A wooden floor that curves up to become a wall allows light and air to flow through this bathhouse by Japanese studio Kubo Tsushima Architects. More about Kubo Tsushima Architects creates curved cedar interior inside Japanese bathhouse
Guests at this hotel near the Spanish city of Alicante stay in prefabricated cabins, which are raised off the ground to reduce their impact on the rugged landscape and enable views over the adjacent valley (+ slideshow). More about Glass-walled boxes on stilts accommodate guests at Daniel Mayo's Vivood hotel
Beijing architect Cao Pu has created a compact hostel in a traditional hutong courtyard that gets even smaller when its front wall is rolled back to provide extra external space (+ slideshow). More about Archicao's tiny Humble Hostel expands and contracts with a rolling facade
Interview: hotelier, restauranteur and developer André Balazs is the man behind The Standard in New York, Chateau Marmont in Hollywood and Chiltern Firehouse in London. He told Dezeen why his approach is "kind of like an old-school Hollywood studio" (+ slideshow). More about "We don't go to architects who have a signature style" says André Balazs
Chocolate-patterned wall panelling and sofas shaped like Toblerones feature in Dutch designer Marcel Wanders' Swiss-inspired hotel in Zurich (+ slideshow). More about Swiss chocolate influences Marcel Wanders' Kameha Grand Zurich hotel
British designer John Pawson has unveiled his plans to convert a former convent and hospital in Tel Aviv's Jaffa port into a hotel and apartment complex for the W hotel brand (+ slideshow). More about John Pawson to convert Jaffa convent and hospital into W's first hotel in Israel
Warsaw firm Mamastudio has launched its own hotel, turning a series of residential spaces into guest rooms that showcase furniture and artwork by Polish designers (+ slideshow). More about Mamastudio transforms historic Warsaw apartments into Autor Rooms boutique hotel
New York architecture firm Grzywinski+Pons aimed to create a space that is "as warm and cheerful as it is urban" when planning the interior of this hotel in Queens (+ slideshow). More about Boro Hotel interior designed as a mash-up of Copenhagen, Seville and New York City
Plants climb all over vertical concrete louvres surrounding the facades of this holiday resort on the Vietnamese coastline designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia's Babylon hotel building features hanging gardens on its facades
This dog-friendly guesthouse and residence in the South Korean province of Chungcheongnam features doors decorated with canine illustrations and a sloping playground overlooking the rural landscape (+ slideshow). More about Bow-wow House by Design Band YOAP is a guesthouse for dog lovers in rural South Korea
Atmospheric photographs of a Swedish lake provided the reference material for this Hong Kong hotel, which Design Systems has lined with flecked marble and textured concrete (+ slideshow). More about Design Systems uses low lighting and marble to create "cold and lonely" mood inside Tuve hotel
A wooden catwalk designed by zU-studio runs through the middle of this hotel conference room in the Netherlands to allow whoever is speaking to be "free to move and walk around" (+ slideshow). More about Wooden catwalk installed in conference room to encourage livelier presentations
Both original geometric tiles and contemporary machine-milled latticework decorate the reception of this boutique hotel in Penang, Malaysia, which occupies a row of traditional shophouses (+ slideshow). More about Ministry of Design transforms five Malaysian shophouses into a boutique hotel
Dutch studio Concrete has kitted out the suites of an Amsterdam hotel with fittings that include retractable staircases, ceiling-mounted gymnast's hoops and under-bed offices. More about Concrete adds retractable stairs and gymnast's hoops to Amsterdam hotel suite
After almost five years in the making, architecture studio FAT and artist Grayson Perry have completed their fairytale-inspired Essex holiday home, which was designed as a shrine to the fictional character Julie Cope (+ slideshow). More about Grayson Perry and FAT reveal the elaborate interiors of their House for Essex
Scandinavian firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a canal-side cultural complex in Malmö, Sweden, featuring a 1,600-seat concert hall, a conference centre and a trio of hotel towers (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Malmö Live is a cultural complex designed as "a small city"
Dutch design firm OMA has been appointed to design a new hotel for the huge Amsterdam RAI exhibition and events complex. More about OMA wins Amsterdam RAI hotel job with stacked-triangle design
A team of Dutch companies has unveiled a proposal for a huge circular wind turbine that doubles as an apartment block and hotel, and also includes a rollercoaster. More about Designs unveiled for giant Rotterdam wind turbine you could live inside
This early 19th-century fortified tower overlooking the coastline of Cape Tainaron in Greece has been converted into a guest house with three suites arranged inside its thick stone walls (+ slideshow). More about Tainaron Blue Retreat is a guest house in a converted tower on the Greek coast
A concrete pier stretches from the Tasmanian shoreline to the entrance of this hotel, which is set within a recently renovated turbine house on the centre of Australia's deepest lake (+ slideshow). More about Cumulus Studio converts an Art Deco pump house into a hotel on a Tasmanian lake