From opulent royal foot apparel to dangerously high stilettos, a new exhibition at London's V&A museum explores the "human obsession with shoes" over 2,000 years (+ slideshow). More about V&A presents extreme footwear in Shoes: Pleasure and Pain exhibition
Vibrant green-yellow frames accentuate the windows and doors of this spruce-clad house built on a hillside with views over Oslo (+ slideshow). More about Timber-clad home by Schjelderup Trondahl sits on a hill overlooking Oslo
Couples with a love of stained glass can now get married in a kaleidoscopic wedding chapel next to a Shanghai glass museum (+ slideshow). More about Rainbow Chapel by Coordination Asia is a multi-coloured wedding venue in Shanghai
Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has curated an apartment inside an old industrial building in Turin, Italy, bringing together various designs to create the "open-source connected home of the future" (+ slideshow). More about Casa Jasmina combines Italian design with connected home technologies
Thin blue strings are stretched between arch-shaped frames to create tunnels across the cloister garden of a French cathedral (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Yokyok installs vaulted string tunnels in a Gothic cloister garden
Dezeen promotion: UK materials brand DuPont has renewed and extended its range of Corian bathroom basins, and photographed them in styled environments for a new publication titled Portraits of Life (+ slideshow). More about DuPont updates collection of Corian bathroom basins
Rectangular panels of Japanese cedar and glass create a chequered effect on the facade of this Tokyo residence (+ slideshow). More about Glass and timber rectangles create chequered facade for Tokyo house by Takeshi Shikauchi
The timber frame and paper panes of the traditional Korean door were replaced with a resin grid and flexible silicone for this installation at a Seoul gallery (+ slideshow). More about Nameless Architecture reinterprets the traditional Korean door using resin and silicone
Architecture studio Piercy & Company has resurrected a fire-ravaged building as offices in London's Shoreditch, reinstating the ornate facade at the front and adding a faceted brass structure at the rear (+ slideshow). More about Shoreditch office by Piercy & Company has a restored facade and a golden behind
Sections of Renaissance paintings are mounted onto angular planters across the colourful temporary landscape installed at a Bergamo gallery by Studio Fink (+ slideshow). More about Studio Fink covers Italian art museum courtyard with brightly coloured astroturf
The roof of this Stockholm house by Streetmonkey Architects turns into a ramp for children to sled on when it snows (+ slideshow). More about Pulkabacken house has a sloping roof that doubles as a sledding hill
UK studio London Atelier has updated the interior of a dilapidated terraced property, adding a new staircase, and a folding ladder for access to the roof (+ slideshow). More about London Atelier reorganises Victorian house to create multi-level apartment
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has filled the Hayward Gallery and terraces on London's South Bank with interactive installations, including a pair of spiral slides (+ slideshow). More about Carsten Höller transforms London's South Bank into a playground
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble has teamed up with British artist Simon Terrill to create full-size foam replicas of playground designs from architecture's Brutalist era (+ slideshow). More about Assemble's Brutalist Playground is a climbable landscape of ice-cream-coloured shapes
BIG has unveiled designs for Two World Trade Center, confirming that the skyscraper's original architect, Foster + Partners, has been ousted (+ slideshow). More about BIG unveils replacement for Foster's Two World Trade Center design
Two house-shaped rooms project out from the facade of this three-storey residence by SoNo Arhitekti, which nestles into a hillside near an Austrian Alpine village (+ slideshow). More about Mountain View House nestles against a hillside in the Austrian Alps
The trio of stacked blocks that make up this Virginia residence by Höweler + Yoon Architecture are arranged in a bridge-like formation, providing three generations of a family with separate living spaces (+ slideshow). More about Höweler + Yoon's Bridge House accommodates three generations of a family
Graduate shows 2015: intended to promote eating humans, the Guide to Cannibalism provides recipes for cooking meat, and also comes with kitchenware embedded with real hair (+ slideshow). More about Guide to Cannibalism suggests ways to eat humans
Prefabricated modules of cross-laminated timber were "plugged in like Lego pieces" to build this eight-storey apartment block in Finland – one of the first examples of its type in the world (+ slideshow). More about OOPEAA completes Finland's first high-rise wooden apartment building
Architecture studio Overland Partners has transformed an old warehouse to create itself a new studio and office building in the heart of the arts district of San Antonio, Texas (+ slideshow). More about Overland Partners transforms a San Antonio warehouse into a lofty studio