Spanish architect Alejandro Valdivieso has repurposed a former water cistern near Madrid, transforming it into the basement of a house with a glass facade that curves around the original well. More about Alejandro Valdivieso's Casa Aljibe features curved living space built around an old well
Vietnamese architecture studio Kientruc O has given a modernist makeover to an old house in a narrow Ho Chi Minh City alleyway, transforming it into a restaurant with a lush garden wrapped by gridded glazing. More about Tropical plants and geometric glass walls screen house and restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City
British furniture brand Vitsœ has opened a new headquarters and production facility in the English town of Royal Leamington Spa, featuring a saw-toothed roof and modular construction that means it can be easily updated. More about Vitsœ completes "intentionally unfinished" cross-laminated-timber headquarters
Following a spate of high-profile schemes proposed for the United Arab Emirates, we created a new Pinterest board of the country's most eye-catching developments, including OMA's first project in Dubai and Jean Nouvel's recently opened Louvre Abu Dhabi. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Utah firm Imbue Design has designed various outdoor living spaces, including a protected courtyard and a wrap-around deck, for a family home in Park City. More about Imbue Design builds Red Hawk Residence in Utah around a courtyard
Red and grey tones run through the rammed earth walls that US firm Feldman Architecture has used to build this retreat on a farm in California's Central Valley. More about Stripy rammed-earth walls curve through holiday home on Californian walnut farm
Artist duo Gilbert & George are converting a 19th-century brewery in London's Spitalfields into their own public gallery, and claim it is because the Tate never shows their work. More about Gilbert & George are turning an east London brewery into an art gallery
This museum in Beijing takes its name from the red brick used by architect Dong Yugan to create spaces that are dramatically illuminated by skylights, perforations and narrow windows incorporated into its homogenous masonry surfaces. More about Dong Yugan uses brick to form sculptural surfaces and playful structures at Red Brick Art Museum
Mexican architecture studio Productora has attached a two-storey steel unit onto the back of a bungalow in California to add more living space. More about Productora adds steel-frame extension to pink bungalow in Los Angeles
Architect Curro Checa Romero has refurbished and extended a 1980s house in east London, more than doubling its interior dimensions and creating a series of light-filled spaces with an improved connection to the rear garden. More about Checa Romero Architects "makes the most" of small brick house by extending in every direction
Park Hill estate is to receive a new Carmody Groarke-designed art gallery and suite of studios, as part of the redevelopment of the brutalist housing scheme built in 1961. More about Carmody Groarke unveils plans for art centre at Sheffield's Park Hill estate
Construction has begun on Zaha Hadid Architects' residential high-rise in the Mexican capital, set to become the city's tallest apartment building. More about Zaha Hadid Architects begins work on Mexico City's "highest residential tower"
A simple house features on the cover of Reinier de Graaf's new book, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession. In this extract, the OMA partner reveals the building's secret, politically fuelled past. More about "Can a house be beautiful simply because of what we know, not because of what we see?"
Snaking wooden walkways traverse a terraced garden planted with 700 trees at the heart of this tower development in Singapore's Marina Bay by Ingenhoven Architects and landscape firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman. More about Terraced gardens echoing paddy fields fill centre of Singapore's Marina One
A crematorium, a sports field and a multi-storey charging station for driverless cars are among six shortlisted proposals to repurpose decommissioned gas holder sites across the UK. More about Six ideas to transform Britain's decommissioned gas holders make shortlist in RIBA competition
Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has released a movie showcasing architect Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago, in a bid to protect the postmodern government building from demolition. More about Movie protests demolition of Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center in Chicago
A subterranean Roman temple where a mysterious cult worshipped has been restored within an immersive museum below Bloomberg's headquarters in London by 9/11 memorial museum exhibition designers Local Projects. More about Underground Roman temple reopens as immersive museum using light, haze and sound
The V&A museum has salvaged a three-storey section of Robin Hood Gardens, the much-debated brutalist social housing estate by Alison and Peter Smithson that is currently being demolished in east London. More about V&A acquires entire one-bedroom flat from Robin Hood Gardens
Architecture studio Penda has created a modular, flexible and reusable building system for MINI Living, featuring a range of living spaces that can be plugged together to form customised micro homes. More about Penda proposes "radical future-living concept" with recyclable modular dwellings
Architect Delfino Lozano has completed this house in Zapopan, Mexico, featuring decorative concrete screens, a pair of brick-paved courtyards and cool-blue walls. More about Concrete latticework and two courtyards filter light into Mexican house by Delfino Lozano