Swiss architect Rafael Schmid has overhauled his 1920s home in Zurich, pairing the property's original herringbone parquet flooring with more contemporary chipboard and mineral-based surfaces (+ slideshow). More about Rafael Schmid updates his Zurich home with textured chipboard and smooth anhydrite surfaces
This miniature shop installed at London's Southbank Centre was designed by How About Studio to resemble the finishes of a public swimming pool (+ slideshow). More about Mobile Shop by How About Studio features white tiles and a small pool ladder
Italian brand Riva 1920's Earth Table features a bent iron base designed by Renzo Piano to symbolise the Twin Towers wreckage (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano designs symbolic table for World Trade Center
Rio 2016: if you've been inspired to get active after watching this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, check out our new Pinterest board full of innovative sportswear designs including athletics apparel created from the same material as condoms and trainers made out of recycled ocean plastic.
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Miami studio Oppenheim Architecture has overhauled a local house to allow residents to divide their time between indoors and out (+ slideshow). More about Oppenheim Architecture adapts Miami Beach home for tropical living
Argentinian studios Moarqs and Ottolenghi Architects designed this chunky concrete building to provide extra accommodation for a house in Buenos Aires Province (+ slideshow). More about Pabellon Hinrichsen is a chunky concrete outbuilding for a house in Argentina
As the demand for houses in London keeps on growing, architects are still managing to find old warehouses to transform into new homes and live-work spaces. We've rounded up some of the best examples, including an apartment with a raw-steel movie archive and an industrial space converted into an artist's studio (+ slideshow). More about Six of the best London warehouse conversions
British inventor Dominic Wilcox has designed a contemporary art exhibition for our canine counterparts, featuring a dog bowl-shaped ball pool and an open car window simulator (+ movie). More about Dominic Wilcox designs contemporary art exhibition for dogs
Warsaw studio MFRMGR has renovated the offices of Polish sound production company Ztudio, using wooden frames and polycarbonate sheets to create semi-transparent workspaces (+ slideshow). More about MFRMGR creates semi-transparent cubicles for sound production office in Warsaw
This week on Dezeen: British designer Thomas Heatherwick was forced to defend his Garden Bridge proposal this week after reports emerged that the project was missing £22 million in funding. More about This week, Heatherwick defended his Garden Bridge after a funding gap was revealed
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola's first collaboration with Danish metalware brand Georg Jensen includes upside-down jugs and a set of tilted vases (+ slideshow). More about Patricia Urquiola designs "warm and masculine" collection for Georg Jensen
A cluster of eight interconnected concrete volumes make up this Martha's Vineyard residence, which is designed to be moved in the event of site erosion (+ slideshow). More about Eight concrete boxes form a "moveable" vacation home on Martha's Vineyard
Artists and writers wanting to play out a "desert fantasy" can rent a tiny sleeping pod at a remote campsite in southern California, which looks like a scene from a sci-fi film (+ slideshow). More about Tiny camping pods by Andrea Zittel serve as a creative refuge in the California desert
It's World Photo Day! To celebrate, we've rounded up 10 of the most popular recent photo essays on Dezeen, including Modernist Palm Springs houses shot by moonlight and Lego models of Brutalist buildings. More about 10 of the best architectural photography series for World Photo Day
Fashion brand Milly's logo freezes, grows flowers and is applied like body paint in this campaign by New York design studio Sagmeister & Walsh (+ movie). More about Flashing models appear in Sagmeister & Walsh's rebrand campaign for fashion label Milly
An exposed concrete island, a dark walnut staircase and spotty tiles all feature in our roundup of the most-pinned kitchens to be featured on Dezeen (+ slideshow). More about 10 of the most popular kitchens from Dezeen's Pinterest boards
Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model of a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts of survivors (+ movie). More about Forensic Architecture forms digital reconstruction of Syrian "architectural instrument of torture"
Japanese design brand Muji has revealed the prototype for its latest prefab house, which it will test by having a competition winner move in rent-free for two years (+ movie). More about Muji to test prefab house by letting a competition winner live in it for free
A devastating forest fire cleared the land that this weathering steel-clad house by Colorado architect Renée del Gaudio was built on (+ slideshow). More about Renée del Gaudio builds Colorado home on land devastated by forest fire
Taxi app Uber will trial a fleet of autonomous Volvos on the roads of Pittsburgh later this month, the latest development in the race towards driverless cars (+ slideshow). More about Uber's self-driving taxis to arrive in the US this month