Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). More about BIG stacks shipping containers to create floating student housing in Copenhagen harbour
Four micro homes are mounted on the roof of a second-world-war bunker in this proposal by Froscen Architects for the Dutch city Leiden (+ slideshow). More about Tiny houses would be built atop an ex-military bunker in Froscen Architects proposal
Swiss architect Philippe Meyer has converted a former office building on the shore of Lake Geneva into a house with glass walls to provide expansive views of the surrounding scenery (+ slideshow). More about Villa Le Lac is a glass-walled house overlooking Lake Geneva
Architect Lucy Tauber has transformed a derelict post office in north London into an artisanal bakery with its kitchen on show. More about Lucy Tauber converts old London post office into light-filled bakery
Icelandic design studio Döðlur has paired 20th-century design pieces with custom-made furniture inside this hotel-cum-hostel on Reykjavík's waterfront. More about Döðlur converts 1940s warehouse into design hotel and hostel in Reykjavík
Architecture studio IFUB has transformed the second floor of an old chocolate factory in Berlin into an apartment featuring curved ceilings, exposed steelwork and big windows. More about IFUB creates loft apartment with vaulted ceilings in former Berlin chocolate factory
London studio Gort Scott has converted a rundown office block in London's Walthamstow into a hub for local creatives, featuring co-working spaces, maker studios and a bakery cafe (+ slideshow). More about Gort Scott transforms 1960s block in London to create co-working and maker spaces
A+Awards: another project lauded at this year's Architizer A+ Awards is this Mexican hacienda, where crumbling buildings were restored and connected with new elements by local studio AS Arquitectura to create a hotel (+ slideshow). More about AS Arquitectura turns dilapidated Mexican hacienda into characterful resort
Munich architecture firm IFUB has converted the ground floor of a Berlin factory into an open-plan office with a wall of hidden cupboards and rooms (+ slideshow). More about IFUB transforms former chocolate factory into office with secret storage
Soho House & Co's in-house design team and London architects Michaelis Boyd have overhauled a run-down farm in Oxfordshire to create Soho Farmhouse – a hotel that combines English countryside style with "upstate New York cabin culture" (+ slideshow). More about Soho House and Michaelis Boyd turn derelict farm into luxury members' hotel
Designer Armin Fischer has converted an old stone farmhouse in the Ibizan countryside into a rustic members-only retreat offering guests ritualistic activities like communal farming and meditation (+ slideshow). More about La Granja Ibiza is a members-only retreat with a rustic "back-to-basics" design
Chinese studio MAD has draped a "skin" of white asphalt shingles over the wooden structure of an old house in Japan's Aichi Prefecture to create a kindergarten with a curving roofline (+ slideshow). More about MAD transforms Japanese house into curvaceous kindergarten with a slide along one wall
The UK's iconic red phone boxes are being repurposed for a more contemporary telecommunications need: mobile handset repairs. More about Lovefone turns UK's disused telephone boxes into tiny repair shops
Canadian studio Appareil Architecture has converted an ageing Montreal industrial facility into a modern restaurant featuring a fire pit and original details, such as exposed concrete columns and red brick (+ slideshow). More about Appareil Architecture transforms old Montreal factory into contemporary restaurant
This garden pavilion by Abraham John Architects provides a lounge for a film production studio in Mumbai, featuring a glazed ceiling and walls to offer views of a jackfruit tree (+ slideshow). More about Abraham John Architects transforms pump room into garden lounge for Mumbai film studio
Jo Cowen Architects has converted a 19th-century bakery complex in south London into housing, featuring glazed brickwork, cast-iron columns and industrial-style glazing (+ slideshow). More about Jo Cowen Architects transforms Victorian bakery in London into 12 factory-inspired homes
Architect He Wei has transformed a traditional rammed-earth property in China into a youth hostel, featuring house-shaped polycarbonate rooms-on-wheels (+ slideshow). More about He Wei adds portable plastic rooms to youth hostel in a converted Chinese house
Grey-veined marble is paired with raw concrete and exposed pipework in this Barcelona apartment, in which architect Raúl Sánchez has used angled walls to create visual breaks in the layout. More about Raúl Sánchez uses angled walls to create blind spots in open-plan apartment in Barcelona
Office AIO has converted a courtyard residence in Beijing's Xiang'er Hutong into a tiny cork- and tile-lined coffee bar with a traditionally styled guest room (+ slideshow). More about Office AIO transforms Beijing hutong residence into coffee bar and guest room
New York firm Deborah Berke Partners has won a competition to transform a correctional facility into a permanent home for the girls' and women's rights movement in the city. More about Deborah Berke to turn former New York prison into women's rights headquarters