New Chinese Architecture is a new book spotlighting the country's emerging architectural talents, all of whom happen to be women. Author Austin Williams talks Dezeen through five of the most exciting architects and their projects. More about Five buildings that show how female architects are building China's future
Ace Hotel's in-house creative team has completed a new hotel next to the New Museum in New York, featuring warm wood self-check-in booths, a diner-style restaurant and compact bedrooms designed like "Japanese bento boxes". More about Atelier Ace draws on warmth of Finnish saunas for Manhattan's Sister City hotel
Architecture firm BIG has unveiled its second project for developer Uribe Schwarzkopf in Ecuador's capital city: a mixed-use tower comprising two curved blocks covered in herringbone-patterned cladding. More about BIG designs EPIQ tower for Quito covered in earthy coloured tiles
OMA and Laboratorio Permanente's Agenti Climatici masterplan will turn two abandoned goods yards in Milan into public parks to filter the city's air and water pollution.
More about OMA and Laboratorio Permanente to transform two Milanese railway yards into "ecological filters"
Casson Mann used 3D laser scanning to create replicas of 20,000-year-old cave paintings at the Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art, which won Interiors Project of the Year at Dezeen Awards 2018. The designers explain their process in this movie. More about Digital technology adds "layer of understanding" to Lascaux International Centre for Cave Art
Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith has been named interim chair of the UK's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, after Roger Scruton's removal. More about Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission gets new chair after Scruton sacking
Dutch artist Aldo Bakker used a 12,000-year-old Japanese technique to create a series of lacquered objects currently on show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York City. More about Aldo Bakker exhibits sculptural urushi lacquer pieces in New York
In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Clerkenwell Design Week for its 10th anniversary to give away a floor lamp by London design studio Haberdashery. More about Competition: win a Dawn to Dusk lamp by Haberdashery
Paris-based Studio NAB thinks a giant greenhouse could be built on top of Notre-Dame Cathedral to replace the roof lost in last month's devastating fire. More about Studio NAB proposes turning Notre-Dame's roof into public greenhouse
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo is planning to relocate the nation's capital away from Jakarta, the world's fastest-sinking city. More about Indonesia to replace sinking Jakarta with new capital city
Creating the sets for the final season of fantasy epic Game of Thrones was a "logistical nightmare", says production designer Deborah Riley. More about Game of Thrones season eight "was as intense as you can imagine" says production designer
Kelvin Ho designs interior concepts for boutique hospitality clients and high-end fashion retailers at Akin Atelier. The architect tells the Dezeen Jobs careers guide how he accumulated experience needed to found his own studio. More about Careers guide: Kelvin Ho of Akin Atelier reveals how he started his own design firm
An eccentric fictional family informed the vivid interiors of this pop-up shop in west London, which has been designed by creatives Selena Beaudry, Clemmie Myers and Natalie Tredgett. More about Art, fashion and interiors merge in Mrs and Mr Bateman pop-up shop
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has released a new custom typeface that its partners, sellers and consumers can use free of charge to establish their own brand identities. More about Alibaba offers bespoke typeface to businesses looking to rebrand
Morris + Company has wrapped a metal arcade around a vaulted timber restaurant pavilion at Wildernesse House, a retirement living scheme in Kent, England. More about Morris + Company builds vaulted wooden restaurant with aluminium arcade
New York firm GRT Architects has used a simple palette to offset the existing details of this mid-century house in New York's Hudson Valley, which it overhauled for the architect's grandchild. More about GRT Architects revitalises mid-century house in Upstate New York
Airbnb's offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvanto to join the company's housebuilding initiative. More about Airbnb's Samara hires Apple industrial designer to join housing initiative
Stop worrying about the privatisation of public spaces, says Owen Hopkins, because the biggest threat to our democracy is the internet. More about "The internet is broken and technology alone won't be enough to fix it"
Red handmade bricks and corrugated metal form this dormitory at a school in an Andean village in Bolivia, which was designed and built by Berlin architecture students and German architect Ralf Pasel. More about Ralf Pasel and students use handmade bricks for boarding house at Bolivia school
In this week's comments update, readers are angered by designs proposed to replace Notre-Dame Cathedral's destroyed spire. More about "Quasimodo will be very disappointed"