The slaughterhouses and abattoirs in this roundup, originally built for slaughtering animals, have been transformed into galleries, breweries and cooking schools. More about Six former slaughterhouses reimagined for new purposes
Amsterdam studio More Architecture used a large zigzagging roof to shelter Floating Hotel, which is dramatically positioned among the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping, China. More about More Architecture perches Floating Hotel among Chinese mountains
Mexican architect Carlos H Matos has completed a concrete house designed to be an "ode to antiquity" and "futurity" in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. More about Carlos Matos references Mexico's "profound transformations" in secluded retreat
Local architecture practice Dubrovska Studio has created a fitness studio lined with curtains and outfitted with custom furniture made from materials sourced from around Kyiv in the face of wartime shortages. More about Dubrovska Studio uses "leftovers" in Kyiv to furnish local dance studio
Peach-toned walls and arched openings define Baia Villas, a set of six holiday homes in Goa that Mumbai studio Jugal Mistri Architects has designed to evoke local vernacular. More about Peach-coloured walls enliven Goan holiday homes by Jugal Mistri Architects
Japanese studio Kooo Architects has designed the skinny Hotel Rakuragu in central Tokyo to have a "unique shape", with cut-out balconies that help to preserve privacy. More about Kooo Architects creates narrow Tokyo hotel with cut-out balconies and terraces
Toronto architecture studio Partisans has used parametric modelling to create an undulating stone storefront for a jewellery store with a dedicated boutique for luxury watch brand Rolex. More about Partisans sculpts limestone facade for boutique in Toronto
Architecture practice Parallel Studio has punctured the white walls of this children's library in Zanzibar with small holes, providing natural ventilation and casting shadows across books inside. More about Parallel Studio creates Mariam's Library for young students in Zanzibar
Scottish practices Loader Monteith and Studio SJM have completed The Harmeny Learning Hub outside Edinburgh, which is clad in larch to blend in with its woodland surroundings. More about Loader Monteith and Studio SJM create woodland school in Scotland
This week on Dezeen, American studio Manica Architecture revealed its design for a stadium for the Chicago Bears football team featuring a translucent roof and a glass-curtain wall at its entrance. More about This week Manica Architecture unveiled glass-fronted stadium for Chicago Bears
US studio Ervin Architecture has unveiled the latest phase of an open-air theatre in Bangor, Maine with wood-clad, sawtooth boxes that flank open-air seating. More about Ervin Architecture unveils expansion of Maine's largest building
New York architecture studios SO-IL and Office of Strategy + Design have announced plans for the adaptive reuse of a series of warehouse buildings at a marina on the Detroit River as part of the Little Village development. More about SO-IL to convert Detroit warehouses into multi-purpose art spaces
Global architecture studio Henning Larsen has designed a rowing club defined by a sloping green roof and timber structure in the Faroe Islands that celebrates the area's sports heritage. More about Henning Larsen sets timber Klaksvík Row Club next to Faroe Islands fjord
Concrete loggias overlook a courtyard at this social housing block in Paris, which French studios Francois Brugel Architectes Associes, H2o Architectes and Antoine Regnault Architecture have converted from offices. More about Parisian office blocks transformed into Ilot Saint-Germain social housing
Japanese studio Tono Mirai Architects has used soil and wood to create Toiletowa, a curving structure in Saitama prefecture containing a public toilet that reuses wastewater. More about Tono Mirai Architects encloses toilet in Japanese park with rammed earth
Dezeen teamed up with kitchen appliances brand Gaggenau to host and film a talk about reduction in design with representatives from Zaha Hadid Architects, SOM and Industrial Facility during Milan design week 2024. More about "Less is more is back" says panel during Gaggenau talk at Milan design week
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the approval of Foster + Partners' 18 Blackfriars Road development in London. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Foster + Partners' plans for "London's lowest whole-life carbon high-rise"
British automotive manufacturer Aston Martin and Argentinian architecture studio Bodas Mian Anger have completed a skyscraper in Miami with a curved, flat form and a cantilevered pool deck near its top. More about Cars and hurricanes inform "sail-shape" of Aston Martin's first residential skyscraper
Belgian studio Mamout has extended a townhouse in Brussels, adding a small garden room built from a prefabricated shell of pastel green-coloured steel. More about Mamout adds "smallest possible extension" to townhouse in Brussels
Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. More about Elding Oscarson creates CLT dome theatre inside Swedish museum extension