Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Gestalten to give five readers the chance to win a copy of a book exploring contemporary bathroom design in homes and hotels across the world. More about Competition: win a book documenting contemporary bathroom interiors
This public bathroom for a ranch in Mexico is built into the sloped terrain and covered by a prominent stepped roof, which is used for hosting events. More about RE+D embeds masonry-clad bathrooms into Mexican ranch hillside
Architecture studio Dieter Vander Velpen has employed a luxurious material palette of dark walnut, black granite and limestone to overhaul the kitchen and bathroom of a house in Belgium. More about Dieter Vander Velpen brings "understated luxury" to 1970s Belgian house
Studio 304 has added a glazed bathroom to a London flat, featuring a sunken bathtub that offers Japanese-style bathing to its occupants. More about Sunken washroom by Studio 304 allows residents to bathe in a garden setting
Although bathrooms tend to be the most minimal room in the house, we've rounded up 10 of the most extreme examples, including a lonely bathtub in a Dutch townhouse and a copper-lined washroom in an English countryside property. More about 10 minimalist bathrooms that have barely anything in them
This week we're counting down the most-pinned bathrooms on Dezeen, including a copper-clad washroom in the English countryside to a glass-walled room that looks onto an interior garden in Japan (+ slideshow). More about 10 of the most popular bathrooms on Dezeen's Pinterest boards
Sliding transparent partitions and a fold-out bench allow the bathroom within this Madrid apartment to become a communal area for all the family to relax (+ movie). More about Husos adds plant-filled "bathyard" to apartment in Madrid
Rotterdam studio Kraaijvanger has designed a modular kitchen and bathroom unit that can be inserted into an empty building to turn it into a residence (+ slideshow). More about Abandoned buildings can be converted into homes with modular kitchen and bathroom block
To create a feeling of zen in this Amsterdam hotel room, designer Hanna Maring added a Japanese wooden bathtub and semi-transparent screens designed to resemble the sky at different times of day (+ slideshow). More about Hanna Maring installs wooden bathtub and colourful screens inside Volkshotel suite
Paris studio Atelier 37.2 has added a multifaceted wooden volume to an apartment in the French capital to house two shower rooms. More about Atelier 37.2 installs sculptural wooden bathroom inside Haussmann-era apartment
A screen of hollow concrete bricks provides privacy for students using this shower and changing facility at a Shanghai technical college (+ slideshow). More about Hollow concrete blocks form a textured frontage for Wuyang Architecture's student shower block
Milan 2014: Marc Viardot of Swiss bathroom brand Laufen explains the concept behind two installations by Konstantin Grcic and Toan Nguyen, which showcased the company's new slimline SaphirKeramik product in Milan (+ movie). More about Bathrooms aren't getting bigger; good design is about "optimising the space"
News: the under-30s spend more time on the toilet than the over-55s – and they're checking social media rather than reading a book, according to new research on Europe's bathroom habits. More about Young people spend toilet time on Facebook, says bathrooms survey
After the popularity of our story on Nendo's bathroom for Bisazza Bagno this week, we've compiled over 100 covetable bathrooms from the pages of Dezeen in our latest Pinterest board.
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London architects Glowacka Rennie have completed the interior of the ladies toilets at the V&A museum in London.
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