Los Angeles studio Commune Design has used vibrant modernist furnishings to decorate the Ace Hotel in Chicago, in a nod to the city's architectural history. More about Ace Hotel Chicago features colourful mid-century-style interiors by Commune
The Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017 was awarded for the overhaul of the Harald Herlin Learning Centre, which was originally designed by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto, along with several other buildings on the campus. More about Alvar Aalto library renovation wins Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017
Marks Barfield Architects co-founder David Marks has died aged 64, following a long illness. More about Architect and London Eye entrepreneur David Marks dies
Chairs, tables and stools designed by Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo for the brand's stores are going on show at Galerie A1043 in Paris. More about Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons furniture to be exhibited in Paris
Solid wooden beams rest on top of dry-stone walls to support a balcony that cantilevers to shelter a parking spot for a DeLorean at this house designed by Hyde + Hyde for a site on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales. More about Silver House by Hyde + Hyde comprises pair of mono-pitched volumes perched on a stone plinth
A plaster made of sand and straw has been sprayed across the walls of this house, which was built in a village in Iran by local firm BAM Architects Office. More about Sprayed render covers walls of rural Iranian house by BAM Architects Office
Perched on the edge of a village by the Sea of Galilee in Israel, this house by Golany Architects features numerous balconies that can be shaded by rolling wooden screens. More about Slatted shades keep house by the Sea of Galilee cool during hot summer days
London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London's brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. More about Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children's bedroom into Barbican flat
This prototype house overlooking Lake Maggiore was designed by Nicole Lachelle and Christian Niessen to demonstrate the capabilities of prefabricated wood construction, and features charred-timber facades enclosing a bright-white interior. More about Prefabricated holiday home by Nicole Lachelle and Christian Niessen is clad in charred timber
Following the unveiling of the shortlist for the 2017 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards, we've created a Pinterest board of some of the most eye-catching architecture images on Dezeen, taken by photographers such as Rory Gardiner, Edmund Sumner and Iwan Baan. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest
More about Our new Pinterest board features impressive architectural photography
An app has launched that allows users to instantly identify artworks and access information about them, by simply scanning them with a smartphone. More about New app Smartify functions as "a Shazam for the art world"
This plant-covered extension to a bungalow in Miami is supported by a spiral concrete core that was precisely calibrated to match the sun's path at the height of summer. More about Christian Wassmann uses sun's path to shape Miami bungalow extension
Bay windows with colourful house-shaped frames extend from the front of this nursery school in the city of Sendai, which was designed by Tokyo-based architect Masahiko Fujimori. More about Colourful house-shaped boxes surround windows at nursery school in northern Japan
The "restrained opulence" of historic banks and treasuries informed the interior of this coffee shop in Sydney, designed by Studio Tate. More about Studio Tate references old treasuries with coffee shop for Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Simon Conder Associates has placed a prefabricated, black-stained timber extension on top of a former warehouse in east London, creating a new home for the designers whose studio occupies the old building. More about Black House is a duplex apartment above a converted Victorian warehouse in Hackney
Two high-profile project cancellations made the headlines this week as Thomas Heatherwick's New York Philharmonic concert hall overhaul and Atelier van Lieshout's controversial sculpture at Musée du Louvre were both dropped. More about This week, Atelier Van Lieshout and Thomas Heatherwick both had projects scrapped
For the music video accompanying her latest single, Björk worked with long-time collaborators Andrew Thomas Huang and James Merry to create her vision of utopia.
More about Prismatic visuals and floating beings feature in Björk's music video for The Gate
To build their own home in the Massachusetts town of Brookline, the principals of Spanish firm Ensamble Studio prefabricated individual parts of the structure in Madrid and sailed them across the Atlantic to be assembled on site. More about Parking garage extension forms home for architects Ensamble
New York studio Bureau V has attached a spiky-backed snug and a fabric-covered galley kitchen to a prototype micro home, which is on show in Brooklyn. More about Bureau V adds playful appendages to MINI Living Urban Cabin
Hidden openings, oversized portholes and apertures shaped like houses feature in this week's roundup of popular images from Pinterest, which showcases buildings that use windows as decoration. More about 10 buildings with windows that steal the limelight