Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: one of the grandest installations created for the Venice biennale is a grid of seven-metre-high golden columns by German artist Heinz Mack (+ slideshow). More about Heinz Mack installs towering golden columns on a Venetian island
The front wall of this small white house in Japan appears to have been folded down like the corner of a piece of paper (+ slideshow). More about Folded facade gives a paper-like weight to Yukio Hashimoto's F-House
The second recent project from Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects is this renovation of a garment factory in Ho Chi Minh City that now features a hanging bamboo ceiling concealing mechanical equipment (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects adds brick and bamboo to Vietnam factory interior
Reflective stainless steel surfaces and a polished concrete floor brighten the interior of this extension to a terraced house in the Islington area of London by Architecture for London (+ slideshow). More about Architecture for London creates light-filled London extension using polished materials
Japanese studio Nendo's latest accessory design is the first from a collection of minimal watches with graphics taken from a draughtsman's tools (+ slideshow). More about Scale watches by Nendo mark the time with ruler increments
Northern Ireland studio McGarry-Moon Architects has inserted a contemporary living space into this stone barn, which has been long-listed for the Royal Institute of British Architects' 2014 Manser Medal for best British house (+ slideshow). More about McGarry-Moon updates a traditional stone barn with a steel-framed living space
Interview: millionaire businesswoman Zita Cobb has used cutting-edge architecture and design to revitalise the economy of remote Fogo Island in Newfoundland, the place of her birth. She told Dezeen how she got international designers to work with local craftspeople "to preserve some of the things we were afraid of losing" (+ slideshow). More about Fogo Island projects were "an opportunity to use architecture to preserve tradition"
Belgian studios Wil-Ma and Wastiau have collaborated on the design of an office building in Westerlo, near Antwerp, which looks like a house raised on angled stilts (+ slideshow). More about Brick office by Wil-Ma and Wastiau is raised on angled stilts to protect it from flooding
Exposed brickwork and ceilings, themed rooms and a dedicated recording studio feature in the headquarters of audio platform Soundcloud, which have been created inside a former brewery in Berlin (+ slideshow). More about Kinzo converts three floors of former Berlin brewery into headquarters for Soundcloud
Tens of thousands of recycled plastic bottles combined to create this cloud-shaped pavilion by Brooklyn architecture and design firm StudioKCA, which has been named one of the winners of the American Institute of Architects' Small Projects Awards. More about Pavilion made from 53,780 plastic bottles among AIA Small Projects winners
New York product design studio Visibility has unveiled prototypes for its first homeware collection, which includes a series of slip-cast porcelain kitchen tools with built-in ridges for grating, grinding and gripping food (+ slideshow). More about Visibility uses porcelain to create kitchen tools in first homeware collection
UK office Invisible Studio has built a workshop for itself near Bath using reclaimed materials and timber from the surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). More about Invisible Studio builds workshop on stilts using trees from surrounding woodland
A small wooden cabin with louvred brass windows occupies the centre of this Isabel Marant fashion boutique in Shanghai, designed by Ciguë to reference the traditional houses that once populated the site (+ slideshow). More about Ciguë builds a wooden cabin in the middle of Isabel Marant's Shanghai boutique
Measuring just four metres wide, this glass and concrete cultural building has been inserted between an industrial district and a historic 17th century house in Incheon, South Korea (+ slideshow). More about Sinjinmal Building by Studio GAON occupies its site like "a book in an empty shelf"
London-based designers Bartek Arendt and Kasia Bedra have built a barn-inspired house in Poland with a sloping triangular roof, designed to stand as an abstract object in the landscape (+ slideshow). More about Polish house offers an abstract take on a traditional barn
Artist Carsten Höller has erected a cross between a viewing tower and a helter skelter at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany (+ slideshow). More about Carsten Höller builds a tower with a slide at the Vitra campus
Japanese studio Sabaoarch has built a concrete house with tiny windows on a narrow strip of land in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Sabaoarch build three-metre-wide concrete house in Tokyo
Milan Expo 2105: wavy timber louvers will flank Azerbaijan's pavilion designed by Simmetrico Network, Arassociati architects and landscape architects AG&P for next year's World Expo in Milan. More about Glass globes and wavy wooden walls feature in Azerbaijan's Milan Expo pavilion
Trees grow on top of five concrete boxes, like oversized pot plants, at this house in Ho Chi Minh City by Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). More about Rooftops of Vo Trong Nghia Architects' House for Trees covered in greenery
Used carpet tiles clad walls that are insulated with junk, including floppy discs and toothbrushes, in this building designed by East Sussex studio BBM as a research facility and design workshop for the University of Brighton's Faculty of Arts. More about Waste House by BBM is "UK's first permanent building made from rubbish"