A car sunroof influenced the skylight that tops this small angular office, which design-and-build practice Knowhow Shop has completed to accompany its woodshop in Los Angeles. More about Knowhow Shop's faceted white studio in LA is "built like a piece of furniture"
Boston is moving ahead with plans to address rising sea levels predicted as a result of climate change, using designs by New York firm SCAPE. More about SCAPE contributes to Resilient Boston Harbor flood-protection project
This pavilion erected in the pond of a Mexico City park was built from stacks of earthen blocks, which were dismantled to be rebuilt as part of a community centre in a town hit by last year's deadly earthquake. More about Pavilion by Mexico City architects to become community centre in earthquake-hit town
Dezeen promotion: design brand Humanscale has released a minimalist LED desk lamp for people who spend all day in front of a computer. More about Humanscale's Infinity lamp designed to combat eyestrain from bright computer screens
In this week's comments update, readers are convinced that Herzog & de Meuron has designed its Museum of the 20th Century badly on purpose, to emphasise the beauty of the neighbouring Neue Nationalgalerie. More about "What an ungainly neighbour for the elegant Mies building"
A stool containing secret storage and a laundry basket that rolls up are among 11 prototype products presented by young Finnish designers, for an exhibition at Helsinki design fair Habitare. More about Eleven Finnish designers present ingenious products for small-scale living
American studio kt814 Architecture has created a single-storey dwelling for a retired couple, consisting of connected pavilions wrapped in large stretches of glass and two types of wood. More about House of Fir by kt814 Architecture sits among sagebrush in rural Wyoming
This captioned video shows the dramatic helix staircase that Danish studio CEBRA has created inside the Experimentarium science centre in Copenhagen. More about Experimentarium's 10-tonne copper helical staircase revealed in new movie
Shanghai-based studio ATAH's arts centre in the Chinese city of Shaoxing is a glazed cylinder intersected by a spiralling walkway that doubles as a stage. More about Stairs spiral around the perimeter of ATAH's glazed Heli-stage art space
Barcelona's Antoni Gaudí-designed Sagrada Familia has agreed to pay instalments to the city authorities, after 136 years of construction without a building permit. More about Sagrada Familia agrees €36 million payment after building for 136 years with no permit
British architect Norman Foster, founder of Foster + Partners, has temporarily suspended himself from the advisory board of Saudi Arabia's Neom project, in response to Jamal Khashoggi's murder. More about Norman Foster steps back from Saudi tech city over journalist's murder
WeWork has added to its roster of London locations by setting up a shared working space inside James Stirling's renowned No 1 Poultry building, one of the UK's most significant postmodern buildings. More about WeWork opens co-working space inside Stirling's No 1 Poultry
Dezeen promotion: German ceramics company Villeroy & Boch has predicted the features that will appear in future hotels, in a recently released piece of research. More about Villeroy & Boch predict automated receptionists in The Hotel of the Future e-book
Students from Sweden's Umeå Institute of Design have created a minimal, low-cost earthquake alarm that is also a source of calm during non-destructive incidents. More about Terra alarm alerts people before an earthquake hits