Modular furniture, app-operated doors and a self-serve bar are among the experimental ideas being trialled at MM:NT, a mini-hotel in Berlin that will constantly evolve in response to feedback from guests. More about ACME and BWM design adaptable interiors for MM:NT apartment hotel
German studio Alexander Poetzsch Architekturen has converted a former chocolate factory in Dresden into a youth club and assisted living centre for children. More about Alexander Poetzsch Architekturen converts German chocolate factory into supported housing for children
Designer Werner Aisslinger has renovated a lakeside hotel in Germany's Sauerland region, adding hydroponics and locally sourced materials including wood and terrazzo to craft interiors informed by the surrounding nature. More about Studio Aisslinger completes "nature-loving" renovation of Hotel Seegarten
An exhibition at Hamburg's MK&G museum examines the global water crisis and what architects and designers can do to help. Here, curator Jane Withers selects five highlights from the show and explains the stories behind them. More about Jane Withers picks five projects that don't "take water for granted" from MK&G exhibition
A wooden structure will be left exposed throughout this children's daycare centre at the Technical University of Munich, on which Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has started construction in Germany. More about Work begins on timber daycare centre by Kéré Architecture in Munich
The steel-framed Study Pavilion by architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke has been named Europe's best new building, winning the Mies van der Rohe Award. More about Study Pavilion by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2024
A gridded timber frame creates a flexible armature for play equipment and social spaces at the Erlebnis-Hus visitor centre in Sankt Peter-Ording, Germany, which was designed by Holzer Kobler Architekturen. More about Erlebnis-Hus seaside visitor centre wrapped in timber grid to "play in, on, under or beside"
Danish architect Sigurd Larsen has refurbished the Michelberger Farm in Spreewald, Germany, creating a new wing of guest rooms that reinterprets the redbrick style of the 19th-century complex. More about Sigurd Larsen refurbishes 19th-century farm for Michelberger hotel
Local spruce wood is used throughout Markolfhalle Markelfingen, a multipurpose hall that architecture studio Steimle Architekten has added to the edge of a lake in Germany. More about Overhanging roof shelters wooden hall in Germany by Steimle Architekten
A former department store that became a famous artists' squat is now home to Fotografiska Berlin, a photography museum featuring interior design by German designer Werner Aisslinger. More about Studio Aisslinger transforms historic Berlin art squat into Fotografiska Berlin
Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. More about Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university
German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. More about Atelier ST completes Leipzig house disguised to look like two
A pared-back palette of raw materials creates a calm backdrop for PSLab's lighting products inside the brand's Berlin workshop and showroom space, designed in collaboration with Belgian firm B-bis architecten. More about PSLab's monochromatic Berlin showroom is a "sacred place for light"
Berlin studio Mono Architekten has combined a perforated concrete viewing tower with a car park topped by a public park to create a new entrance to the town of Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany. More about Mono Architekten tops perforated concrete car park with public plaza
A web of glass and carbon fibres envelops Texoversum, a university building for textiles that architecture studios Allmannwappner and Menges Scheffler Architekten have created in Germany. More about Robotically woven fibres wrap university building for textiles in Germany
Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled Haus 1, a bright yellow workplace adapted from a 1990s office building in Berlin with local studio Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. More about MVRDV completes yellow office retrofit with zigzagging outdoor staircase
French-Portuguese architect Didier Faustino has shrink-wrapped a series of wooden blocks to display paintings by the late artist Paula Rego as part of an exhibition in Hanover, Germany. More about Didier Faustino creates shrink-wrapped scenography for Paula Rego exhibition
Glass screen doors, bespoke furniture and natural textures draw on the waterside location of Locke at East Side Gallery hotel in Berlin by architecture studio Grzywinski+Pons. More about Grzywinski+Pons designs Locke at East Side Gallery to "capture the strange magic" of Berlin
Promotion: Austrian facade specialist Rieder worked with architecture studio Faerber to preserve the original structure of a townhouse through the installation of a three-dimensional concrete facade. More about German townhouse preserved with precast Rieder concrete facade
German practice De Winder Architekten has converted a former machine factory in Hamburg into offices for publisher Carlsen, retaining traces of its previous industrial use. More about De Winder Architekten retains industrial traces for offices in converted factory