Dutch studio Bloot Architecture has added a larch-clad roof extension to a 1950s summer house, featuring a glazed wall angled to frame views of the trees overhead (+ slideshow). More about Woodland holiday home updated with rooftop extension facing up to the treetops
British inventor Clive Sinclair has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce an electric version of his lightweight foldable A-Bike, with wheels that are just 13 centimetres in diameter (+ slideshow). More about Clive Sinclair launches "world's lightest and most compact electric bike"
Seattle architect Tom Kundig has designed a collection of over 100 hardware items including drawer pulls, door handles, fire pokers and shovels. He spoke to Dezeen about his "modifiable, morphable" and growing product range (+ transcript + slideshow). More about I design products "sort of like Frankenstein" says Tom Kundig
This week Bjarke Ingels unveiled plans to enliven Battersea Power Station with electric sparks (after designing a power plant that blows smoke rings) while Henning Larsen completed a building with a moving facade.
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Hidden behind a bookcase in a secret room, a fireman's pole offers a fast escape route from the top floor of this Berlin home by local studio NOWlab (+ slideshow). More about Berlin apartment by NOWlab features a spiral staircase and a fireman's pole
These three zinc-cloaked towers form a power plant on the roof of an old beer brewery in Sydney, which will supply energy to a new housing and shopping complex on the site below (+ slideshow). More about Metal-clad power plant by Tzannes Associates is mounted on the roof of an old Sydney brewery
Henning Larsen Architects aimed to set a benchmark for green design with this university building in Kolding, Denmark, featuring a climate-responsive kinetic facade and a triangular form (+ slideshow). More about Henning Larsen's university building has a facade that moves in response to changing heat and light
Graduate shows 2015: Bartlett architecture graduate Lauren Fresle has envisioned a water city in Israel where Jewish and Muslim communities live peacefully together against a backdrop of huge stepwells and cisterns (+ slideshow). More about Oasis of Peace is a conceptual Israeli city that promotes peace through water management
Opinion: twisting slides, a hotel room shaped like a boat and a pop-up theatre are among the "fun" recent additions to London's Brutalist Southbank Centre. Has Owen Hatherley lost his sense of humour or is there something more sinister in all these layers of entertainment? More about "The real problem with all this Fun is that it isn't really very funny"
Architect Bjarke Ingels has unveiled plans to turn the chimneys at Battersea Power Station in London into giant sparking Tesla coils, powered by pedestrians passing through a public square beside the historic building. More about Bjarke Ingels could turn Battersea Power Station's chimneys into sparking Tesla coils
British designer Tom Dixon has unveiled a set of copper-covered items for brewing and serving coffee. More about Tom Dixon designs Brew coffee set of reflective copper products
Comments update: London is in danger of losing its creative class, according to former political advisor Rohan Silva, but could it be a good thing for the UK's creative sector? Read on for more on this and don't forget to explore our new comments page to keep up to date with the latest debates on Dezeen. More about "It would be a healthy thing for the UK if London lost its creative class"
This Victorian-era villa in Sydney has been renovated and extended to meet the needs of a family with an extensive art collection, while a concrete plunge pool caters for its grown-up children (+ slideshow). More about Smart Design Studio adds concrete extension and pool to dilapidated Sydney villa
Curtain-like walls can be drawn up to the ceiling of this luggage-sorting space in Rotterdam's port, minimising its impact on the 1940s cruise terminal building behind (+ movie). More about Pop Up Luggage Space by TomDavid has walls that recede like an "inverted umbrella"
Australian studio Project 12 Architecture has used plywood partitions and furnishings to reconfigure a converted warehouse in Melbourne and make more space for a growing family. More about Project 12 uses plywood joinery to create more rooms inside a Melbourne home
Students behind "the world's first solar-powered family car" have redesigned the vehicle to run for more than 1,000 kilometres on a single charge and produce enough excess energy to power a TV or washing machine (+ slideshow). More about Solar-powered family car designed to travel over 1,000 kilometres on a single charge
Marlene Uldschmidt's extension to an old farmhouse in Portugal's Algarve region features windows that cover entire walls and a paved rooftop promenade that affords views of the rural landscape (+ slideshow). More about Walkway extends over rooftop of Algarve farmhouse extension by Marlene Uldschmidt
Ennead Architects has been selected to design a research centre near Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, which will promote study and ecological tourism in the remote region (+ slideshow). More about Ennead Architects chosen for Chile's subantarctic research centre
Students and faculty members at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have designed a tiny house to help address the city's low-cost housing shortage. More about UCLA research lab unveils micro dwelling to help combat affordable housing crisis
Graduate shows 2015: airport runways are raised above the streets and waterways of a new Stockholm city district in this conceptual proposal by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Alex Sutton (+ slideshow). More about Stockholm airport proposal elevates runways among city rooftops