A mountainous river valley forms the backdrop to the XY Yunlu Hotel, which Atelier Liu Yuyang has built within a series of renovated farmhouses in Guangxi, China. More about Atelier Liu Yuyang reuses old farmhouses to create boutique hotel in rural China
A folded metal roof tops this holiday home by Chilean firm Mas Fernandez Arquitectos, which was built using simple, cost-effective materials. More about Mas Fernandez designs BL House to embrace natural setting in Valparaíso
The moment has arrived! Winners of the 30 Dezeen Awards project categories will be announced this week, starting tomorrow with the architecture categories. More about Winners of Dezeen Awards 2019 project categories will be announced from tomorrow
This house designed by Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple for a site on the Nova Scotia coast comprises a cluster of Corten-clad buildings that are influenced by traditional fishing huts. More about Smith Residence by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple is a "village" of gabled steel structures
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