Beijing-based Arch Studio has renovated this house in the city's Dongcheng district, adding a perforated-steel staircase designed to make climbing to the top feel like "walking into the sky". More about Arch Studio adds sculptural white staircase and glass roof extension to Beijing house
This cafe in the Iranian capital is designed to act as a semi-public venue in the city, where open gathering spaces are starting to become popular again after years of heavy policing (+ slideshow). More about Modaam Architects' cafe aims to create a new kind of public space in Tehran
Taiwanese studio HAO Design installed a play area in the kitchen of this family home so the children could spend more time with their parents. More about HAO Design adds wooden slide and swings to family home in Taiwan
Inside Festival 2015: Australian office March Studio has been awarded the World Interior of the Year prize for its design of a sculptural timber lobby and utilitarian bar at a Canberra hotel. More about Hotel Hotel lobby and bar by March Studio named World Interior of the Year 2015
Inside Festival 2015: an office featuring 26 types of workspace and an education facility for dentistry students are among today's category winners at the Inside Festival (+ slideshow). More about Inside Festival interior design awards 2015 day two winners announced
London studio Brinkworth and designer Michael Marriott have overhauled an old pub inside and out to create a second branch for chicken restaurant Bird. More about Brinkworth strips back 1930s London pub to create fried chicken restaurant
Walls based on traditional Chinese screens can be moved to create exhibition spaces within this Beijing art gallery by local firm Arch Studio (+ slideshow). More about Arch Studio adds foldaway walls to Beijing art gallery
Inside Festival 2015: a converted stable home featuring a treehouse-like bedroom and a hotel featuring a sculptural timber entrance are among the first category winners at this year's Inside Festival awards (+ slideshow). More about Inside Festival interior design awards 2015 day one winners announced
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the interior of fashion brand Comme Moi's first flagship store, installing custom-made metal rails and cage-like cabinets (+ slideshow). More about Neri&Hu installs continuous clothing rail through Comme Moi flagship store
London firm Jump Studios has renovated a 19th-century battery factory in Madrid to create the sixth Google Campus – a co-working space for entrepreneurs and start-up companies. More about Jump Studios completes Google co-working space in former Madrid battery factory
Argentinian studio It Met used corrugated plastic and sheets of wood to partition the workspaces of this advertising agency in Buenos Aires. More about It Met uses modular panels to create flexible workspace for Buenos Aires ad agency
Ukrainian designer Olga Akulova added glazed partitions, metal-topped counters and a wooden bath to this apartment on the 30th level of a condominium in Kyiv. More about Olga Akulova installs glass walls and monolithic fireplace within Kyiv penthouse
KAMP Arhitektid has installed angular wooden rooms and five metre-high trees inside a former factory in Estonia, to create an office modelled on a "bright summer forest". More about KAMP Arhitektid creates tree-filled office within former Soviet-era factory
The São Paulo Museum of Art is recreating a 1968 exhibition design by Brazilian Modernist Lina Bo Bardi, with updated versions of her glass and concrete easels. More about Lina Bo Bardi’s "radical" glass easels revived for exhibition of Brazilian art
People appear to be dancing, jumping and skating behind the seemingly translucent facade of this public restroom, which has just been named Japanese Toilet of the Year (+ movie). More about Japan's "toilet of the year" by Klein Dytham Architecture seems to offer no privacy
Canadian studio Scott & Scott has "brightened up" the interior of a mid-century property north of Vancouver, adding simple wooden surfaces, white-washed walls and a marble sink (+ slideshow). More about Scott & Scott updates Canadian mountain house interior using timber and marble
Standard Studio has created a home for a family inside a former teachers' lounge – part of a wider conversion project by Casa Architecten that turned an early-20th-century school in Amsterdam into a series of apartments (+ slideshow). More about School teachers' lounge transformed into contemporary loft apartment by Standard Studio
Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering original details like parquet flooring and adding contemporary lighting and black steel fittings (+ slideshow). More about IFUB installs bespoke black steel fittings in 1930s Art Deco apartment renovation
Materials uncovered during the renovation of this early-20th-century apartment in Montreal have been used to add texture to the space and create visual boundaries between each room. More about Anne Sophie Goneau exposes brickwork within Montreal apartment renovation
This renovated Paris apartment for a fashion designer features a vertical herb garden, rainbow-striped flooring and a staircase with irregular alternating treads (+ slideshow). More about SABO Project transforms Paris apartment with multicoloured flooring and space-saving stairs