Architect Les Eerkes rescued plywood cladding, kitchen cabinets and a tiny porthole window from houses set to be bulldozed for this rural cabin near the Puget Sound. More about Foraged materials form artist's home and studio in Washington woodland
We've created a new Pinterest board dedicated to homes on water, including the Japanese-inspired houseboat we published this week, a prefab floating house and an amphibious home that rises to avoid flood water. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Architect Matt Nardella has turned an abandoned bodega in Chicago into his home and studio, arranging spaces around a courtyard he created in the centre. More about Moss converts Chicago corner shop into art gallery, apartment and its own studio
Broad wooden steps lead from the living space of this Quebec residence, by local architects Bourgeois Lechasseur, down to the shores of Lac St-François. More about Quebec chalet by Bourgeois/Lechasseur steps down to a lake
Invisible Studio built this mobile micro home at its woodland studio near Bath, England, for just £20,000, thanks to the use of salvaged materials and locally grown timber. More about Low-cost micro home is made from timber and scavenged materials
Japanese practice Hibinosekkei has completed a nursery in Yokohama, which features plywood-lined interiors and house-shaped openings set into its dark facades. More about House-shaped windows puncture perforated metal facades of Yokohama nursery
Architecture firm OMA has revealed the design of its first cultural building in California: a pavilion featuring tilted walls and patterned openings that will accompany a Jewish temple in Los Angeles. More about OMA to extend historic Jewish temple in LA with skewed pavilion
Architect Roberto Rossi has completed a house in northern Italy that can rotate 360 degrees. More about Fully rotating house built in Italian countryside
UK studio Interrobang has transformed the Hoover Building in west London into 66 apartments that retain many of the former factory's original art-deco features. More about Interrobang converts London's landmark Hoover Building into apartments
A stone-filled gabion wall runs along one side of this green-roofed visitors pavilion by architect Anne Carrier, which emerges from a slope at a heritage site in Canada. More about Welcome centre for Quebec heritage site rises from the landscape
LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne has left his post at the newspaper to advise the city council on architecture and planning decisions. More about Christopher Hawthorne leaves LA Times to become city's chief design officer
With BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-To-Energy Plant due to open in Copenhagen later this year, this movie in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores how its year-round rooftop ski slope designed by SLA Architects was conceived. More about SLA Architects' ski park atop BIG's Copenhagen power plant to open this year
The Vatican City will make its debut at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year, by building a series of chapels by architects including Norman Foster, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Teronobu Fujimori. More about Vatican City's first Venice Biennale pavilion to feature chapels by Foster, Souto de Moura and more
New York studio T W Ryan Architecture has renovated a black house in the Long Island beach town of Montauk, using pale finishes inside to contrast the dark exterior of the gabled forms. More about T W Ryan renovates and extends black Surf House in Montauk
A social housing complex designed by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza in the 1970s is captured in this new photography series by Zeynep Yılmaztürk. More about New photos explore Álvaro Siza's 1970s social-housing project SAAL Bouça
The best hotels offer guests unique local experiences, says jury members for the AHEAD Asia hospitality awards, in this movie produced by Dezeen. More about A great hotel experience is "much more than just design" say AHEAD Asia awards judges
Engineering firm Arup and architecture studio CLS Architetti have revealed plans to 3D print a one-bedroom house at this year's Milan design week. More about Arup and CLS Architetti to build "Europe's first 3D-printed house" at Milan design week
Dezeen promotion: Young Architects Competitions is inviting designers to submit proposals for a contest that would see a military fortress in Sardinia transformed into a museum dedicated to the military history. More about Call for entries to YAC's Military Museum competition
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video reveals how a 2.3-metre-wide house in south London, designed by Alma-nac, has a staggered floor plan and sloped roof dotted with windows to make most of natural light. More about Slim House has large sloped roof to increase natural light
American studio Renée del Gaudio Architecture has created a nature retreat for a remote site with spectacular views, composed of two buildings clad in cedar and topped with gabled roofs. More about Renée del Gaudio creates pair of rustic cabins for rocky perch in Colorado