For a site just outside of San Francisco, American studio Faulkner Architects has created a family residence clad in Corten steel panels and shaded by large oak trees. More about Faulkner Architects wraps Northern California home in weathering steel
A backpack radio station designed to warn remote communities of impending natural disasters and a bio-degradeable tower that harvests water from air are among the projects shortlisted in What Design Can Do's Climate Action Challenge. More about What Design Can Do reveals shortlist for Climate Action Challenge
Landscaped public gardens will surround a new glass residential tower by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, providing a new space for Stockholm's residents to relax and enjoy nature. More about Herzog & de Meuron reveals plans for tower set in landscaped gardens at Stockholm gasworks
Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include roles with Thomas Heatherwick's London studio, Rotterdam office KAAN Architecten and co-working company WeWork in San Francisco. More about Top five architecture and design jobs this week include Heatherwick Studio and WeWork
A frameless glass roof panel connects with a window to allow natural light to flood this extension added to the rear of a Victorian house in east London by The D*Haus Company. More about Giant pivoting door connects Columbia Road extension to secluded rear courtyard
Bringing back postmodernism, a style of architecture that thrived on irony, could be dangerous in today's political climate, argues Sean Griffiths. More about "Now is not the time to be indulging in postmodern revivalism"
Australian designer Tom Fereday has created a series of custom-made tables and chairs for the Louis Vuitton store inside Sydney's Bondi Junction shopping centre. More about Tom Fereday creates furniture collection for Louis Vuitton store in Sydney
South Korean studio Tectonics Lab has completed a house for a retired professor in Seoul, featuring pale brick facades interrupted by arching windows that frame views from rooms arranged around a skylit parlour. More about Arched openings punctuate brick-clad house in Seoul by Tectonics Lab
Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has found a new use for the micro house it designed earlier this year – the modular structure recently served as a temporary library in the grounds of Ljubljana Castle. More about OFIS Arhitekti uses modular Living Units to create pop-up library overlooking Ljubljana
The balcony play-area of this Osaka kindergarten by Hibinosekkei and Youji no Shiro provides children with an obstacle course of ramps, benches, monkey bars, and climbing nets around a tree. More about Climbing nets surround tree extending through balcony of Osaka nursery school
Design studio Davidpompa has carved rose-hued cantera stone mined in Mexico, and teamed it with copper to create this pair of wall and table lights. More about Davidpompa pairs pink volcanic rock and copper for Ambra lamp range
Interior architect Arjaan De Feyter has completed the renovation of an apartment built across four old silos in a former malting distillery in Belgium. More about Arjaan De Feyter creates round monochrome living spaces in former silo building near Antwerp
Portuguese office Rar.Studio has renovated an Álvaro Siza-designed apartment in Lisbon to create a brighter and more spacious interior. More about Rar.Studio renovates an apartment in Álvaro Siza's Terraços de Bragança
As Tokyo's first Designart festival draws to a close, our Pinterest board hones in on the most exciting architecture and design from the Japanese capital. The board includes YUUA Architects' 2.5-metre-wide house, KPF's futuristic 12.5-square-kilometre district and everything in between. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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The flat roof of this house in Austin by local firm Mell Lawrence Architects reaches well beyond its walls, shading the glazed top floor from the harsh Texan sun. More about Balcones House curbs Texas heat with expansive overhanging roof
Peruvian architecture firm Llama Urban Design has built a wooden house that connects two sides of a tree-covered valley in Ontario, forming a bridge over the ravine below. More about Bridgehouse by Llama Urban Design spans over Canadian forest floor
In a "Gordon Matta-Clark-like intervention", an oak tree trunk serves as a structural support for a house with a pentagonal plan in Ghent by local architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle. More about Atelier Vens Vanbelle builds pentagonal house around an oak tree trunk
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Shahar Livne has created a clay-like material using discarded plastic that could be mined by future civilisations. More about Shahar Livne uses waste plastic to create Lithoplast, a precious material of the future
This extension to a cottage in a Dublin suburb by Irish studio Arigho Larmour Wheeler features an asymmetric pyramidal roof, which is sliced off at the top to incorporate a roof light that illuminates an open-plan living area. More about Vaulted zinc roof tops extension to coastal house in Dublin by Arigho Larmour Wheeler
Saudi Arabia dominated the headlines this week, as the country became the first to recognise a humanoid robot as a citizen and announced plans to invest $500 billion into a city that will be run using artificial intelligence. More about This week, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot and unveiled plans for a fully autonomous city