Norwegian studio Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter created the self-service Rabot Cabin for hikers in Norway's Okstindan mountain range (+ slideshow). More about Remote mountain site hosts hikers' cabin by Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter
Agence Jouin Manku has upgraded the interior of a hotel and restaurant in the French monastic city of Fontevraud using a palette of wood, metal and fabric to complement the original stone building – a former priory (+ slideshow). More about Agence Jouin Manku transforms Saint-Lazare priory into modern hotel and restaurant
As a Danish architect unveils plans for a snowflake-shaped floating hotel, Dezeen selects 13 of the most ridiculous, outrageous and unusual hotel designs we've ever published – including a flying whale, a person-sized bird's nest and a room that allows guests to sleep with the fishes (+ slideshow). More about 13 crazy hotel designs
News: a Dutch firm specialising in floating structures has unveiled plans for a hotel shaped like a snowflake with a glass roof so that guests can watch the Northern Lights while bobbing off the coast of Tromso in Norway. More about Snowflake-shaped hotel to float off the coast of Norway
News: architect Zaha Hadid has designed the interior for a hotel inside her Opus development in Dubai, which will feature sculptural balconies and her installation for this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid reveals interiors for ME Dubai Hotel
Waves of gold-coloured steel create a shell around this hotel in Swiss ski resort Davos by Munich architects Oikios (+ slideshow). More about Oikios completes Alpine hotel with "unbuildable facade"
This modular honeycomb of wooden cells by a team of Belgian designers could provide a solution for people avoiding music festivals because they don't like sleeping in tents (+ slideshow). More about B-and-Bee camping concept proposes stackable sleeping cells for festivals
Shanghai studio Neri&Hu has completed its largest project to date – a total exterior and interior overhaul of a hotel in Zhengzhou, China, featuring a new facade resembling a pile of glass boxes and an entrance surrounded by a forest of bronze columns (+ slideshow). More about Le Meridien hotel redesign by Neri&Hu features glass boxes and bronze columns
Design collective Penda has developed a concept for a flexible, portable hotel made from rods of bamboo, designed to bring guests closer to nature (+ movie). More about Penda's modular bamboo hotel could be expanded horizontally and vertically
German studio Format Elf Architekten has designed three holiday cottages for a resort in the Bavarian countryside that resemble archetypal pitched-roof barns (+ slideshow). More about Format Elf Architekten adds blackened timber cottages to a rural German resort
News: British sculptor Antony Gormley has added a crouched figure containing a guest suite to the facade of a London hotel. More about Antony Gormley creates a giant metal sculpture you can sleep in
Lengths of reclaimed timber envelop the grand staircase that Melbourne office March Studio has created at the entrance to Hotel Hotel in Canberra, Australia (+ slideshow). More about March Studio adds thousands of timber planks to staircase of Canberra's Hotel Hotel
News: a court ruling has paved the way for demolition of the Foster + Partners-designed Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas – a half-finished building that never opened. More about Court approves demolition of Foster's ill-fated Las Vegas hotel
News: Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled images of a 40-storey hotel with an exposed exoskeleton that is under construction in Macau, China (+ movie). More about Zaha Hadid unveils sculptural hotel for casino resort in Macau
Pathways slice through the grounds of this hotel and health farm in Portugal's Penafiel region, leading to the entrances of partly submerged buildings designed by Porto firm AND-RÉ (+ slideshow). More about White buildings sink into the landscape at the White Wolf Hotel by AND-RÉ
Paris studio Jouin Manku installed a sculptural fireplace and chose materials with natural tones and textures to give this lounge in Munich's Bayerischer Hof hotel the feel of a fantasy forest landscape. More about Nature-inspired hotel lounge by Jouin Manku features an organic fireplace
Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled images of a hotel that will wind across a rocky outcrop in Norway's Lofoten archipelago. More about Snøhetta reveals sinuous hotel for a Norwegian island
More than 50 artists, designers and makers were enlisted to help design the eclectic interior of this hotel in Canberra, overseen by Fender Katsalidis Architects and Suppose Design Office (+ slideshow). More about Fender Katsalidis Architects and Suppose Design Office collaborate on eclectic Canberra hotel
A spiral of wooden strips surrounds a staircase in the restaurant of this Strasbourg hotel, designed inside a former equestrian academy by Paris studio Agence Jouin Manku (+ slideshow). More about Wooden strips coil around staircase at Strasbourg hotel by Jouin Manku
Perched on an Alpine ridge 3256 metres above sea level, this shiny steel cabin by Swiss firm Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes creates a starting point for mountaineers climbing the Bishorn, Weisshorn or Tête de Milon (+ slideshow). More about Steel-clad mountain hut by Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes wraps over an Alpine ridge