Architect Jochen Specht has doubled the size of a 1960s house in rural Austria by encasing its stone walls behind a new facade made up of dark timber, concrete and plenty of windows (+ slideshow). More about Jochen Specht envelops a 1960s house in a new timber and concrete facade
Philippe Starck's aluminium Icon Chair for American furniture brand Emeco is today's offering in our A-Zdvent calendar for 2014. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Icon Chair by Philippe Starck
News: construction has begun on Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group's skyscraper at 15 Hudson Yards – the first residential tower in New York's new city quarter on stilts. More about First residential tower underway at Hudson Yards
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the next extract from our latest book, British designer Thomas Heatherwick discusses some of his studio's most high-profile projects including the UK Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 and updating London's iconic red buses. More about Thomas Heatherwick: "We don’t work in two dimensions"
An orange plastic tunnel forms a curvy seating area along the facade of this London office block – the first UK project from José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the architects of next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). More about SelgasCano completes Second Home workspace featuring an orange tunnel and a "flying table"
News: New York architect Steven Holl has seen off competition from 104 applicants including Zaha Hadid, OMA and Amanda Levete, to design a new wing for the Mumbai City Museum. More about Steven Holl to design new wing for Mumbai City Museum
Music: artist Chloe Early contrasts concrete urbanism with lush landscapes to create a coming of age story in her music video for the song Iris (Hold Me Close) – one of 11 that were premiered simultaneously for U2's latest album Songs of Innocence. More about Chloe Early's music video for U2 depicts one boy's journey into adulthood
Steel arcs curve across the glass facade of this Portuguese marina complex by local architects Barbosa & Guimarães (+ slideshow). More about Barbosa & Guimarães' Porto marina buildings are supported by curving arcs of steel
News: Zaha Hadid has hit back at the Japanese architects criticising her Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium design, describing them as "hypocrites". More about Zaha Hadid says Tokyo stadium criticism is "embarrassing" for Japanese architects
Dezeen promotion: Italian brand Ceramiche Refin has launched a porcelain tile collection based on the winning concept from its Create your Tile design competition. More about Ceramiche Refin launches porcelain tiles based on prehistoric fossils
News: not content with progress on Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge, London is planning a second new pedestrian bridge near the Battersea Power Station development. More about London launches design competition for another new Thames bridge
Eight glass-walled gardens offer views of greenery to the occupants of this minimally furnished house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, by architecture firm Goko (+ slideshow). More about Goko's House of Eight Gardens frames a variety of open-air courtyards
Next up in our alphabetical look at the history of chair design – the lightweight Handkerchief office chair designed by husband and wife team Massimo and Lella Vignelli in 1983. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Handkerchief chair by Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Hinged shutters fold up and down over the windows of this monochromatic care home near Paris by French studio Naud & Poux (+ slideshow). More about Concertina shutters shade the windows of Naud & Poux's Paris retirement home
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has redesigned Santa Monica's bus shelters by developing a modular kit of parts that can be used to build an assortment of round blue canopies, supported on slender poles (+ slideshow). More about LOHA's revamped Santa Monica bus shelters are blue discs on stilts
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Rianne Koens stacked sets of different-sized wooden boxes on top of angled legs to form these furniture pieces. More about Rianne Koens’ stackable drawers function as cabinets, tables and stools
Movie: architect David Mikhail explains how he transformed a typical 19th-century London house into a "great family home" with all of its "original dignity" in this movie produced by Living Projects. More about East London home by Mikhail Riches is "a big house that's been knitted back together"
The seventh entry in our A-Zdvent calendar is the Garden Egg chair by Hungarian designer Peter Ghyczy, which demonstrated new techniques for plastic production in the late 1960s. More about Dezeen's A-Zdvent calendar: Garden Egg chair by Peter Ghyczy
We've collected all kinds of residential conversions from the pages of Dezeen, from former warehouses and stables, to a transformed shophouse in Singapore and an old London post office, and added them to a new Pinterest board.
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This house in the English countryside by London firm Wilkinson King Architects features red cedar cladding and a folded roof designed to evoke the line of hills on the horizon (+ slideshow). More about Sussex House by Wilkinson King Architects boasts cedar-clad walls and a ridged roof