The former Philips power plant in Eindhoven has been transformed into an innovation hub by young architect Janne van Berlo, in a renovation that celebrates the building's industrial features. More about Innovation Powerhouse is a creative hub in a former Eindhoven power station
The latest Dezeen competition offers five readers the chance to win one of these concrete vases and plant pots, which design studio Tiipoi has modelled on urban infrastructure in India. More about Competition: win a Siment vase modelled on India's brutalist architecture
Architect Guillem Carrera has completed an environmentally friendly elderly care home and day centre on a wedge-shaped plot in the Spanish village of Blancafort. More about Guillem Carrera's care home in northern Spain encourages residents to socialise
French architecture firm Titan has built a sand-coloured concrete pavilion to welcome visitors to the former home of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, in western France. More about Titan reinstates visitor centre at George Clemenceau's coastal home
The latest installment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a plan to build multi-storey housing with 3D-printers, a technique that the project's architects claim will enable people to design and build their own houses quickly and easily. More about 3D-printing could enable people to build their own houses "at the touch of a button"
Berlin-based designers Studio 7.5 collaborated with Parisian 3D printing experts XtreeE to create a series of continuously printed concrete benches with a woven pattern. More about Collection of benches woven in 3D-printed concrete
Argentinian firm Alarciaferrer Arquitectos has designed a house with exposed concrete walls, a sloping roof and an outdoor swimming pool in a rural part of the country. More about Alarciaferrer Arquitectos builds Casa MM within Argentinian nature preserve
A pierced concrete wall based on camera apertures fronts this photography studio in Forth Worth, Texas, by local firm Ibañez Shaw Architecture. More about Ibañez Shaw's Fort Worth Camera Studios feature details that allude to photography
Swiss studio Urben Seyboth has refurbished a mid-century house near Zurich, preserving original details such as the board-marked concrete facades but opening up the interior to create a sequence of brighter spaces. More about Urben Seyboth brightens up interior of Swiss village house from the 1960s
Architecture office Al-Jawad Pike used pigmented concrete blockwork for the exterior and interior of this two-storey extension to a Victorian house in south London. More about Al-Jawad Pike combines robust and affordable materials for extension to Peckham house
The roof of this concrete house, by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos, doubles as a lookout point for residents to take in views of Chile's coastline. More about Viewing platform tops Felipe Assadi's Casa Cipolla on Chilean coast
Concrete mixtures could be strengthened by adding nanoparticles extracted from carrots and other root vegetables, research currently underway at England's Lancaster University suggests. More about Carrots could be key to stronger concrete
London-based Henley Halebrown referenced both Georgian and modernist buildings when creating this Stirling Prize-shortlisted group of brick-clad student halls at the University of Roehampton's parkland campus. More about Henley Halebrown creates concrete-and-brick student halls for garden-like site
Swedish architecture studio Arklab has completed a pair of "sibling" houses in the German town of Heidelberg that feature unique angled forms to ensure they do not overlook one another. More about Arklab creates matching larch-clad houses with "the same DNA"
A lightweight concrete ceiling with formwork 3D-printed from sand is among the innovations to feature in an experimental robot-made house built by university ETH Zurich. More about ETH Zurich makes lightweight concrete ceiling using 3D sand-printing
Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil looked to the subdued paintings of artist Giorgio Morandi when creating the greyscale interiors of this restaurant in Seville. More about Pastel furnishings contrast against concrete walls in Seville's Casaplata restaurant
Designers Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and Oliver Sundquist have created a series of knobbly concrete vases that looks like lava rocks, for the new home of prolific Copenhagen restaurant Noma. More about Rock-like Mater vases feature inside Copenhagen restaurant Noma
Living spaces at this house in Waalre, the Netherlands, are contained within a cluster of concrete structures that incorporate large openings framing views of the surrounding forest. More about Russell Jones creates pared-back concrete house in a Dutch forest
Fuses Viader Arquitectes has transformed a 19th-century fortress near the Spanish city of Girona into a museum and hotel complex featuring concrete, glass and weathered-steel. More about Fuses Viader Arquitectes converts abandoned hilltop fortress into museum and hotel
A translucent concertinaed shell conceals the gridded concrete interior of this theatre designed by architects Smiljan Radić, Eduardo Castillo and Gabriela Medrano for the city of Concepción, Chile. More about Smiljan Radić uses lantern-like skin to disguise concrete frame of Teatro Regional del Bíobío