Seattle-based designer Katrina Spade has developed a building proposal that offers an eco-friendly alternative to burying or cremating loved ones. More about Katrina Spade's Urban Death Project proposes a composting facility for dead bodies
The director of the UK's Twentieth Century Society has urged prime minister David Cameron to ditch plans to demolish post-war housing estates or risk an architectural "tragedy". More about Demonising estates won't solve the UK's housing crisis, says heritage chief
Wooden walls integrate bookshelves, doorways, windows and a foldaway desk inside this family house in Geneva that has been renovated by local architect Aurélie Monet Kasisi (+ slideshow). More about Aurélie Monet Kasisi adds wooden walls with built-in storage to family home in Geneva
A fur-lined globe, a steam-emitting canoe and a transparent sauna are among the winning designs for a series of shelters to be erected on the edge of Toronto's frozen lakes (+ slideshow). More about Winter Stations proposals unveiled for Toronto's frozen beaches
UK prime minister David Cameron has revealed plans to bulldoze or overhaul 100 so-called "sink estates", blaming their design for fostering crime and poverty. More about David Cameron pledges to demolish UK's "brutal" council estates
Architecture firm Gensler has completed its Shanghai Tower, which is now China's tallest building and the second-tallest building in the world. More about World's second-tallest building completed in Shanghai
Following the death of legendary musician David Bowie, illustrators and graphic designers are posting their images interpreting his iconic style and flamboyant fashion. More about Illustrated tributes to David Bowie carry the news of musician's death
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled images detailing its design for a 25-storey residential tower in New York's Soho. More about Renzo Piano reveals designs for Soho Tower in New York
Gently undulating walls and a wavy roof enclose this family home in northern Belgium by Office O Architects, which projects two broad windows over a secluded garden to the rear (+ slideshow). More about Office O Architects uses "flowing lines" and projecting windows to create Villa MQ
This triangular structure by BTE Architecture provides an elevated viewing platform on the edge of Scotland's Loch Lomond (+ slideshow). More about Wedge-shaped viewpoint by BTE Architecture overlooks Loch Lomond
This two-bedroom family home in Japan is small but tall, so that residents can look out and see the foliage of neighbouring Japanese elm trees (+ slideshow). More about Compact wooden house by Takeru Shoji Architects stands alongside 200-year-old trees
Photo essay: photographer Raphael Olivier was drawn to the Chinese city of Ordos to capture "spectacular" architecture, but when he arrived he encountered a "ghost town" (+ slideshow). More about Ordos: A Failed Utopia photographed by Raphael Olivier
Marble bathrooms and simple furnishings complement period mouldings and restored wooden floorboards inside this waterfront Lisbon apartment recently renovated by local office Rar.Studio (+ slideshow). More about Rar.Studio adds marble bathrooms in renovation of 19th-century Lisbon apartment
The new digital art library designed by Buchanan Architecture at the Dallas Museum of Art features a reflective ceiling, as well as a translucent wall screening offices and study nooks (+ slideshow). More about New library at the Dallas Museum of Art features a mirrored ceiling and a translucent study room
Opinion: "intellectual vapidity and weasel-minded corporate ambition" are sucking the life out of architectural criticism. But there is still hope, says Catherine Slessor. More about "Cerebral, self-absorbed, tepid, dull and decorous"
A team of Illinois-based scientists have developed a form of "Martian concrete" that could be used to build architectural structures on the surface of the red planet. More about Scientists develop Martian concrete for building architecture in outer space
These four house-shaped volumes may look like individual homes but they actually define different areas of the same residence, designed by Shuhei Goto Architects in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture. More about Four gabled towers form House in Kosai by Shuhei Goto Architects
Rounded windows and skylights allow daylight to filter into this Parisian swimming pool by Mikou Studio, which features a grassy rooftop solarium (+ slideshow). More about Mikou Studio completes Paris swimming pool designed using Feng Shui philosophy
Dutch designer Merel Bekking is working on a design object based on the subconscious preferences of Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, whose brain she scanned last year (+ movie). More about Merel Bekking scans the brain of Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs to create his "perfect" design
In our second movie featuring an iconic Richard Sapper product, Alberto Alessi tells the story behind the late designer's 9091 harmonic whistling kettle (+ movie). More about Remembering Richard Sapper: 9091 kettle for Alessi