Design firms Bloco Arquitetos and Equipe Lamas used a mix of warm and cool materials in their refurbishment of a visitor centre in Brasília, designed by the late architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1960s. More about Oscar Niemeyer's Tea House in Brasília gets refresh by Bloco Arquitetos and Equipe Lamas
This week we've selected four companies with plenty of job opportunities available on Dezeen Jobs, including a number of vacancies at architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren and Philippe Starck's design studio. More about Four companies with multiple roles on Dezeen Jobs including Büro Ole Scheeren and Starck Network Agency
MAS Architecture Studio favoured passive ventilation over high-tech solutions in this installation for Dubai Design Week, which reimagines Emirati wind towers using 480 layers of recycled cardboard. More about MAS Architecture Studio's wind tower keeps visitors cool without air-conditioning
The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. More about The Object is Absent is a "less materialistic" design exhibition for an overcrowded world
Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw built Park Road Apartments, which contained their own homes, in the 1970s. We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the metal-clad housing block. More about Park Road Apartments is a radical housing tower clad in "ridiculous" metal
Dezeen Day generated eight tonnes of carbon emissions, according to a "quick and dirty" environmental audit of the conference by Sophie Thomas. More about Environmental audit reveals the carbon footprint of Dezeen Day conference
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has erected three prefabricated houses at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, to highlight the families that relocate their homes as river channels move within the Bengal Delta. More about Marina Tabassum brings prefabricated Bangladeshi homes to Sharjah
Design studio Office AIO has arranged partitions inside this pink-hued Beijing coffee shop to frame vignettes of customers enjoying their hot drinks. More about Basic Coffee in Beijing is designed to be "like a live advertisement"
Leading and emerging women working in architecture and construction discussed the experience of working in both fields at a talk held in Knauf's London showroom. More about Watch our talk with Knauf about women in architecture
Kids can identify plants, flowers and wildlife in their area while adding to a global biodiversity database that helps monitor the planet's health, using the augmented-reality app Seek by iNaturalist and the WWF. More about Seek app builds biodiversity database as users identify plant and animal species
ASWA Studio has designed as its architecture studio in Bangkok around a fully glazed internal courtyard that brings daylight into the building. More about ASWA wraps own architecture studio around internal courtyard
Skidmore Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to build a glass-and-ceramic office building for Disney's New York operations, called 4 Hudson Square. More about SOM to create Disney headquarters in New York City clad in green terracotta panels
A "dream home" built on the "tightest of budgets" by architects McGonigle McGrath has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the UK's best house of 2019. More about House Lessans in rural Northern Ireland wins RIBA House of the Year 2019
Thomas Heatherwick's Pier 55 park within New York's Hudson River has been renamed Little Island, as visuals and a video detailing the project's construction are released. More about Heatherwick Studio's Pier 55 renamed Little Island
Interior designer Jessica Helgerson has overhauled a home in Portland, Oregon to include decorative ceilings, floral wallpaper and shades of green and grey that evoke its rainy, cool climate. More about Jessica Helgerson uses "moody, green, lush" palette for Portland home renovation
Should architects ditch concrete for timber to save the planet? Dezeen's India Block and Lizzie Crook will be taking to Twitter on Wednesday 20 November at 4pm UK time to discuss whether timber is a better alternative to concrete. Join in using the hashtag #dezeenchat. More about Join Dezeen's Twitter debate on concrete vs timber with #dezeenchat
Prada has signed a £42.9 million loan with banking group Crédit Agricole, with repayment terms conditional to meeting key targets around the sustainability of its products and operations. More about Prada becomes first luxury brand to sign loan tied to sustainability targets
American studio Heliotrope Architects has created a holiday home for art gallery owners that is wrapped in dark metal, white stucco and large stretches of glass. More about Heliotrope tucks Collector's Retreat into lush wooded site in coastal Washington
Ingrid Moye is a director and co-founder of architecture studio Zeller & Moye. She explains what it's like to run an international firm in Mexico City, for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. More about Careers guide: Ingrid Moye of Zeller & Moye reveals what it's like to run a studio in Mexico City
A public esplanade envelops David Chipperfield's West Bund Museum in Shanghai, which contains the Centre Pompidou's first Chinese outpost. More about David Chipperfield completes iridescent West Bund Museum containing Centre Pompidou outpost