In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Kip Hideaways to give readers the chance to win a two-night stay for four people at the Kingsbridge Hideaway in Devon, as well as a year's membership to Kip. More about Competition: win a two night-stay at Kip's Kingsbridge Hideaway
Architecture studio Bradley Van Der Straeten has extended a house on a housing estate in Stoke Newington, London, by adding an additional half storey hidden from the street. More about Bradley Van Der Straeten adds hidden half-storey extension to London home
The ground appears to have fallen away beneath this minimal house, designed by architectural designer Jonathan Burlow in Kent. More about Over The Edge is a minimalist house with a cantilevered corner
In this week's comments update, readers are in disagreement over the American Institute of Architects publicly protesting against an order that federal buildings be built in "classical architecture style." More about "Finally getting architecture where it should be again"
The "most radical" changes to civilisation come from the countryside rather than cities, according to architect Rem Koolhaas, who will explore the topic in a major exhibition opening at New York's Guggenheim Museum next week. More about Guggenheim New York releases teaser video ahead of Rem Koolhaas Countryside exhibition
A 1980s building designed by the late architect IM Pei to house Indiana University's art collection has received a sensitive update by Ennead Architects and architect Susan T Rodriguez that includes a new skybridge. More about IM Pei's Eskenazi Museum renovated with subtle additions in Indiana
Roksanda Ilincic, Benjamin Hubert and Dara Huang explained how they built their businesses at Dezeen Day last October, with Huang revealing that the secret to success as an entrepreneur is "finding people better than you". More about Watch the video of the discussion on how to be an entrepreneur at Dezeen Day
Contact lens cases, vegetable vases and pill packets are some glass objects by students at Lund University in Sweden to explore how the reusable could help the transition to a circular economy. More about Lund University students cast household items in glass instead of plastic
Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. More about Indigenous technologies "could change the way we design cities" says environmentalist Julia Watson
Textile artist Daisy May Collingridge has designed a family of fleshy, fabric bodysuits as "a joyful representation of the human form". More about Daisy May Collingridge's "squishy" flesh suits quash the idea of an ideal body type
A community of nuns have donated their convent in New Orleans to create the Mirabeau Water Garden wetlands and improve the city's system for flood prevention. More about Nuns offer up convent as wetlands to fight flooding in New Orleans
A sloping wall clad in slim white tiles hides the formerly problematic facade of this minimal patisserie in Hangzhou, China, which has been designed by Say Architects. More about Curved tiled wall guides customers inside Hangzhou's Angelot patisserie
Danish furniture brand Møbel has collaborated with Studio David Thulstrup to create a duo of odd-couple tables – one made entirely from ceramic and the other from contrasting, powder-coated steel. More about Studio David Thulstrup designs "co-dependent" Pair side tables for Møbel
An oversized roof supported by large wooden beams shades the interiors of this home that FujiwaraMuro Architects designed in the Japanese city of Nara to take cues from the form of a mountain hut. More about Large sloping roof shelters House in Gakuenmae by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Projects by HOK, Arquitectonica and Morphosis have been singled out for criticism in president Trump's draft executive order for federal buildings, which would outlaw brutalist and deconstructivist styles if it becomes law. More about Trump's Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again decries brutalist and deconstructivist architecture
Brooklyn creative agency An Aesthetic Pursuit has designed a bold rental house in Maine with furniture and products that guests can purchase. More about An Aesthetic Pursuit designs shoppable Airbnb in Maine
British architecture studio Asif Khan has revealed the Expo Entry Portals, gateways to the Dubai Expo 2020 woven from carbon fibre to create 21-metre-high mashrabiya-style lattices. More about Asif Khan unveils carbon-fibre latticed gates for Dubai Expo 2020
Caroline Baumann has stepped down from her position as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the New York Times has reported. More about Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann resigns
Greece has been criticised for plans to erect a floating barrier of nets on the border with Turkey in the Aegean Sea to deter people crossing by boat. More about Greece plans floating sea barrier to keep out refugees
In this exclusive video interview filmed as part of our high-tech architecture series, British architect Norman Foster explains how the headquarters he designed for HSBC in Hong Kong in the 1980s transformed his architecture firm into a global brand. More about HSBC headquarters was "more than just a building" says Norman Foster