Curved board-marked concrete walls wrap around the front of this residence in Quito, Ecuador, which local firm Estudio Felipe Escudero modelled on "the physical form of a hug". More about Casa Roca's curved concrete walls are designed to give an architectural "hug"
The living spaces in this house designed by Suppose Design Office in Higashihiroshima, Japan, are arranged around a dirt floor, which is a modern interpretation of a traditional doma. More about Suppose Design Office creates 21st-century take on traditional Japanese doma
This year's Romanian Design Week featured a wide range of projects, from colourful book design to carefully crafted ceramics. Angel Trinidad picks eight of the best projects on show from local designers. More about Eight eye-catching projects by Bucharest-based designers on show at Romanian Design Week
We've created a new Pinterest board full of the best design related to skateboarding, featuring a ramp floating on a lake, IKEA's first skateboard and the recently installed bowl inside the Supreme store in Brooklyn. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Carter Williamson Architects has combined textured black surfaces with large panels of glazing to bring light into the previously dark interiors of this family home in Sydney, Australia. More about Carter Williamson Architects expand and brighten Sydney home
Architect and hotelier Matthew Goodwin has aimed to capture the spirit of California at this coastal hotel, which was transformed from a run-down motor lodge into a beach house. More about The Surfrider hotel in Malibu receives refresh from Matthew Goodwin
Colourful steel windows punctuate the brick facade of this home in São Paulo, recently completed by local firm Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos. More about Green steel accents define MMS House in São Paulo by Pascali Semerdjian
Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects has completed a single-storey extension to a Victorian house in north London, featuring a glazed wall and skylights that allow daylight to flood into a new kitchen and dining space. More about Glazed extension connects refurbished Highbury house with new patio garden
Copenhagen's showrooms threw open their doors last week for 3 Days of Design, with many brands announcing fresh reissues pulled from the Danish design archives. Rose Etherington picks 10 of the best midcentury pieces that are now back in production. More about 10 brands reviving designs from the Danish archives
This week on Dezeen, Zaha Hadid Architects caused a stir, as it revealed plans to build on the world's most expensive plot, and practice director Patrik Schumacher criticised the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about This week, Zaha Hadid Architects was back in the news
Interior designer Natalia Sanchéz wants to make the office feel as cosy as the home. To show how it can be done, she kitted out Copenhagen workspace Nomad with furniture by Danish design brand Muuto. More about Muuto furniture used to make Copenhagen co-working space more homely
So far, 2018 has been a bumper year for private houses completed in Mexico. Here's eight of our favourites, including a residence formed from a collection of black concrete cuboids and a colourful property designed as an homage to Luis Barragán. More about Eight of the best recently completed Mexican houses
Architecture firm Morphosis has revealed its design for a swooping, striated building that will house an art museum in Southern California. More about Morphosis unveils new home for Orange County Museum of Art in California
From a party bunkhouse to a hotel with a pool dropping to the ocean, we've rounded up 10 key projects by US architect Jim Olson, co-founder of Seattle architecture studio Olson Kundig, which feature in a new book celebrating 60 years of his work. More about 10 highlights from Jim Olson's six decades in architecture
In this competition, five Dezeen readers can win a signed copy of a book celebrating the "evolution" of US architect Jim Olson's buildings over his 60-year career. More about Competition: win a signed copy of Jim Olson's Building, Nature, Art book
A glucose-rich paper touted as an "energy drink for bees" could help prevent the endangered insects dying of exhaustion as they search for flowers. More about Bee Saving Paper could bring the bee population back from the brink
British artist Richard Woods has put one of his colourful bungalows in a roadside skip in London's Hoxton Square, in a bid to trigger discussion about gentrification during the London Festival of Architecture. More about Richard Woods dumps one of his cartoon houses in a London skip
There are 63 national pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. But if you don't have time to visit them all, here's our guide to the 10 best, selected by Dezeen editor Amy Frearson. More about 10 pavilions not to be missed at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
Users can "play God" on Tellart's Terraform Table – a sandpit imagined as a vast aerial landscape of mountains, valleys, lakes and rivers. More about Tellart creates topographic sandpit table that lets you move mountains
Architectural products are presented in a variety of ways inside the new Knauf showroom in London, which features in this movie produced by Dezeen during Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Knauf showcases its building products in new London showroom by Mailen Design