Low-lying volumes topped with overhanging roofs form this holiday home in the Pacific Northwest, which was designed by US studio Wittman Estes for a family of impassioned naturalists. More about Wittman Estes tucks Hood Cliff Retreat into a coastal forest in Washington
Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet. More about Malaysian designers propose building colony on Mars from locally grown bamboo
Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will give a keynote speech at Dezeen Day, our new international architecture and design conference taking place in London on 30 October. More about Paola Antonelli of MoMA to give keynote speech at Dezeen Day
Architecture studio Bornstein Lyckefors chose an unusual shade of green for the exterior of Granholmen, a humble cabin on the Swedish island of Kallaxön. More about Bornstein Lyckefors builds pale green cabin on rural Swedish island
Outdoor classrooms and active farmlands surround the extension to this ecological high school in Connecticut, which Gray Organschi built with cross-laminated timber to demonstrate sustainable design practices. More about Gray Organschi completes wooden high school extension with irregular roofing in Connecticut
A bar made out of old IKEA mattresses has won the architecture prize at Chart 2019, ahead of structures built from latex, salt, paper and jute fabric. More about IKEA mattresses used to build pop-up bar at Chart fair in Copenhagen
Dezeen promotion: a concrete grocery store converted into a boutique hotel and a series of remote timber-frame cabins on the Namibian coast are some of the projects shortlisted in the 2019 AHEAD MEA awards. More about Shortlist announced for AHEAD MEA 2019 hospitality awards
The Dezeen Awards 2019 architecture shortlist has been announced. It includes a cultural centre that doubles as public seating in Iran, a house in England made from recycled cork, and a thatched restaurant overlooking Peru's Sacred Valley. More about Dezeen Awards 2019 architecture shortlist reveals world's best buildings
A "breached monolith" hides a giant light-filled atrium at the heart of this Indian house, which Anagram Architects has completed on a busy street in New Delhi. More about Cleft House in India is split in two by full-height atrium
British designer John Pawson has applied his signature minimalist aesthetic to a Barbican flat, which is simply arranged around a timber volume. More about John Pawson pares back Barbican apartment to "a state of emptiness"
Morris + Company has completed a retirement living scheme with a bevelled brick facade for developer Pegasus Life in Hampstead, London. More about Morris + Company clads Hampstead retirement home in modulated brick
Quebec studio Atelier Pierre Thibault's portfolio is filled with remote getaways around Canada. Here are five houses the firm has designed that make the most of their wooded settings. More about Five woodland retreats in Canada by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Perforated metal screens and plants cover the facade of a factory and office complex in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed by Studio VDGA for electronics manufacturer Star Engineers. More about Colourful metal screens and plants cover factory and offices in Hanoi
Chunky black steelwork frame the sparsely furnished spaces inside this house in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil designed by architecture firm Estúdio BG. More about Minimal black and white Brazilian home by Estúdio BG draws on Bauhaus concepts
Herbst Architects has raised a house in Piha, New Zealand, on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland to the beach. More about House in New Zealand sits on a concrete plinth surrounded by trees
Plant-covered rooms surround private swimming pools at Wyndham Garden Phú Quốc, a holiday resort that MIA Design Studio is building on Vietnam's largest island. More about Tropical plants cover villas at Wyndham Garden Phú Quốc resort in Vietnam
A $100 million alteration designed to prop up the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in San Francisco has been approved as tenants reach a tentative settlement with its developers. More about 0 million repairs approved for San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower
The Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow has launched a postgraduate course to research how the Earth could be terraformed to reverse the impacts of climate change. More about Think tank to research terraforming Earth founded by Moscow’s Strelka Institute
Korean practice WGNB has designed the flagship shop for fashion brand Juun.J in Seoul as a cluster of black geometric forms. More about WGNB designs all-black flagship store for fashion brand Juun.J
In our latest competition, we're offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of New Nordic Houses by Dominic Bradbury, which affords a glimpse into more than forty contemporary Scandinavian homes. More about Competition: win a copy of New Nordic Houses by Dominic Bradbury