
Brooklyn-based Studio Tack has transformed a rundown motel in northern California, creating a mellow atmosphere with vintage furniture, pastel colours and palm-patterned prints. More about The Sandman hotel by Studio Tack is "a modern throwback to roadside inns"
Dutch studio HOP has completed a specialty coffee bar in Amsterdam with an open-plan layout that revolves around a central bar and three seating islands. More about HOP scatters mid-century furniture throughout Public Space coffee bar
Portland-based design studio Ilovehandles has created wrapping paper that can have an afterlife as origami figures, to avoid the mess and waste associated with ripping the paper off presents. More about Origami Wrap is a gift wrap printed with folding instructions for origami figures
This week on Dezeen, Italian architect Renzo Piano volunteered to design a new bridge for his home town of Genoa to replace the collapsed Ponte Morandi bridge. More about This week, Renzo Piano offered to design a bridge to replace the Ponte Morandi
TU Delft graduate Dermot Horgan has created a concept for a neighbourhood that would be built around a publicly accessible data bank, to make the topic of personal information central to society. More about Dermot Horgan imagines personal data bank at centre of future Amsterdam neighbourhood