New York practices Studio MRDO and Studio LaM have have won an ideas competition with their proposal for a theatrical underground pool set in the Demilitarised Zone between North Korea and South Korea. More about Studio MRDO and Studio LaM envision underground bathhouse between North and South Korea
Metal curtains can be drawn across the windows of this three-and-a-half-metre-wide house in Osaka by FujiwaraMuro Architects, which features a split-level layout with multiple staircases. More about Steel chain curtains cover skinny Osaka house by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Influenced by Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed leafy tower in Beirut, our featured Pinterest board this week is sowed with plant-covered buildings from around the world. It includes Studio 102's verdant office and showroom in Hanoi and a green Parisian apartment tower by Maison Edouard François. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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A pair of buildings with pitched roofs and white-washed exteriors form this home in rural Vermont by design-build studio Birdseye Design. More about Two white volumes frame central courtyard of Vermont home by Birdseye Design
Japanese studio Form designed this top-heavy home for a family in Tokyo, placing their living spaces in an elevated volume that overhangs a gallery for its apron-designer owner. More about Bright white living spaces overhang gallery in top-heavy Tokyo house by Form
Inbetween Architecture has renovated and extended a dated brown-brick property in Melbourne's Doncaster suburb to improve the quality of its living spaces and capture views of nearby Ruffey Lake. More about Inbetween Architecture transforms "terribly dated" 1970s Melbourne house to open up lake views
This house in San Francisco by local firm IwamotoScott has an angular facade made up of wooden elements, and a layout organised around a central staircase illuminated by a light well. More about IwamotoScott organises San Francisco home around light-filled stairwell
Building around a metal frame placed into ruins of a former engine room in the state of Yucatan, a team of Mexican architects have created a contemporary dining lounge. More about Metal beams frame restaurant inserted inside old Mexican textile factory
Architects Guillermo Hevia García and Nicolás Urzúa Soler have overhauled a school in central Chile, adding large skylights to an existing building and creating a new pavilion with a glass wall. More about Hevia García and Urzúa give Chilean school a new look with light chimneys and metal cladding
During the renovation of this Montreal home, local firm L McComber Architects reinterpreted its mock-Tudor facades with an expansion that echoes the architectural style. More about L McComber Architects gives contemporary update to Tudor-style home in Montreal
The plug should be pulled on the contentious Thomas Heatherwick-designed Garden Bridge, despite over £45 million of public money already bound up in the project, according to a new report. More about Garden Bridge should be ditched, finds financial inquiry
American studio TakaTina has created a stark family home on the outskirts of Tokyo, featuring bright white interiors inspired by the client's previous Brooklyn loft apartment and an inky black exterior. More about Black corrugated metal encases loft-inspired Tokyo house by TakaTina
British artist Grayson Perry is working with London-based architects Apparata on an affordable housing scheme with integrated studios for artists in Barking, east London. More about Grayson Perry and Apparata team up to create A House for Artists in east London
Limestone louvres and boxy windows cover the angled walls of this home outside Seoul, which was designed by local studio Poly.m.ur to house three generations of the same family. More about Stone fins cover slanted walls of mountainside house near Seoul
American firm goCstudio has created a small winery complex in rural Washington, with a subtle profile and earthy material palette that demonstrate the project's "reverence for the landscape". More about GoCstudio designs low-lying winery to blend with Washington's natural terrain
Architects SO-IL, Assemble and Carlo Ratti discuss the future of urban architecture at our first Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative talk in Milan. Tune in at 2pm UK time to watch it live. More about Watch our Dezeen x MINI Living talk with SO-IL, Assemble and Carlo Ratti live from Milan
Reclaimed brick walls help this home of modest proportions blend with its historic context in London's Clerkenwell, where it stands on top of a former 19th-century prison. More about Coffey Architects sets small brick home atop Victorian prison vaults in London
Slender metal columns support the offset concrete roof of this cylindrical office block designed by Local Architecture for the International Motorcycling Federation on the outskirts of Geneva. More about Cylindrical headquarters for motorcycling federation features dramatic sweeping staircase
US firm SHoP Architects has completed a pair of skyscrapers that feature copper cladding, bent silhouettes and a skybridge suspended more than 90 metres above the ground. More about SHoP completes "dancing" copper-clad luxury apartment towers in New York
New York firm SO-IL has built a prototype house at the MINI Living space in Milan, featuring a white mesh exterior designed to filter city air, and a plant-covered roof. More about SO-IL imagines a future of sustainable city living with air-filtering MINI Living house