A new guesthouse and swimming pool are among the updates to a 56-year-old home on Fire Island that has been overhauled by American studio Andrew Franz Architect. More about Andrew Franz updates 1960s home on New York's Fire Island
Dezeen promotion: Metalform creates custom partition walls from steel and glass to section off homes and interiors without obstructing the flow of light. More about Metalform designs bespoke steel and glass partition walls
Dezeen Showroom: Ideal Work's Nuvolato Architop finish gives any surface the appearance of concrete with an application just three millimetres thick. More about Nuvolato Architop finish by Ideal Work
Dezeen Showroom: concrete flooring is enhanced through a colour-changing chemical reaction using the Acid Stain finish by Italian brand Ideal Work. More about Acid Stain finish by Ideal Work
Dezeen Showroom: Polish brand Vank has released its Vank Wall 3 system of acoustic panels, which is particularly suited to creating home office nooks. More about Vank Wall 3 acoustic panels by Anna Vonhausen for Vank
Four steel and concrete pavilions linked by glass bridges make up the Tianjin Juilliard School, which New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed in northeastern China. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro completes riverside Tianjin Juilliard School in China
Today marks 30 days to go until entries for Dezeen Awards 2021close. Read on for more notable numbers relating to this year's programme. More about 30 days to go until entries for Dezeen Awards 2021 close
Shopping centres don't have to "bright, white and shiny" according to AIM Architecture, which has transformed the Xintiandi mall in Shanghai by adding natural materials and plants. More about AIM Architecture turns shopping mall atrium into plant-filled plaza
Dezeen Showroom: The Anvers pendant by British brand CTO Lighting substitutes a traditional glass diffuser for a disk of translucent alabaster stone. More about Anvers pendant lamp by CTO Lighting
A photography book by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold reveals how the Christchurch Style movement produced an array of distinctive modernist houses in the New Zealand city in the 1960s. More about Christchurch's experimental mid-century houses revealed in book by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold