14 of the best contemporary beach houses and seaside holiday homes
Adidas unveils sports shoes made from recycled ocean waste
House and office complex by J Mayer H features monochrome facades and false shadows
Marjan van Aubel’s “stained glass window” harvests solar energy to charge mobile phones
Christiansen and Andersen create a pavilion of wooden walkways in Copenhagen castle grounds
MVRDV’s “office village” avoids business park cliches says Jacob van Rijs
Bone-conduction headphones allow cyclists to hear traffic noise while listening to music
“Designers are free from the rigid education of architects”
Nook Architects move into self-designed co-working space in Barcelona
Expanding torch for Rio 2016 Olympic Games unveiled
Matthew Lloyd builds decorative brick homes around a 19th-century London church
Humanoid columns support conceptual skyscrapers designed to never go out of style
Competition: five Rotterdam Architecture City books to be won
Expanding micro homes could move around on a network of railway tracks
Jules Ladoumègue Sports Centre features a facade of moving glass shutters
Wooden catwalk installed in conference room to encourage livelier presentations
David Adjaye designs new home for Harlem’s Studio Museum
Tokujin Yoshioka uses millions of straws to recreate Tornado installation in Japan
Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre
Snarkitecture fills Washington DC museum with nearly one million plastic balls
Beachfront facilities building by Link Architectes nestles into a slope near Saint-Étienne
Distillation apparatus forms centrepiece in Ciguë’s Aesop Nottingham store
Artek reintroduces coloured glass lampshades by Tapio Wirkkala