Architect Yussef Agbo-Ola and cacao farmer Tabita Rezaire have designed an installation at London's Serpentine Gallery made of wood recycled from past exhibitions that explores medicinal plants. More about Serpentine installation an "invitation to develop an intimacy with plants"
Inflatable "teahouses" and futuristic foods feature in Ask Me if I Believe in the Future, a conceptual exhibition at the MK&G design museum in Hamburg. More about MK&G Hamburg presents optimistic visions for an uncertain future
Swedish studio Atelier Paul Vaugoyeau worked closely with fashion label Asket to design its minimalist office in Stockholm, which features oak wood tables, parquet floors and soft white furnishings. More about Oak furniture and parquet flooring feature in Scandi-style Asket office
Three gabled volumes come together to form this "village-like" coastal residence in Chile called Casa El Pangue by local architecture studio Combeau Arquitectura and Andrea Murtagh. More about Combeau Arquitectura clusters gabled forms for Chilean ocean getaway
Swiss practice Leopold Banchini Architects has completed a wooden shack in New South Wales, Australia, that overlooks a remote creek through a fully-glazed facade. More about Leopold Banchini Architects perches wooden shack above an Australian creek
A Swedish house with a stairway hidden behind a bookcase and an architect-revamped new build in the Netherlands feature in our latest lookbook of ten homes with colourful staircases that draw the eye. More about Ten homes that use colour to turn stairs into statements
Finnish interior designer Linda Bergroth has brought together unexpected colour combinations for the Durat showroom in Helsinki, which is filled with the manufacturer's terrazzo-like surface material made from plastic waste. More about Unusual colour combinations make up Durat showroom in Helsinki
The Milan office of David Chipperfield Architects has designed a minimalist boutique for fashion brand Akris in Washington DC, featuring pleated walls and displays suspended from thin wires. More about David Chipperfield Architects designs minimal Akris boutique in Washington DC
Dezeen School Shows: a landscape garden for the Bengali community of Whitechapel in London and a pedestrian market on Vienna's Ringstrasse are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. More about University of Applied Arts Vienna spotlights 15 master of architecture projects
Dogs and humans live side-by-side in specially designed spaces at this home and dog hotel in Thailand, completed by local practice EKAR Architects. More about EKAR combines home in Thailand with hotel and activity spaces for dogs
Rough-hewn granite and smooth marble are among the materials chosen for the living rooms in this lookbook, which use stone to create elegant interiors. More about Ten contemporary living rooms with cool stone surfaces
This week on Dezeen, RIBA revealed the shortlist for this year's Stirling Prize, which was dominated by projects in London. More about This week the Stirling Prize shortlist was revealed
Canadian studio Icon Architects has released its design for a 31-storey tower in Toronto that, if completed, will be the tallest mass-timber structure in North America. More about Icon Architects unveils design for tallest mass-timber building in North America
Self-taught architectural designer Marc Gerritsen has completed a sculptural, metal-clad house for himself in northern Colorado that is designed to endure storms and wildfires. More about Marc Gerritsen wraps MAAD Peak house in weathering steel
Dezeen School Shows: a modular co-housing scheme for performers and a repurposed brewery featuring teaching spaces are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Nottingham. More about University of Nottingham presents 10 engineering and architecture projects
Australian practice Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) has completed a cluster of buildings for the Bundanon Art Museum in New South Wales, including an inhabitable flood bridge containing residences and educational spaces. More about KTA completes Bundanon Art Museum in Australia with inhabitable flood bridge
French architect and designer Philippe Starck used warm tones and mid-century references in his renovation of Villa W, a boutique wellness hotel on the coast of Saint-Tropez. More about Philippe Starck draws on mid-century modernism for Saint-Tropez hotel
Sketch Design Studio has designed and built a farmhouse in northern India that combines rammed earth walls and a thatch roof with a form inspired by stepwells. More about Mud House by Sketch Design Studio takes cues from Rajasthan stepwells
As BIG and Barcode Architects' recently revealed Sluishuis building demonstrated, housing blocks don't have to be cuboid. Here is a roundup of 10 unusually shaped apartment buildings. More about Ten apartment blocks that break the mould with unusual shapes
Dezeen Showroom: Dutch designer Bertjan Pot and Moooi have continued their collaboration on the Heracleum lighting range by introducing the lamp's third revision. More about Heracleum III light by Bertjan Pot for Moooi