Architects are beginning to rediscover the potential of handmade bricks, which offer wider variations of colour and texture than their industrially produced cousins. Recent examples include an asymmetric house in Belgium, a canal-side development in London and a housing complex in Rwanda. Explore more handmade brick architecture »
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Stone from a local quarry was used for the cladding, paving and retaining walls of this cluster of buildings by DVA Arhitekta, built on a sprawling site in Bosnia and Herzegovina (+ slideshow). More about Holiday "village" for an ex-footballer comprises seven cuboids with stone walls
Steel sections form triangular frames for mirrors and matching furniture at a minimal hairdressers in Zurich by local studio Raum404 (+ slideshow). More about Raum404 creates freestanding mirrors and furniture for Zurich hair salon
Brazilian studios BCMF and MACh have added a cantilevered bar and sunken gallery to a private residential complex on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which perches on a hillside overlooking the surrounding valleys (+ slideshow). More about Cantilevered concrete box houses poolside bar at weekend retreat in Belo Horizonte
Israeli illustrator Noma Bar has created a wooden pavilion shaped like a bird with a leafy back among the trees of a wood in central Japan (+ slideshow). More about Noma Bar's bird-shaped treehouse provides a vantage point over a Japanese woodland
Canadian studio YH2 has completed a series of cabin-inspired homes for a woodland development between the shores of Lac Supérieur and the Mont-Tremblant ski resort in Quebec (+ slideshow). More about YH2 reinterprets the Canadian log cabin for lakeside housing development in Quebec
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has released new images of its design for a six-storey building that will house the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners unveils design for International Spy Museum
Ren Pepe Arquitetos has converted part of a former bank in Porto into a dental surgery, featuring geometric patterns that reference the city's many tiled frontages (+ slideshow). More about Tile motif creates patterned interior for Porto dental clinic by Ren Pepe Arquitetos
Converse has redesigned its iconic canvas basketball shoe – the Chuck Taylor All Star – to appeal to a growing audience of non-sports-playing sneaker fans in the music, fashion, arts and design industries (+ slideshow). More about Converse unveils first redesign of classic Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers since the 1930s
Canadian architecture studio Scott & Scott used materials that "wear-in with use" for the interior of this pan-Asian restaurant in Vancouver (+ slideshow). More about Torafuku restaurant by Scott & Scott features utilitarian interior designed to get better with age
Broad white piers create a rhythm of regular openings around the facade of this small residence near Stockholm by architecture firm Hermansson Hiller Lundberg (+ slideshow). More about Hermansson Hiller Lundberg references Classical architecture with monochrome House Skuru
OMA has unveiled its design for a new sports and science facility at Brighton College, England – a historic school campus made up of buildings by George Gilbert Scott and Thomas Graham Jackson. More about OMA to create new sports and science facility at historic English college
Belgian duo Studio Job has patterned giant windows at the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires with coloured symbols and replicated the motifs on the floor of a roller disco inside (+ slideshow). More about Studio Job's Futopia Faena exhibition includes stained glass windows and a roller disco
This glass-fronted living room and surrounding garden have been added by New South Wales firm CO-AP on the rooftop of a house in Sydney's Darlinghurst (+ slideshow). More about CO-AP creates rooftop oasis for residents of a Sydney penthouse
Instead of applying coloured pigments to these vases, Scottish designer Dean Brown has placed the powder in glass tubes and suspended it away from the undecorated surfaces (+ slideshow). More about Glazing pigments and vases kept separate for A Matter of Colour exhibition
Architect Joris Verhoeven chose hand-moulded bricks for the walls of this asymmetric gabled house in the Dutch village of Riel (+ slideshow). More about House by Joris Verhoeven features handmade bricks and a lopsided roof
A plywood storage wall stores and displays furniture, ingredients and cooking apparatus at this Paris culinary workshop by architecture studio Septembre (+ slideshow). More about Tools and furniture hook onto a plywood wall in Paris cookery classroom by Septembre
Ian Anderson's Philadelphia-based ceramics studio has developed a collection of porcelain tableware by deforming traditional shapes, with the aim to increase, or at least maintain, the functionality of each piece (+ slideshow). More about Aandersson deconstructs archetypal vessels to create unusual ceramic shapes
Graduate shows 2015: traditional machiya houses in the Japanese city of Kyoto are under threat from modern development, so Royal College of Art graduate Adam Roberts proposes stacking them up to make them more cost and space efficient (+ slideshow). More about Adam Roberts proposes stacking traditional Kyoto dwellings to create "machiya towers"
This week we reported on the latest controversy to hit Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper (pictured) and Pharrell Williams and Zaha Hadid's collaboration for Adidas, and published the first piece in our summer-long series on Postmodernism. Click through for more of the biggest architecture, interiors and design stories from the past seven days. More about The biggest architecture and design stories on Dezeen this week