Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has used prefabricated elements to create a house with two stacked, perpendicular volumes clad with screens in Brasília. More about Bloco Arquitetos drapes screens over cantilevered steel house in Brazil
French-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque has completed an 85-metre-tall residential tower in São Paulo that offers its occupants indoor-outdoor living. More about Triptyque wraps Onze22 high-rise in Brazil with large balconies
Brazilian architect Marcelo Couto and landscape designer Rodrigo Oliveira have created a cantilevering house with multiple courtyards and an interior staircase with a slide attached in Fazenda da Grama, São Paulo. More about Cantilevered Serra Residence in Brazil includes stair-side slides
Brazilian artist Sallisa Rosa has installed a large-scale ceramic landscape with figurines and hanging orbs for Art Basel Miami Beach. More about Sallisa Rosa explores "erosion of memory" with ceramic landscape in Miami
Gut-renovating this São Paulo apartment has allowed Brazilian studio Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos to incorporate the personalities of it occupants, particularly in the bedrooms of the family's two children. More about Pascali Semerdjian creates Aurora Apartment to hold "two universes" in Brazil
Local architecture office Superlimão Studio has created a lifted building with a tree-like structure constructed using mass timber for a McDonald's restaurant in São Paulo. More about Superlimão uses mass timber for the "most sustainable McDonald's in Brazil"
Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. More about Studio KUNZ splits gabled Brazilian house into two trapezoidal forms
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an "elegant" rectangular house with circular garden terraces in São Paulo, Brazil. More about "Like a box of matches over gravel" says commenter
Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a rectangular house in São Paulo, Brazil that is set into a slope composed of round garden terraces. More about Denis Joelsons juxtaposes linear house with circular garden terraces in São Paulo
Local studio FGMF has used translucent screens and metallic panels to enclose a residence on a sloping site near São Paulo. More about FGMF covers Brazilian house in translucent shell
Italian studio Mixtura has created a convent in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil with multiple buildings arranged around open-air cloisters wrapped in a wooden brise soleil. More about Mixtura wraps multi-building Brazilian convent in wooden brise soleil
Local studio ARQBR has used concrete and wood for a round church in Brasilia, Brazil that lifts off the land with 360-degree, ground-level windows. More about ARQBR creates circular church with monumental steeple in Brasilia
Architect couple Leandro Garcia and Amanda Dalla-Bona have renovated a 1970s apartment in Curitiba, Brazil, for themselves, reconfiguring the layout and choosing eclectic furniture. More about Brazilian architects renovate Brigadeiro Apartment for themselves
Since February, searches for brick architecture have skyrocketed on Pinterest. The material is particularly popular in South America. We round up eight projects from the continent featured on our bricks board. More about Dezeen's Pinterest roundup features eight brick buildings in South America
São Paulo studio Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos has renovated an apartment in the city for a local family, utilising the furniture, cladding and exposed details to create social spaces that are "deeply Brazilian and vividly cosmopolitan". More about Pascali Semerdjian exposes concrete ceiling for São Paulo apartment overhaul
Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a renovation of a series of brick structures called Sítio Rio Acima near São Paulo, including a primary home with a vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window. More about Denis Joelsons deploys "series of punctual interventions" for renovated brick estate in Brazil
Local architecture studio FGMF Arquitetos has created a multi-use skyscraper in São Paulo named POD Pinheiros that includes an open-air central atrium. More about FGMF wraps São Paulo skyscraper around "internal semi-public square"
Brazilian developer Somauma has converted three floors in the Virginia Building in downtown São Paulo into an installation featuring the work of more than a hundred artists and designers for Design Week São Paulo. More about Artists and designers fill derelict São Paulo apartment building with installations
Local studio Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados has completed Platina 220, the tallest skyscraper in São Paulo, which has a central block flanked by three shorter volumes. More about Königsberger Vannucchi designs São Paulo's tallest skyscraper as "monolith"
Brazilian firm Studio MEMM has completed a pair of elevated, wood-clad structures that are meant to offer a "floating, magical space in the woods" for both kids and adults. More about Studio MEMM creates Tree House in Brazil to bring out "playful inner self"