Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Freja Bao has devised a masterplan for a new Chinese cultural capital that could help to change the country's political image. More about Bartlett student Freja Bao designs pilgrimage destination "to rebrand China"
A plan to build self-sufficient floating cities outside of national borders features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More about The Seasteading Institute's floating cities are designed for unregulated innovation
Design graduate Lena Saleh has created a set of objects for people to look at before they go to sleep instead of their smartphones. More about Future Sleep kit discourages people from looking at their phones before bed
Loughborough University graduate Tony Elkington has designed a desk accessory that warms or cools individual workers to avoid intra-office wars over the thermostat. More about Stratum desk mat warms or cools workers to their personal preference
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a construction architect at MVRDV in Rotterdam, which recently unveiled plans for a tower complex featuring spiky plant-covered roofs and greenhouses. More ›
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This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. More about Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings
The house by Ruud Visser Architects features a brick facade that looks like a huge letter A, while its rear is a three-storey wall of windows. More about Ruud Visser Architects completes house in Holland that looks like a giant A
London studio Feix & Merlin lowered the floors and raised the ceiling inside this former warehouse to transform it from a cramped apartment into a spacious open-plan residence. More about Feix & Merlin remodels warehouse home on the banks of London's River Thames
A library of parts could be used to create personalised self-build apartments, with this construction system designed by Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia as a solution to London's housing crisis. More about Bartlett graduate Julia Baltsavia designs construction system for modular housing based on I-beams
Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has added a Corten steel extension to the Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden, designed to open the building up to the adjacent sculpture park. More about Elding Oscarson creates "slightly bent" weathering steel extension to Lund's Skissernas Museum
Loughborough University graduate Benjamin Cullis Watson has designed a smell-free rubbish bin that can quickly compost waste from the kitchen. More about Taihi bin turns kitchen waste into plant food using Japanese fermentation method
With a new exhibition on at the V&A spotlighting plywood, we've updated an existing Pinterest board to show the how adaptable the material is, with projects including IKEA hacks, curvy roofs and stitched wooden furniture. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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This black woodland house by Robert Hutchison Architecture on the outskirts of Seattle is set around a gravelled courtyard, which provides its residents with a secluded outdoor space safe from roaming elk. More about Blackened wood house by Robert Hutchison provides retreat in Seattle forest
Local practice MNB Design Studio has refurbished an apartment in Hong Kong, adding a house-shaped wooden frame to section off the dining area. More about House-shaped frame encloses dining area in compact Hong Kong apartment
Architecture firm Arcgency has turned an industrial coal crane in a Copenhagen harbour into a luxury two-person retreat. More about Arcgency transforms former Copenhagen coal crane into private retreat
Another Country's adjustable Work Series furniture is designed to combat perceptions of the office as "cold and clinical". More about Another Country launches furniture designed to make offices feel more like home
One of the founders of 31/44 Architects has built his own London home, which is arranged around three courtyards to make it easy for domestic life to spill outdoors. More about 31/44 Architects builds grey-brick house around three small courtyards in London
This week on Dezeen, RIBA revealed the six projects shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize, while IKEA unveiled its new collaboration with Hay. More about This week, the Stirling Prize shortlist and IKEA's Hay collaboration were both revealed
The owner of a construction company in Houston has collaborated with Seattle architects Suyama Peterson Deguchi to create a Japanese-influenced home that she built for herself. More about Houston contractor builds her own charred-timber residence designed by Suyama Peterson Deguchi
This home at the foot of Wyoming's Teton Mountains by local architects Dynia is organised in relation to the scale of the surrounding landscape. More about Dynia completes house facing a Wyoming mountain range