Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five prints by UK designers Dorothy that feature bands and songs with colours in their names next to corresponding hues on the colour wheel (+ slideshow). More about Competition: five Colour of Popular Music and Song prints to give away
Chinese firm MAD has completed a pair of curvaceous twisted skyscrapers in the growing city of Mississauga, Canada (+ slideshow). More about Absolute Towers by MAD
Three Royal College of Art architecture graduates have used stripped scaffolding boards and reclaimed parquet flooring to create a wooden cafe at the school's Battersea campus in south London (+ slideshow). More about Royal College of Art Student Union Cafe by Weston Surman & Deane
A looping bridge by three Bosnian product design students has been completed outside the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo (+ slideshow). More about Festina Lente bridge by Adnan Alagić,Bojan Kanlić and Amila Hrustić
Eight architecture students from the University of Colorado have designed and built a cabin in the Utah desert for a Navajo woman (+ slideshow). More about Nakai House by University of Colorado students
News: a team made up of architecture firms OMA, Hassell and Populous has been selected to redevelop Sydney's convention, exhibition and entertainment precinct at Darling Harbour (+ slideshow). More about OMA, Hassell and Populous to redevelop Sydney's Darling Harbour
Cologne 2013: Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of furniture with components that look like they're peeled away from wooden stems (+ slideshow). More about Splinter by Nendo for Conde House
A small courtyard separates a design studio from an exhibition gallery at this former launderette that architecture collaborative MAIO has converted in Barcelona (+ slideshow). More about Studio renovation by MAIO
French architects JKA and design studio FUGA have converted a nineteenth century Alpine farmhouse in France into a holiday villa with chunky wooden cladding and cut-outs based on the shadows of other buildings (+ slideshow). More about Villa Solaire by JKA and FUGA
Latvian designer Anna Butele used fluorescent paint and marker pens to write inspirational messages across the walls at the new office of her interior design firm Annvil in Riga (+ slideshow). More about Annvil Office, Alberta Street, by Anna Butele
French studio Avenier & Cornejo Architectes has used strips of cedar cladding to wrap every surface of this house in Orsay, France (+ slideshow). More about Maison 2G by Avenier & Cornejo Architectes
Design Miami: New York studio Snarkitecture has hidden the Design Miami collectors fair behind a facade of inflatable sausages (+ slideshow). More about Drift by Snarkitecture
These plates made of tightly-packed soil were produced by Japanese design collective Bril (+ slideshow). More about Rammed Earthenware by Bril
Design Miami: London designer Asif Khan used Swarovski crystals to recreate an ice halo - an atmospheric effect most often seen in freezing northern climates - in this installation in the sub-tropical heat of Miami (+ slideshow). More about Parhelia by Asif Khan
These seven woodland cabins are nestled amongst the trees of a park and spa in northern Portugal (+ slideshow). More about Eco-Resort Pedras Salgadas by Luís Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar
Design Miami: inspired by Gaudí's ingenious method to create the perfect curve, Anglo-Dutch design duo Glithero have hung loops of beaded chain over a shallow pool of water in an installation for champagne house Perrier-Jouët (+ slideshow). More about Lost Time by Glithero for Perrier-Jouët
Slideshow feature: following the news that Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died aged 104, here's a look back at some of his best-known projects from around São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, documented by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok. More about Key projects by Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil photographed by Pedro Kok
Design Miami: a hanging cabinet covered in leather tassels and a hammock inspired by pasta ribbons are among the objects created by designers including Fernando and Humberto Campana and Atelier Oï for French fashion house Louis Vuitton (+ slideshow). More about Objets Nomades for Louis Vuitton
A 30-metre-long felled poplar tree protrudes either side of this kiosk by Swedish studio Visiondivision to support a row of playground swings at a country park in Indianapolis (+ slideshow). More about Chop Stick by Visiondivison
Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a swirling complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities on the abandoned site of an old textile factory in Belgrade, Serbia (+ slideshow). More about Beko Masterplan by Zaha Hadid Architects