Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. More about Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades
Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, known for avant-garde designs such as clothes that dissolve, will receive this year's London Design Medal. More about Hussein Chalayan awarded London Design Medal 2018
Minimalist designer Michael Anastassiades is behind Bang & Olufsen's circular Beosound Edge, which is both speaker and volume knob in one. More about Michael Anastassiades designs Bang & Olufsen speaker you adjust by rolling
There is just one week left to enter Dezeen and MINI Living's competition to design an urban home of the future, which closes on Monday 10 September 2018. More about One week left to enter Dezeen and MINI Living's £10,000 Future Urban Home Competition
Jubilee Pool Penzance, a triangular lido built in 1935, is set to be transformed into the UK's largest heated seawater pool, by London-based Scott Whitby Studio. More about Penzance could become "spa town of Cornwall" with revamp of art-deco sea pool
Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Squire and Partners in London. More about Top five architecture and design jobs this week include The Met and Squire and Partners
Irish architect Kieran Donnellan and a team of students have built a non-denominational chapel on a clifftop near the 12th-century Byblos Castle in Lebanon. More about Kieran Donnellan works with students to build tiny clifftop chapel in Lebanon
Fall has arrived, which means many design events are starting soon, particularly across Europe and Asia. Highlights listed in our definitive guide include Dubai Design Week, Istanbul Design Biennial, Vienna Design Week and Beijing Design Week. More ›
More about Dezeen events guide: autumn highlights include design weeks in Dubai, Beijing and Vienna
This brick holiday home by Argentinian architecture firm Estudio Galera, in a seaside town south of Buenos Aires, references the "formal and material austerity" of the surrounding properties. More about Estudio Galera uses "common bricks" for Casa Rincón in Argentinian seaside town
Chicago architect Jeff Klymson has designed a home for himself inside an old industrial building in the city, while reserving the ground floor for the studio of his firm Collective Office. More about Collective Office founder converts Chicago factory into his apartment and studio
A steel grid containing 102 olive trees fronts this extension to a house in Bangkok, designed by locally based architecture office Anonym. More about Flower Cage House is a Bangkok home with a facade of olive trees
East London design studio Haberdashery has created floor and table lamps with light sources that change colour as they move up and down, to resemble the rising and setting sun. More about Haberdashery's colour-changing Dawn to Dusk lamps rise and set like the sun
We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to mirrored buildings, including a mirrored toilet on one of Norway's Scenic Routes and an Austrian apartment block that reflects the facades of surrounding historic buildings. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
More about Reflect on the best mirrored buildings from around the world via our Pinterest board
Balint Alovits' photography series Time Machine features architectural staircases in Bauhaus and art deco-style buildings in Budapest, Hungary. More about "Infinite" spiralling staircases in Budapest captured in photography by Balint Alovits
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