Japanese auto company Toyota has adapted a fleet of its autonomous and electric e-Palette vehicles to serve athletes in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More about Toyota redesigns its e-Palette vehicle for Tokyo 2020 Olympic athletes
Italian town squares became Branch Studio Architects' point of reference for the design of this school administration office in Melbourne, which is almost entirely lined in cardboard tubes. More about Branch Studio Architects creates piazza-style school office in Melbourne
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Micheline Nahra has disassembled a four-person dinner setting and rebuilt it for one person, in a bid to make absence visible. More about Micheline Nahra deconstructs and reconstructs a dining set
Invisible Studio has built a gymnasium for a hotel in Somerset, England, which is designed as one giant window so that the building has a minimal impact on its garden setting. More about Invisible Studio builds giant window in Somerset hotel garden
Michael Anastassiades worked with Gebrüder Thonet Vienna to develop this doodle-like lounge chair using the Austrian company's traditional material palette of steam-bent wood and woven cane. More about Michael Anastassiades designs N. 200 chair to look like a "doodle"
Five exciting architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week including positions at technology company Apple and global architecture firm UNStudio. More about This week's top architecture and design jobs include roles at Apple and UNStudio
Dutch architecture firm Space&Matter has turned a series of redundant canal-side bridge keeper's houses in Amsterdam into the SWEETS hotel. More about Space&Matter converts Amsterdam's bridge keeper's houses into hotel rooms
Brooklyn designer Fernando Mastrangelo has used a mix of black sand and resin to create the magma-like frames around this set of gold mirrors. More about Fernando Mastrangelo's Magma mirrors feature frames that resemble rock
First-time hotelier Seija Ojanpera quested after "retro" vintage furnishings from across the United States to complete the first boutique design hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. More about The Dwell Hotel becomes "Chattanooga's living room" with retro furnishings from junk shops, eBay and Etsy
Four sculptural, brick columns frame this small extension to a Georgian terrace in north London, designed by local practice Urban Mesh for the firm's director, James Beazer. More about Twisting brick columns support London terrace extension by Urban Mesh
A pinewood stud wall encloses this Aesop store in Sydney, which Mlkk Studio has furnished with domestic items to evoke 1960s Australian homes. More about Mlkk Studio channels nostalgia inside Aesop store in Sydney
UK architectural design standards were the talk of the town this week thanks to Mikhail Riches' Stirling Prize win. We're celebrating with new Pinterest boards on Passivhaus projects, social housing schemes and British architecture. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Get to know Passivhaus design with Stirling Prize winner-inspired Pinterest boards
London designer Phil Cuttance has created a series of herringbone-patterned vases from a gradated mixture of Jesmonite and crushed rock, to achieve an ombre effect. More about Phil Cuttance creates intricate Herringbone Stone Blend vases by hand
Mexican firm Santos Bolivar Architects has given the red-block buildings that form this inn reflective bottoms to make it seem like they are floating above the arid landscape in Valle de Guadalupe. More about Mirrored bottoms reflect desert site beneath Mexican inn by Santos Bolivar Architects
Tech-savvy hotel company Life House has designed its newest property in Collins Park as an homage to Miami's past as a Quaker stronghold. More about Life House Collins Park nods to Miami’s little-known Quaker origins with "lax minimalism"
Folding screens of woven steel surround the upper level of the latest building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which provides three storeys of exhibition, workshop and teaching spaces. More about Paulien Bremmer wraps "social hub" for Gerrit Rietveld Academie in woven-steel screens
As Poland goes to the polls on Sunday, the churches that were built in the 1970s and 1980s as a sanctuary against an oppressive state are now instruments in a political debate, writes Owen Hatherley. More about "The Law and Justice party faces re-election in Poland and the churches have been their foremost propagandists"
JC Architecture has converted a 90-year-old dormitory building in Taipei into a contemporary family home, to serve as a blueprint for reviving similar neglected historical properties throughout the city. More about JC Architecture transforms derelict dormitory into plant-filled home
This week on Dezeen, architects and politicians praised Mikhail Riches' "ground-breaking" Goldsmith Street after it became the first social-housing scheme to win the RIBA Stirling Prize. More about This week, the UK celebrated Goldsmith Street's Stirling Prize win
Artisan weaver Manju Devi hand-tied more than 200,000 knots to create this colourful one-off rug for the Jaipur Rug Foundation, which helps communities in rural India to preserve their traditional skills. More about Manju Devi's abstract Aas Pass rug is inspired by rural village life in India