Countries in Europe's former Eastern Bloc are working out what to do with the architectural legacy of communism. Here, we round up six recent examples of adaptive reuse projects that have given buildings for the era a new lease of life. More about Six Soviet-era buildings given contemporary transformations
Mosaics and murals feature in this photography series of Soviet-era architecture from central Asia by photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. More about Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego photograph colourful Soviet architecture across central Asia
The geometric blocks of 1980s video game Tetris are replaced by Soviet-era apartment buildings in Tower Block Tetris, a mobile game by Lithuanian designer Lukas Valiauga. More about Modernist building blocks feature in Tetris-inspired mobile game
Tbilisi-based, all-female studio Rooms is presenting patinated metal tables and sculptural black timber chairs at The Future Perfect gallery and furniture store in New York. More about Soviet architecture in Georgia and alchemy inform furniture collections by Rooms
Six radical designs for the Moscow skyline – proposed in the wake of the October Revolution, but never built – are showcased in an exhibition opening today at London's Design Museum. More about Design Museum's Imagine Moscow exhibition explores six unbuilt Soviet landmarks
The architects of Belarusian office Studio 11 looked to their country's past when designing the offices for gaming company Vizor, combining Soviet-era details with bold red walls and modern lighting. More about Studio11 reinterprets Soviet-era architecture for gaming company offices in Minsk
German photographer Peter Ortner has spent seven years documenting 500 bus stops across former Soviet countries, including a triangular pavilion, a winged shelter and several colourful mosaic designs. More about Peter Ortner photographs 500 bus stops in former Soviet Union
This photographic series documents buildings in the former Eastern Bloc, with the intention to save them despite association with a totalitarian regime (+ slideshow). More about Socialist Modernism photography series by BACU aims to help preserve Eastern Bloc architecture
Opinion: a temporary installation around a plinth that once hosted an infamous statue of Lenin in Ukraine accidentally highlights a deeper problem facing the city than what to do with the relics of Soviet rule, finds Owen Hatherley. More about "Kyiv is a city where any and all public space is seized upon by parasitic capital"
The decaying architecture of the Soviet Union is the subject of an exhibition that opened this week at the Calvert 22 Foundation in London (+ slideshow). More about Dead Space and Ruins exhibition questions the future of Soviet architecture
Paris architecture office Dorell Ghotmeh Tane has created a new home for the Estonian National Museum – a 355-metre-long sloping glass building that rises from the runway of a former Soviet airbase near the city of Tartu (+ slideshow). More about Dorell Ghotmeh Tane's Estonian National Museum occupies site of former Soviet airbase
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a bright red model of the Slovak National Gallery forms the centrepiece of the Czech and Slovak Pavilion, which questions whether the countries' Soviet-era architecture should be saved or demolished. More about Czech and Slovak Pavilion explores whether Soviet-era architecture is worth saving
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have united for the first time at the Biennale to present the Baltic Pavilion, which explores the impact of redeveloping the region's Soviet-era infrastructure (+ slideshow). More about Venice Biennale's first Baltic States Pavilion investigates post-Soviet infrastructure
Ukrainian studio AKZ Architectura completely covered the interior of this vegetarian cafe in Kyiv with white tiles and installed a "jungle" in the toilets (+ slideshow). More about Orang+Utan vegetarian cafe features stark white tiling and neon signage
KAMP Arhitektid has installed angular wooden rooms and five metre-high trees inside a former factory in Estonia, to create an office modelled on a "bright summer forest". More about KAMP Arhitektid creates tree-filled office within former Soviet-era factory
Opinion: Stalinist Russia turned its military parades into architecture, creating a peculiar form of pomp that still resonates in modern Moscow and emphasises the city's inequalities, finds Owen Hatherley. More about "This spectacle of power was an inversion of the socialist city"
Opinion: an unloved relic of 1950s socialist Yugoslavia is one of the finest buildings of its era. But in modern Serbia, its overtly political message doesn't chime well with the prevailing ideology, says Owen Hatherley. More about "It's no surprise that the government were reluctant to let members of the public in"
Photo essay: German-Hungarian artist Katharina Roters has produced a series of photographs documenting the ornamental patterns added to standardised dwellings in Hungary as an expression of individuality (+ slideshow). More about Hungarian Cubes: the houses of post-war communism photographed by Katharina Roters
Photo essay: photographer Rebecca Litchfield has toured former Soviet countries to document the once-monumental structures around the Eastern Bloc that have fallen into decay. More about Abandoned Soviet architecture photographed by Rebecca Litchfield
Dezeen Wire: art and architecture critics have been offering their opinions on Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, an exhibition presenting the revolutionary imagery of communist Russia at the Royal Academy in London. More about Critics' reactions to Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935