Behind the crumbling exterior of a 100-year-old cowshed in Japan's Tokushima Prefecture, architect Issei Suma has inserted a glass and steel office for a computing company (+ slideshow). More about Glass and steel office by Issei Suma inserted into century-old Japanese cow barn
This concrete painting studio by Santiago studio Felipe Assadi Architects is half-submerged in the cliffside gardens of a house on the Chilean coastline (+ slideshow). More about Concrete painter's studio by Felipe Assadi nestles into a rocky hillside on the Chilean seafront
US firm Ross Barney Architects has completed a transit station for an emerging Chicago neighbourhood, featuring a tubular structure made of stainless steel and polycarbonate panels (+ slideshow). More about Ross Barney Architects wraps a Chicago rail station in a perforated tube
This pavilion in Holon, Israel, designed by New York-based architects MODU with Geotectura, has a dynamic canopy made of mesh fabric and small balls that move with the wind (+ movie). More about Cloud Seeding Pavilion by MODU features canopy made of 30,000 plastic balls
Sheltered beneath an oversized roof, this tiny timber cabin by AA graduate Nozomi Nakabayashi stands on stilts among the oak trees of a wood in Dorset, England (+ slideshow). More about Nozomi Nakabayashi creates writer's hut on stilts in the Dorset woods
The three parallel boxes that form this house in Tel Aviv all culminate in a full-height glazed wall facing the garden, while large square apertures puncture the various side walls (+ slideshow). More about Three white boxes extend into the garden of Paritzki & Liani's T/A House
A house-shaped extension protrudes from the side of this children's centre by Seoul studio UTAA, providing a playful space for reading that faces out onto a garden (+ slideshow). More about UTAA extends South Korean children's centre with "a house within a house"
A requirement for this house in Matsuyama, Japan, was for views of the city's summer firework display, so architect Teruki Takayoshi added a balcony, a roof terrace and a two-storey-high window (+ slideshow). More about Matsuyama house by TTArchitects features dedicated spaces for watching fireworks
This oxidised-steel extension to an end-of-terrace Victorian house in east London peeks over the top of the adjacent brick boundary wall, which is interrupted by a matching steel gate (+ slideshow). More about HÛT uses pre-rusted steel for extension to Victorian brick house in London
Turkish creative consultancy Designnobis has devised a temporary shelter that could be easily transported and quickly assembled to house those displaced by natural disasters (+ slideshow). More about Designnobis proposes pop-up disaster relief shelter for earthquake-affected families
Architects are increasingly proposing new architectural uses for shipping containers, such as replacing slum housing with skyscrapers formed from the stacked metal boxes and forming staircases by balancing them at an angle. We've collected together the best shipping-container projects, both realised and proposed, from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.
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A timber sunshade folds in on itself to form a balcony for this nautical-inspired house overlooking the Mediterranean sea near Saint-Tropez, designed by London architecture office Jak Studio (+ slideshow). More about Timber sunshade becomes a viewing deck for retreat near Saint-Tropez by Jak Studio
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has created a bridge spanning a Copenhagen canal, which features a series of wire masts based on ships' rigging (+ slideshow). More about Copenhagen bridge by Olafur Eliasson is designed to resemble ship masts
Archipl-Architects has converted a 19th-century factory into the regional headquarters for a care home in Ghent, Belgium (+ slideshow). More about Archipl-Architects converts former washing machine factory into light-filled workplace
Australian studio Made Group has completed a pool house for a Melbourne home with a faceted timber ceiling inspired by origami (+ slideshow). More about Origami Pool House by Made Group features a faceted timber ceiling
Square and circular holes puncture the concrete facade of this house in Japan by Fuse Atelier, allowing light to filter through to five small terraces concealed behind (+ movie). More about Fuse Atelier's House in Tsudanuma brings light in through a perforated concrete facade
Pomo summer: the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, designed by Charles Moore, is one of the few icons of Postmodern architecture that isn't a building, and is next in our summer season on Postmodernism. More about Postmodern architecture: Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans by Charles Moore
Fernando Romero and two other Mexican architects have unveiled plans to transform Mexico City's Avenida Chapultepec into a public park featuring trees, cafe plazas, a raised promenade and water features. More about Mexican architects to create public park in the centre of a busy Mexico City road
Developers in London claim to be building the world's first sky pool, but an even more extreme suspended glass-bottomed swimming pool is already underway in India (+ movie). More about Transparent swimming pool to bridge Indian tower blocks 12 storeys up
The culture, climate and resources of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region informed the design of this refuge for victims of domestic violence, made up of various yellow buildings arranged around a courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Hollmén Reuter Sandman uses local materials and motifs for Kilimanjaro women's refuge