Built in the wake of an earthquake, this secondary school in northern Thailand by Vin Varavarn Architects is raised above the ground on metal stilts (+ slideshow). More about Earthquake-resistant school in Thailand raised up on stilts by Vin Varavarn Architects
UK architect George King has used ultra-violet wool thread to produce an installation that appears to be formed by laser beams within an old train underpass in Detroit (+ slideshow). More about George King weaves UV string to create glowing maze-like installation in Detroit
Standard Studio has created a home for a family inside a former teachers' lounge – part of a wider conversion project by Casa Architecten that turned an early-20th-century school in Amsterdam into a series of apartments (+ slideshow). More about School teachers' lounge transformed into contemporary loft apartment by Standard Studio
Italian fashion house Fendi has moved into its new headquarters at Rome's Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana – a building commissioned by dictator Benito Mussolini in 1943 that has been renovated by local architect Marco Costanzi (+ slideshow). More about Fendi moves headquarters into iconic Mussolini-commissioned building
Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering original details like parquet flooring and adding contemporary lighting and black steel fittings (+ slideshow). More about IFUB installs bespoke black steel fittings in 1930s Art Deco apartment renovation
This restaurant and bar in the Azores comprises two buildings – a remodelled barn with volcanic stone walls, and a bulbous timber extension conceived as a cross between a whale and a wine barrel (+ slideshow). More about Cella Bar by FCC Arquitectura features a volcanic stone barn and a whale-inspired extension
A material made by mixing hemp with lime and water forms a new layer of insulation around this house in Belgium, as part of a renovation by Ghent studio Martens Van Caimere Architecten (+ slideshow). More about Hemp-based render gives striated skin to renovated house by Martens Van Caimere
These glass and timber holiday cabins by Norwegian architect Snorre Stinessen overhang the coastline of Norway's Manshausen Island, providing a base for Arctic Circle explorers (+ slideshow). More about Arctic exploration cabins by Snorre Stinessen cantilever over the Norwegian shoreline
Developers of Foster + Partners' luxury residential tower in Manhattan have released new images to tempt buyers into purchasing one of the multi-million dollar apartments (+ slideshow). More about New images released of Foster's super-skinny New York skyscraper
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Emmy Polkamp has created a concept for travelling hotel tents that can be used to create accommodation in abandoned structures (+ slideshow). More about Emmy Polkamp's To Many Places nomadic hotel can occupy empty buildings
NEXT Architects has completed its Batbridge in South Holland, which integrates spaces for bats to roost in during different seasons (+ slideshow). More about NEXT Architects completes bat-friendly bridge in the Netherlands
Designer Paul Cocksedge has unveiled photos that demonstrate the freezing techniques he used to seamlessly join metal furniture for a new gallery show opening in New York this week (+ slideshow). More about Paul Cocksedge freezes furniture together for Friedman Benda exhibition
David Chipperfield Architects has completed a series of stone apartments raised on plinths above the surface of a water garden in Hangzhou, eastern China (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield creates "village" of stone dwellings in Hangzhou marshland
Thick wooden ribs frame this extension to a family house in west London by architecture studio Tate Harmer (+ slideshow). More about Tate Harmer creates ribbed timber house extension in west London
French studios Caractère Spécial and Parisian studio NP2F Architectes have expanded the home of a circus arts centre in France's Champagne region and added a curving outdoor staircase (+ slideshow). More about Curving concrete staircase protrudes from warehouse-like circus school in France
Modelled on traditional wooden barns, this gabled house in the Slovakian town of Stara Lubovna has a pair of small wooden lofts squeezed beneath its pitched roof (+ slideshow). More about Martin Boles creates barn-inspired house with an extra floor slotted beneath its pitched roof
Coarse concrete walls encase this house by Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architetti, which overlooks Switzerland's Lake Maggiore from a wooded site sunken down below street level (+ slideshow). More about Lakeside home designed by Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architetti as "archaic stone block"
Architect Henry Goss has completed a rusted steel and timber-clad extension to a house near Cambridge, England, two years after Dezeen published the hyper-realistic renderings that changed his life (+ slideshow). More about Henry Goss completes house that launched his career as an architectural visualiser
This renovated Paris apartment for a fashion designer features a vertical herb garden, rainbow-striped flooring and a staircase with irregular alternating treads (+ slideshow). More about SABO Project transforms Paris apartment with multicoloured flooring and space-saving stairs
Dutch Design Week 2015: design firm Studio Drift has installed flower-like lamps, which randomly rise and fall as they "bloom", inside an empty Eindhoven factory (+ movie). More about Studio Drift installs moving Shylights in disused Eindhoven building