American firm Sparano + Mooney Architecture has covered a family home in Utah with hundreds of weathering steel plates to give the exterior a textured appearance (+ slideshow). More about Sparano + Mooney clads Utah residence in hundreds of scale-like steel shingles
Comments update: angry readers took to Dezeen's comments section this week after we reported on the Kardashians' penchant for Modernist architecture, but could exposure to wider audiences actually be a good thing for the profession? More about "The Kardashians are a barometer of popular culture and taste"
World Heritage Corb: the lakeside home Le Corbusier designed for his parents is next up in our series in which we take a closer look at the 17 projects recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. More about Le Corbusier designed Villa Le Lac as a lakeside home for his parents
Home rentals website Airbnb has created a multipurpose office space based on traditional Japanese interiors and neighbourhoods for its Tokyo employees (+ slideshow). More about Airbnb models Tokyo office on local neighbourhoods
Graduate shows 2016: in this movie, Royal College of Art graduate Johnny Lui explains his concept for a digital planning system, which architects would play like a video game to get projects built in the real world. More about Johnny Lui reimagines London planning process as multiplayer video game
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a pavilion on the bank of Shanghai's Huangpu River, with thin metal columns surrounding a glass-walled room shaped like a cartoon cloud (+ movie). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Cloud Pavilion is a glass-walled events space in Shanghai
Creatives must "get their act together and speak with a united voice" to protect the future of the sector post-Brexit, according to London Design Festival and Creative Industries Federation founder John Sorrell. More about Creative industries must present a united front to make best of Brexit says John Sorrell
Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit projects that feature Spanish-made ceramics to the Tile of Spain Awards 2016 (+ slideshow). More about Call for entries to the Tile of Spain Awards 2016
A concrete screen wraps the upper storey of this villa in Buenos Aires Province, blinkering bedroom windows from the street and directing views into a planted courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Moarqs and Ottolenghi Architects wrap Lamas House with concrete screen
The form of this chair by designer Pedro Venzon is based on the curves and shapes found in architecture left over from Portugal's colonisation of Brazil (+ slideshow). More about Pedro Venzon bases stackable Pudica chair on Brazil's colonial architecture
A brick volume containing a games room balances on steel beams that raise it above the sloping plot of this house in the Mexican city of Zapopan (+ slideshow). More about Delfino Lozano's Casa G features an elevated brick games room
A proposal to add a giant curvaceous greenhouse on top of the pavilion designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964-65 World's Fair has won a competition to suggest uses for the abandoned structure. More about Architects imagine new uses for Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion
Online retailer Needs & Wants Studios has collaborated with a Toronto architecture student to transform a shipping container into a mobile boutique that serves as the brand's first physical store (+ slideshow). More about Shipping container serves as mobile boutique for luxury sportswear brand Needs & Wants
An expansive terrace provides a meditation space at this weekend residence and spiritual retreat in the Utah desert, which US firm Imbue Design completed using stone-filled gabions for some of the external walls (+ slideshow). More about Gabion cages filled with volcanic stone support meditation platform at Utah spiritual retreat
French practice Bertrand Guillon Architecture has made the most of extra height at the front of this shop in Marseille when transforming the interior into an épicerie (+ slideshow). More about Bertrand Guillon fits petite delicatessen into 35-square-metre Provencal shopfront
A pair of artists built and lived in this house balanced on a pole in upstate New York, which spun around and inclined as they moved around it during their week-long residency (+ movie). More about Rotating and tilting ReActor house accommodates two artists for five days
England's primary professional football competition has kicked off its 2016/2017 season with a significantly more minimal lion's head logo. More about England's Premier League gets a minimal rebrand by DesignStudio
A+Awards: the next project in our series on winners from this year's A+Awards organised by US site Architizer is a holiday home for a Brooklyn-based family in Rhode Island, with a charred-timber facade (+ slideshow). More about Rhode Island holiday home by Bernheimer Architecture features pyramid-like skylights
Emil Eve Architects has paired original details with contemporary finishes in this loft apartment, which it created inside a Victorian warehouse building in Shoreditch, east London (+ slideshow). More about Emil Eve Architects retains historic "quirks" in Shoreditch warehouse conversion
Dezeen promotion: the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid is inviting architecture and design graduates to enter a pair of competitions, with prizes that include university scholarships and paid internships at international studios. More about Call for graduates to enter IE School of Architecture and Design competitions