A bright orange wall screens a staircase that leads to a bathroom on top of this concrete house in Tokyo by Takuro Yamamoto Architects (+ slideshow). More about Concrete home by Takuro Yamamoto Architects overlooks an allotment and woods near Tokyo
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: An installation by the German firm Kuehn Malvezzi portrays its design for a religious building in Berlin that would contain a synagogue, church and mosque – all under one roof. More about Kuehn Malvezzi's House of One installation represents a house of prayer for three religions
London firm Jump Studios has renovated a 19th-century battery factory in Madrid to create the sixth Google Campus – a co-working space for entrepreneurs and start-up companies. More about Jump Studios completes Google co-working space in former Madrid battery factory
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan Buijs has designed a sex toy with a bright pink torso that can be mounted like a vaulting horse. More about Bastiaan Buijs' Satyr sex toy for men is a fleshlight-cum-furniture piece
Architects Elisabeth Scott and Giles Gilbert Scott are among notables included on the pages of the latest British passport, designed to celebrate the UK's creative and cultural contributions to the world (+ slideshow). More about UK creatives feature in updated British passport design
Comments update: the use of taxidermy in design was thrust into the spotlight this week after we re-posted a 2010 project by BrewDog to our Instagram account as part of a Halloween-themed weekend of content. The controversial post attracted over 600 comments, sparking a debate about the use of dead animals in the creation of decorative objects. More about "Talk about social roadkill"
In the space of three years, Dubai has started two annual trade fairs, opened a dedicated design district and hosted its inaugural design week. Dezeen investigates how and why the city is trying to become a global design centre. More about "Long journey" ahead for Dubai's growing design scene
Dezeen promotion: Spanish design brand Sancal has released the latest piece from its Majestic Collection: a sofa with deep seats and configurable elements (+ slideshow). More about Sancal launches Tiptoe sofa as part of Majestic Collection
New York studio Bureau V has transformed a brick industrial building into a musical venue, with an auditorium featuring white walls criss-crossed by black stripes (+ slideshow). More about Bureau V converts an old Brooklyn sawdust factory into a concert hall
Bangkok-based architect Jun Sekino designed these elevated classrooms in northern Thailand in response to a severe earthquake, which destroyed the school's original building (+ slideshow). More about Jun Sekino replaces earthquake-damaged school in Thailand with stilted classrooms
London studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won a bid to design a new terminal for Taiwan's largest airport, seeing off competition from Foster + Partners and UN Studio (+ movie). More about Richard Rogers wins Taiwan Taoyuan airport terminal competition
Swiss architecture firm Bureau A has created Steelhenge: a recreation of the prehistoric English stone circle built from 50 shipping containers. More about Bureau A recreates Stonehenge using shipping containers
Chilean architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen are presenting a concept for a megastructure built from 100 overlapping circular enclosures, as part of an exhibition in the Czech Republic (+ slideshow). More about Pezo von Ellrichshausen designs a building made up of 100 circles
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sarah Daher has proposed harnessing airborne molecules released by plants to create pockets of personalised air that could provide health benefits when inhaled (+ slideshow). More about Sarah Daher designs Air Culture concept plant lab to deliver enriched air
Argentinian studio It Met used corrugated plastic and sheets of wood to partition the workspaces of this advertising agency in Buenos Aires. More about It Met uses modular panels to create flexible workspace for Buenos Aires ad agency
New York-based designer Marc Fornes has completed an outdoor installation for a French school, consisting of perforated aluminium plates that cast patterned shadows on the ground below (+ slideshow). More about Marc Fornes creates sculptural installation in France using perforated metal shingles
Renzo Piano Building Workshop is set to begin work on a glass-sheathed tower in Miami Beach that will be the firm's first residential project in the USA (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano unveils plans for glass tower on Miami Beach
Visitors to an English forest were able to explore the woods through the eyes of different animals as part of a virtual reality experience by London design studio Marshmallow Laser Feast (+ movie). More about Virtual reality helmets present a forest from an animal's perspective
Icehotel has announced plans to build a permanent hotel alongside its seasonal frozen lodgings within the Arctic Circle, in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden (+ slideshow). More about Sweden's Icehotel set to welcome guests all year round with permanent building
German sports brand Adidas has unveiled the first image of its lace-free football boots, which are due to be released in 2016. More about Adidas to release laceless knitted football boots in 2016