Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has converted buildings in a former industrial district into a public library in Chicago, where original brick walls and bow trusses are on full display. More about SOM transforms ageing brick buildings into Chicago's West Loop Branch library
Charleston interiors firm Basic Projects has created cosy apartment-like suites inside a refurbished brick building, during its conversion into a hotel in nearby Savannah. More about Basic Projects and Christian Sottile include "creature comforts" at Savannah's Windrose hotel
A black geometric volume evocative of a ship defines these spacious offices for Sidewalk Labs in Toronto, where the Google-owned company is planning an ambitious "future city" neighbourhood. More about Sidewalk Labs Toronto offices occupy fishery renovated by Lebel & Bouliane
Huge elevated boxes creates private tearooms inside this cafe in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by locally based studio Linehouse. More about Linehouse adds elevated tearooms in a warehouse for Tingtai Teahouse in Shanghai
A swinging chaise and a hidden salon are among features in this tech company headquarters, housed inside a century-old bank in Portland, Oregon. More about ZGF Architects transforms historic Portland bank building into Expensify office
A neglected barn made from plaster-coated river pebbles on the outskirts of Verona has been transformed into a new country home by Milan-based Studio Wok. More about Studio Wok inserts home into stone barn in the Italian countryside
Canadian firm Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes has rehabilitated a planetarium in Montreal into an incubator for entrepreneurship and technology, and retaining its viewing area. More about Dow Planetarium revitalised as Centech incubator in Montreal
Hotelier Valeri Chekheria explains how his team transformed the headquarters of a Soviet printing press in Tbilisi into the Stamba Hotel in this movie Dezeen produced for the AHEAD hospitality awards. More about Soviet publishing house in Tbilisi transformed into Stamba Hotel
American studio ZGF Architects has transformed the interior of a 1940s hangar in Los Angeles into a Google office, featuring open workspaces, elevated walkways and exposed timber beams. More about ZGF converts historic LA airplane hangar into Google Spruce Goose office
The inaugural Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, in the UAE emirate of Sharjah, shows how the region can rethink its approach to adaptive reuse of buildings. More about Fikra Graphic Design Biennial "sets a precedent" for adaptive reuse in UAE
A concrete structure that was built as a bomb-proof fuel pumping station during world war two in Dungeness, England, has been transformed into a holiday home by UK-based interior architecture studio Johnson Naylor. More about Johnson Naylor converts world war two pumping station into holiday home on Dungeness beach
London-based architecture studio Hawkins\Brown has added a brick extension to a 19th century warehouse to create an office block at 53 Great Suffolk Street in Southwark, London. More about Hawkins\Brown's office extension mirrors Victorian brick warehouse
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has turned an old brick building in Chicago into an architecture-focused exhibition centre. More about Tadao Ando designs Wrightwood 659 exhibition space in Chicago
Studio Joanna Laajisto has created an office for a Finnish advertising agency inside a bread factory with six-metre-high ceilings, in Helsinki. More about Studio Joanna Laajisto transforms Helsinki bread factory into Bob the Robot's office
An Ottoman-era home in Jaffa has been refurbished as a spa, where Japanese elements sit alongside original Arabic details like arched ceilings and stone walls. More about Yoko Kitahara spa blends Japanese and Arabic designs in Jaffa
Ministry of Sound has teamed up with architecture studio Squire and Partners to create a co-working space and private members lounge in southeast London, just around the corner from the infamous nightclub's home. More about Ministry of Sound opens co-working space in revamped 19th-century printworks
A former house in Beijing's old town is transformed into a specialist fan shop with a minimalist oak-lined interior, in this project by Golucci Interior Architects. More about Golucci Interior Architects creates "simple and clean" fan shop in Beijing hutong
Dezeen promotion: a centre for culture and innovation inside a former industrial building in High Point has welcomed the first visitors to look around its spaces, including a design store curated by Dezeen. More about Plant Seven creative hub opens in North Carolina textile mill
Berlin-based design studio New Tendency has updated a GDR era broadcast building to create a temporary workspace for participants enrolled in Red Bull's music academy scheme. More about New Tendency overhauls East German radio centre to create Red Bull music studios
This huge industrial building in San Francisco now functions as office space for an HR software company, where employees are encouraged to take off their shoes. More about Vast warehouse at San Francisco's Pier 70 becomes Gusto headquarters