Brazilian architect Alan Chu has completed the renovation of a São Paulo apartment, which uses ceramic ventilation bricks to form partitions and furniture (+ slideshow). More about Traditional ceramic blocks feature in Alan Chu's São Paulo apartment renovation
Melbourne-based Tandem Design Studio has designed the interior for a shop that sells both footwear and health products, featuring a complex wooden shelving system that "combines geometries" (+ slideshow). More about Tandem installs elaborate wooden shelving inside Hugg health and footwear store
Italian architecture firm +R Piuerre has converted a dental practice at the top of a Milanese building into a 60-square-metre apartment (+ slideshow). More about Milan dental studio converted into compact two-storey apartment
Dara Huang of London studio Design Haus Liberty said she "used the palette that was already there" to ensure the newly created apartments of this converted building in the city's Marylebone district kept within a small budget (+ slideshow). More about London homes by Design Haus Liberty combine exposed plaster with off-the-shelf materials
Israeli studio Pitsou Kedem Architects knocked four apartments into one to create this two-storey penthouse in Tel Aviv, which features a rooftop pool offering views out over the city (+ slideshow). More about Pitsou Kedem combines four apartments to create penthouse home with sculptural wall surfaces
New York architecture firm Grzywinski+Pons aimed to create a space that is "as warm and cheerful as it is urban" when planning the interior of this hotel in Queens (+ slideshow). More about Boro Hotel interior designed as a mash-up of Copenhagen, Seville and New York City
By lowering the ceiling of this London home, Scenario Architecture has created a view between the living room and the roof terrace, allowing parents to keep an eye on their children when they play outside (+ slideshow). More about Scenario Architecture lowers a ceiling to create a sunken roof terrace for a London home
Preston Lane Architects has renovated the kitchen inside a 19th-century house designed by British architect Henry Hunter – aiming to "inject light and life" into the property (+ slideshow). More about Preston Lane Architects renovates kitchen of 19th-century house in Tasmania
Japanese studio Kubo Tsushima Architects has renovated a wedding chapel in Tokyo's Ebisu district – painting each windowsill in colours of the rainbow to "impart faint hues" as light filters through (+ slideshow). More about Rainbow hues are cast onto the walls of Kubo Tshushima's Tokyo wedding chapel
American architect Richard Meier has created a private museum and library in New Jersey to house his vast collection of models, sculptures, paintings and books from a career spanning more than five decades (+ slideshow). More about Richard Meier creates private museum in New Jersey to showcase his work
Colombo and Serboli Architects and Margherita Serboli Arquitectura has renovated an apartment within an early 1900's building – aiming to "retrieve its Art Nouveau essence" through the restoration and recreation of original features (+ slideshow). More about Renovated Barcelona apartment features vaulted brick ceilings and colourful floor tiles
Amsterdam-based Occult Studio has designed the flagship store for eyewear brand Ace & Tate – installing wooden panels with peg holes that allow displays and mirrors to be easily moved around (+ slideshow). More about Wooden pegboard lines the walls within Ace & Tate's Amsterdam eyewear store
Sydney design studio Sibling has installed a grid system based on 3D rendering programmes to define the working areas within the new Australian headquarters for digital animation studio Squint/Opera (+ slideshow). More about Sibling installs wireframe "matrix" in Squint/Opera's Melbourne office
This staircase inserted into a terraced house in London features alternating treads that make the most of a tight space, and perforated steel surfaces that allow light to filter through. More about DBLO Associates adds perforated steel staircase to refurbished London home
Slanted panels maximise display space against the crumbling concrete walls of this Shanghai streetwear shop, while reflective panels create a disorienting experience akin to a hall of mirrors (+ slideshow). More about Linehouse installs diagonal partitions and mirrored panels in a Shanghai boutique
Wooden bookshelves installed against slanted walls help to define the different areas of this open-plan loft apartment that h2o Architectes has renovated in the Arsenal district of Paris (+ slideshow). More about h2o Architectes adds angular shelving units to a book collector's Parisian loft apartment
Ren Pepe Arquitetos has converted part of a former bank in Porto into a dental surgery, featuring geometric patterns that reference the city's many tiled frontages (+ slideshow). More about Tile motif creates patterned interior for Porto dental clinic by Ren Pepe Arquitetos
Canadian architecture studio Scott & Scott used materials that "wear-in with use" for the interior of this pan-Asian restaurant in Vancouver (+ slideshow). More about Torafuku restaurant by Scott & Scott features utilitarian interior designed to get better with age
Belgian duo Studio Job has patterned giant windows at the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires with coloured symbols and replicated the motifs on the floor of a roller disco inside (+ slideshow). More about Studio Job's Futopia Faena exhibition includes stained glass windows and a roller disco
A plywood storage wall stores and displays furniture, ingredients and cooking apparatus at this Paris culinary workshop by architecture studio Septembre (+ slideshow). More about Tools and furniture hook onto a plywood wall in Paris cookery classroom by Septembre