Plywood furniture “islands” are used to customise public housing in Japan
Penang government seeks architects and master planners to design man-made islands
London cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows
Waechter Architecture builds ring of cabins on old school campus to create The Society Hotel Bingen
Madeline Hall reinterprets religious imagery as “psychedelic” ceramic sculptures
See interior makeovers of Barbican flats on our new Pinterest board
Architecture Office’s co-working space in Syracuse “reinvigorates the notion of a cubicle”
Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandao Middle School in China
Ecosystem Kickstarter is a cardboard structure that fights soil erosion
Metal grates form walls and railings inside Montreal apartment Aluminum Scarf
Euroboden reveals design of “brutalist” Hammerschmidt office in Munich
T Sakhi’s Lebanon pavilion uses walls to activate social interaction
Dosist sets out to redefine edible cannabis products with Dose Dial
Top opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions at Ström Architects and David Chipperfield Architects
The Future Perfect celebrates “radical, feckless” ceramics in Mess exhibition
Vo Trong Nghia plants fruit trees on the roof of a house in Vietnam
Moroccan carpets line walls of Warsaw’s Aura cocktail bar
Daniel Moreno Flores creates hanging-tile screen as entrance to illustrator’s home near Quito
Casa Almudena designed by Jesús Perales to bring a family closer together
This week, the UK’s best new house was revealed and the MPavilion opened in Australia
Steven Holl dismisses concerns over new Long Island City library as “wrinkles”
RDHA turns riverfront building into “Canada’s first bookless library”
Nicholas Grimshaw maintained his high-tech ideals for 50 years
