A 160-square-metre family home in Portugal completed on a shoestring budget is met with both high praise and doubt in this week's comments update. More about "Finally, a great-looking affordable housing solution"
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. More about Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA's homeless and disabled veterans
Dezeen has teamed up with Horizn Studios to offer our readers the chance to win one of six Model M Cabin Trollies – a suitcase with a built-in phone charger – in a colour of their choice. More about Competition: win a Smart Cabin Trolley designed by Horizn Studios
London studio Trevor Horne Architects has completed a gallery and apartment building on the site of the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, featuring folded brick walls topped with a glazed events space. More about Trevor Horne Architects completes 12-sided art gallery in south London park
With the 57th edition of the Venice Art Biennale now open to the public, managing editor Olivia Mull selects some of the best design-led exhibitions, spatial installations and pavilion takeovers. More about 12 must-see installations and exhibitions at the Venice Art Biennale 2017
Daan Roosegaarde has unveiled the next concept in his Smog Free Project – a bicycle that would inhale polluted air, clean it and release it around the cyclist. More about Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Bike would generate clean air as you pedal
Danish studio EFFEKT has developed a housing scheme for the Slovakian city of Bratislava, which features a dramatically staggered roofline intended to echo the peaks of a mountain range. More about EFFEKT proposes Bratislava housing scheme modelled on a mountain range
The Italian courts have sided with Molteni&C in a legal dispute against Cassina that saw both brands exhibit the same chair during Milan design week. More about Molteni&C wins legal battle to stop Cassina producing identical Gio Ponti chair
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Part-II architectural assistant to join London-based Paul Archer Design, which recently completed a house extension that paired board-marked concrete with glass. More ›
More about Job of the day: Part-II architectural assistant at Paul Archer Design
Brightly coloured niches define living spaces inside these three compact studio apartments, which Portuguese practice Waataa has created inside a former office building in Lisbon. More about Waataa transforms Lisbon offices into compact studio apartments with fold-out furniture
Visitors can pick their preferred sky colour and express reactions to a hamburger in this interactive exhibition, designed by New York studio PlayLab Inc for Brooklyn design venue A/D/O. More about PlayLab Inc's exhibition at A/D/O forces visitors to consider their preferences
An alliance of architecture pressure groups in America has launched JustDesign, a database of studios that treat their staff well and provide equal opportunities for women. More about New US initiative aims to spotlight architecture firms that treat workers fairly
Danish retailer Vipp has created a factory-made, metal-and-glass micro dwelling that comes filled with the company's line of homeware products. More about Vipp prefabricated cabins designed as "battery-charging stations for humans"
A+Awards: landscaped circles accommodate different activities at the centre of the redeveloped Navy Yards in Philadelphia, designed by James Corner Field Operations and a winner at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. More about James Corner Field Operations adds circular landscaping to Philadelphia Navy Yards Central Green
Models emerged from a forested mountainside at this year's Louis Vuitton resort show, which took place at the Miho Museum in Japan designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei. More about IM Pei's Miho Museum provides backdrop for Louis Vuitton resort 2018 show
Dezeen is giving away five copies of Building Community: New Apartment Architecture by Michael Webb, which charts the growth of terraced towers, social housing, luxury high-rises and other contemporary apartment buildings. More about Competition: win a book documenting the evolution of the modern apartment
Tbilisi-based, all-female studio Rooms is presenting patinated metal tables and sculptural black timber chairs at The Future Perfect gallery and furniture store in New York. More about Soviet architecture in Georgia and alchemy inform furniture collections by Rooms
Dezeen promotion: custom carved tiles are the specialty of new Swedish brand Tilemark, which has launched with a debut collection designed by Form Us With Love. More about New brand Tilemark launches with carved tile collection designed by Form Us With Love
Richard Rogers and David Chipperfield are among a group of eminent British architects who have demanded clarity on the status of EU nationals working in the UK following Brexit. More about Stop using EU nationals as a Brexit "negotiating chip", say Rogers and Chipperfield
Dutch designer Merel Bekking has presented Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs with a shiny plastic rotating chair after scanning his brain to establish his subconscious style preferences. More about Merel Bekking reveals "scientifically perfect" orange swivel chair for Dezeen's Marcus Fairs