Architecture studio Naso has built a pale earthen brick house on a sloping site in rural Mexico to replace a property left devastated by the country's deadly 2017 earthquake. More about Vaulted concrete roof tops brick house Casa Martha by Naso
Canadian architectural practice StudioAC has taken cues from the work of late American artist Donald Judd for fittings inside this Toronto home. More about StudioAC designs Toronto house "disguised as a gallery"
A perforated metal facade screens a round school in Denmark designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter around a central triple-height gym. More about Lundgaard & Tranberg clads cylindrical school in perforated metal
A baby-pink kitchen and a colourful patchwork carpet help revive the interior of this formerly lacklustre 1960s apartment in Bilbao, Spain, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Azab. More about Bilbao's Mixtape Apartment has a baby-pink kitchen
This week on Dezeen, architects and governments alike bet on the future potential of wood as a construction material, with plans unveiled to build public buildings and skyscrapers from the material. More about This week, timber buildings were proposed in France, Canada and the US
To coincide with Stockholm Design Week, the city's 19th century Gamla Riksarkivet played host to The Archive exhibition exploring the "shared aesthetics and values" of Japanese and Scandinavian design. More about Stockholm's historic national archive hosts first ever design exhibition
Architecture studio Generate and developer Placetailor have unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block in Boston using a cross-laminated timber "kit of parts". More about Generate and Placetailor to build carbon-neutral CLT apartment block in Boston
A scientist employed by the Dutch government has suggested building two dams to enclose the North Sea and defend northern Europe from rising sea levels. More about Scientist suggests damming the North Sea to protect Europe from climate change
Design gallery The Future Perfect has created its third Casa Perfect showroom in Los Angeles to pay homage to its 1970s aesthetic of the Beverly Hills house it inhabits. More about The Future Perfect turns 1970s Beverly Hills house into Casa Perfect showroom
Unusual, innovative and avant-garde approaches to seating were among the highlights of Dutch design fair Object Rotterdam, which took place earlier this month. Anna Winston picks six of the most intriguing chairs from the annual event's crop of up-and-coming talent. More about Six alternative approaches to seating from Object Rotterdam 2020
Architecture studio Cooking Sections and engineer AKT II have created an experimental landscape in Sharjah to demonstrate how desert plants could be used as an alternative to water-hungry greenery in arid cities. More about Zero-water garden created in Sharjah to show how desert plants can thrive in cities
American toy designer Cas Holman advocates "open-ended play". She tells Dezeen that with children's lives becoming increasingly regimented, we need to let them play more freely. More about "We don't give children the freedom to play" says designer Cas Holman
Less is a Bore by Dezeen columnist Owen Hopkins reveals the diversity of postmodern architecture from around the world. Here, he spotlights 10 significant structures from the book that come in all shapes, sizes and colours. More about Less is a Bore book celebrates "postmodern architecture in all its forms"
Louis Vuitton has opened a restaurant and cafe inside its new store in Osaka, Japan, with interiors fashioned by the brand's in-house design team. More about Sugalabo V is Louis Vuitton's first restaurant
Seoul design studio Useful Workshop has created a furniture series made from sheets of aluminium that are bent to form curves using industrial machinery. More about Useful Workshop's Curvature furniture is made from pressed sheet metal
The rocky north coast and traditional white-washed buildings of Menorca inform the irregularly stacked boxes of a holiday home in Coves Noves by architects Nomo Studio. More about Nomo Studio creates angular stacked holiday home in Menorca
Sidewalk Labs, the architecture and urbanism arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a digital model for what would be the world's tallest mass-timber building, reaching 35 storeys. More about Sidewalk Labs tests possibilities for timber construction with 35-storey Proto-Model
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American architect Eric J Smith has used stone, oak and glass in this poet's writing studio, to "reinforce its sense of belonging" in the Connecticut woods. More about Eric J Smith cantilevers Writer's Studio over forested hillside in Connecticut
Swedish artist Aia Jüdes has given gnarled tree offshoots a new lease on life by turning them into a series of lights decorated with rainbow LEDs, velvet scrunchies and shining puddles of brass. More about Aia Jüdes merges tree outgrowths and fibre optics to make flamboyant lamps