Nearly 2,000 pieces of plywood slot together like a puzzle in this staircase, which features in a London home that has been overhauled by local studio Tsuruta Architects. More about Tsuruta Architects designs staircase in London house from hundreds of plywood pieces
Pale mud bricks, teak wood and a textured black coating are all used to front this house in Mexico City, which architecture studio DCPP has designed around a pair of patios. More about DCPP arranges dark-walled Mexico City house around two courtyards
San Francisco's sinking skyscraper has descended another inch, but engineers have come up with a potential fix. More about Engineers propose solution for San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower
Architects should be more proactive in driving forward development proposals, says architect Elizabeth Diller in this exclusive video interview Dezeen filmed at the RIBA International Conference in London. More about Architects must work harder "to put new ideas on the table" says Liz Diller
One of Sydney's only examples of brutalist architecture has been given a second chance, after a court ruled against the government decision not to heritage list it. More about Sydney's Sirius building saved from demolition in "triumph for brutalism"
Architecture studio dRMM created a visitor centre clad in salvaged wooden boards as part of its overhaul of a seaside pier in Hastings, England – one of six projects in the running for this year's Stirling Prize. More about British seaside pier gets 21st-century update by dRMM
Large expanses of glazing contrast heavy masonry portions of this residence on California's Central Coast, designed by US firm Studio Schicketanz. More about Studio Schicketanz creates home with glass and stone walls in Clint Eastwood's California golf resort
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has released a movie detailing its proposal to extend the city's historic Union Station building with a ring-shaped, glazed passenger concourse. More about Ring-shaped concourse proposed for major renovation of Los Angeles' Union Station
Guests staying in the minimal rooms at this small hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico, can also dine from on-site food carts, sample local booze and shop products by Mexican designers. More about Boutique hotel in Cabo offers design store, food carts and mezcal bar
Getting paid on time, finding time to have children and dealing with long-hours culture were among topics discussed by executives from BIG, Zaha Hadid Architects and Design Haus Liberty at a business talk hosted by Dezeen in London last month. More about "Don't spend money you don't have" and "don't be afraid to be an asshole," architects advised
Jim Olson, co-founder of Seattle architecture studio Olson Kundig, has made a series of additions to a bunkhouse he designed and built aged 18, as a first-year architecture student. More about Jim Olson expands tiny cabin he built 60 years ago in rural Washington
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Freja Bao has devised a masterplan for a new Chinese cultural capital that could help to change the country's political image. More about Bartlett student Freja Bao designs pilgrimage destination "to rebrand China"
A plan to build self-sufficient floating cities outside of national borders features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More about The Seasteading Institute's floating cities are designed for unregulated innovation
This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. More about Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings
The house by Ruud Visser Architects features a brick facade that looks like a huge letter A, while its rear is a three-storey wall of windows. More about Ruud Visser Architects completes house in Holland that looks like a giant A
A library of parts could be used to create personalised self-build apartments, with this construction system designed by Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia as a solution to London's housing crisis. More about Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia designs construction system for modular housing based on I-beams
Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has added a Corten steel extension to the Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden, designed to open the building up to the adjacent sculpture park. More about Elding Oscarson creates "slightly bent" weathering steel extension to Lund's Skissernas Museum
This black woodland house by Robert Hutchison Architecture on the outskirts of Seattle is set around a gravelled courtyard, which provides its residents with a secluded outdoor space safe from roaming elk. More about Blackened wood house by Robert Hutchison provides retreat in Seattle forest
One of the founders of 31/44 Architects has built his own London home, which is arranged around three courtyards to make it easy for domestic life to spill outdoors. More about 31/44 Architects builds grey-brick house around three small courtyards in London
The owner of a construction company in Houston has collaborated with Seattle architects Suyama Peterson Deguchi to create a Japanese-influenced home that she built for herself. More about Houston contractor builds her own charred-timber residence designed by Suyama Peterson Deguchi