Google's virtual reality painting app, Tilt Brush, could allow architects and designers to walk through their sketches in 3D as they draw them (+ movie). More about Google launches Tilt Brush app for virtual reality sketching
The late Zaha Hadid's first building in the Arab world, Iran's largest pedestrian bridge and a floating school in Nigeria are among the 19 projects competing to win $1 million in the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid among architects shortlisted for 2016 Aga Khan Award
Dezeen promotion: the winners of this year's A' Design Award and Competition include a pair of holiday homes, a wedge-shaped office block and a modular furniture system that can be rearranged for different uses (+ slideshow). More about A' Design Award and Competition announces 2016 winners
Milan 2016: Slovenian designer Dan Adlešič has updated his collection of toy-like electronics with a surface that trails light from a laser pen and a keyboard-activated lamp (+ movie). More about Dan Adlešič adds two lights to collection of playful electronics
Carbon fibre is architecture's biggest untapped resource according to architect and researcher Achim Menges, who claims that robots could be programmed to build stadium roofs using the fibrous building material. More about Carbon fibre and robots could create a "fourth industrial revolution" says expert
Four pebble-shaped volumes form this cultural centre completed by Bargone Architetti Associati on the stony shoreline of Lake Maggiore, Italy (+ slideshow). More about Lakeside theatre designed by Bargone Associati to look like huge rocks
Bands of shutters featuring a geometric perforated pattern appear to form seamless surfaces that extend across the facade of this house in Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More about Perforated shutters create geometric facade for Pitsou Kedem's house in Tel Aviv
Japanese footwear designer Roderick Pieters and fashion brand Proef have created pairs of easy-to-assemble shoes that are tied together instead of using glue (+ movie). More about Roderick Pieters' Loper shoes are assembled with rope rather than glue
This home and recording studio for a musician features overhanging roofs and perches on a rocky hillside overlooking a dam in a secret location in Africa (+ slideshow). More about Timber and granite residence by Studio Seilern stands on a rocky ledge above an African dam
This cabin perched on a hillside on Norway's west coast features modular rooms that extend outwards from the main structure to enhance views of the adjacent fjord (+ slideshow). More about Rever & Drage's holiday cabin features wooden pods that frame views of a Norwegian fjord
Photo essay: these images by Spanish photographer and artist Victor Enrich show Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum transported to a Colombian city neighbourhood suffering from an identity crisis (+ slideshow). More about Victor Enrich superimposes New York's Guggenheim onto a troubled Colombian suburb
Spanish studio Tatabi looked to ancient Greece to find influences for the branding and packaging design of a gourmet popcorn company (+ slideshow). More about Tatabi Studio designs marbled packaging for Diz-Diz microwave popcorn
Architecture studio Narch has renovated a Barcelona apartment, removing many of the internal walls to create a single space with a variety of patterned tile floors (+ slideshow). More about Narch creates a collage of decorative tiles by removing walls in a Barcelona apartment
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the biggest-ever retail department at London department store Selfridges, dedicated to women's underwear, sleepwear and sportswear (+ slideshow). More about Neri&Hu combines Japanese and Californian design for Selfridges' Body Studio
Architect Philipp Bretschneider has perched a garden viewpoint on a picturesque Mallorcan hillside, using the steel structure to frame views across the Mediterranean Sea (+ slideshow). More about Philipp Bretschneider's simple garden pavilion frames views over the Mediterranean
Milan 2016: Scottish designer Nick Ross researched Roman accounts of his country's indigenous Caledonian people and used the findings to create a collection of furniture and homeware (+ slideshow). More about Nick Ross' Last of the Free homeware is based on Roman histories of Scottish tribes
Plans to build a subterranean residence with a swimming pool for a roof were given the go-ahead this week, prompting us to pin wildly ambitious house designs – built or imagined – to a new Pinterest board.
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Möhring Architekten clad this holiday home in rural Germany in black-painted wood to look like a traditional barn, but then cut windows out of the corners to give it a contemporary edge (+ slideshow). More about House Wieckin by Möhring Architekten features black-painted walls and deep corner windows
Photo essay: keen to embark on career in architecture, young German student Paul Eis has been documenting the buildings of Berlin and Hamburg, but adapting them with bright colours (+ slideshow). More about Paul Eis uses Instagram to give German architecture a colourful makeover
Opinion: Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit hub may be Instagram-friendly, but it is part of a troubling trend for public spending on spaces that aren't really public at all, says Alan G Brake. More about "Calatrava's transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York"