Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering original details like parquet flooring and adding contemporary lighting and black steel fittings (+ slideshow). More about IFUB installs bespoke black steel fittings in 1930s Art Deco apartment renovation
Materials uncovered during the renovation of this early-20th-century apartment in Montreal have been used to add texture to the space and create visual boundaries between each room. More about Anne Sophie Goneau exposes brickwork within Montreal apartment renovation
This renovated Paris apartment for a fashion designer features a vertical herb garden, rainbow-striped flooring and a staircase with irregular alternating treads (+ slideshow). More about SABO Project transforms Paris apartment with multicoloured flooring and space-saving stairs
Shanghai-based Lukstudio has reinterpreted a traditional Chinese food drying rack with a metal grid structure and hanging wires for a noodle bar in Changsha (+ slideshow). More about Lukstudio suspends metal wires to look like drying noodles at Chinese restaurant
Fashion designer Rick Owens has opened his first store in Los Angeles on North La Brea avenue – installing architectural elements influenced by a legendary filmmaker within a former industrial space (+ slideshow). More about Rick Owens opens first Los Angeles store in 1920s ribbon factory
Suppose Design Office has used dim lighting and minimal furnishings to create a theatrical dining space for an intimate sushi restaurant in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Suppose Design Office creates spotlit "stage" for chef at Tokyo sushi restaurant
Nan Arquitectos has used a muted material and colour palette to evoke feelings of peace and calm at this combined physiotherapy and beauty centre in northwest Spain (+ slideshow). More about Nan Arquitectos selects pale palette to relax visitors at SanaSana physiotherapy centre
Beijing architecture firm Remix Studio has transformed a traditional house in the city's Dashilar area into its own office space, pairing glass and steel with the original wooden structure (+ slideshow). More about Remix Studio renovates Beijing hutong house into office with metal mezzanine
London studio RA Projects has reconfigured and refurbished a house owned by fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic, adding a blue steel staircase in the centre designed to look "like a sculpture in a gallery" (+ slideshow). More about RA Projects inserts blue steel staircase into London house for Roksanda Ilincic
Dutch Design Week 2015: design agency Maurice Mentjens referred to the convoluted structures of the brain when creating the interior for this boutique selling stimulants in Eindhoven (+ slideshow). More about House of Smart drugs shop by Maurice Mentjens features maze-like wooden beams
UK studio Caruso St John has created Gagosian's third and largest gallery in London, featuring dark oak flooring and a glass ceiling, which opened ahead of this week's Frieze art fair (+ slideshow). More about Caruso St John's Gagosian Grosvenor Hill art gallery opens in London
Old stone walls contrast with crisp white surfaces inside this converted barn in southern France, which architect Michaël Menuet has transformed into an office and showroom for furniture retailer Objekto (+ slideshow). More about Michaël Menuet converts French barn into a showroom of Brazilian furniture
Rotterdam studio Shift has used a 14-metre multifunctional cabinet wall to give a "loft-like" openness to the ground floor of a historic townhouse in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More about Shift uses "barcode-like" wall cabinet to transform Amsterdam townhouse
Original features are paired with blackened steel in modular concrete furniture brand Isomi's first factory in London's Clerkenwell (+ slideshow). More about Paul Crofts Studio creates Isomi showroom in former London print factory
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
Towering fibreglass panels modelled on the tailoring of Dior clothing envelope the fashion brand's new boutique in Seoul, created by architect Christian de Portzamparc and Peter Marino (+ slideshow). More about Christian de Portzamparc and Peter Marino create garment-inspired boutique for Dior
Architect Junya Ishigami designed partitions with assorted curving shapes for the cloud-inspired interior of this nursery, located inside a high-rise in Atsugi, Japan (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More about Junya Ishigami creates Cloud Garden nursery with cloud-shaped walls inside a high-rise block
Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro Associated Architects teamed up to design Aesop's first outpost in Latin America store, pairing exposed concrete with handmade tiles (+ slideshow). More about Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro add pastel tones and concrete to Aesop's São Paulo store
Interior designer Maayan Zusman and architect Amir Navon designed bespoke carpentry with hidden storage space for a 60-year-old apartment in Tel Aviv. More about Wall of hidden panels provides storage for renovated Tel Aviv apartment
Hanoi architecture office Studio 102 has transformed an incomplete house in the Vietnamese capital into an office for a landscape architecture firm, featuring plants that clamber over its slatted timber cladding (+ slideshow). More about Studio 102 converts an empty Hanoi house into a plant-covered office and showroom