Cadaval & Sola-Morales has converted a derelict block in Mexico City's La Roma neighbourhood into apartments, offices and shops set around a courtyard with white staircases and trailing planting. More about Cadaval & Sola-Morales transforms abandoned building in Mexico into apartments and offices
Mexican-American firm Gracia Studio has completed a single-family home in the city of Tijuana that comprises a weathering-steel volume perched atop a monolithic concrete ground floor. More about Gracia Studio lifts steel-box house in Tijuana on a concrete base
Following this year's Design Week Mexico, Dezeen's US editor Dan Howarth has picked five designers and studios from the country who he is tipping for international success. More about Five emerging Mexican designers and studios to watch
This film created for design video channel Nowness gives a tour around legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán's last house – a bachelor pad turned family home in Mexico City. More about Movie explores Luis Barragán's colourful Casa Gilardi in Mexico City
Lattices of dark blockwork wrap around a verdant courtyard and narrow swimming pool at this hotel in Mexico City, overhauled by local firm JSa. More about JSa lines Hotel Carlota courtyard with black concrete blocks
Traditional elements like a bell tower are reinterpreted as pointed protrusions in this sculptural church in Monterrey, designed by architecture studio Moneo Brock. More about Crystalline church by Moneo Brock stands against mountains in Monterrey
Empty cuboids representing both museum vitrines and coffins are stacked to create this installation outside Mexico City's Museo Tamayo. More about Museum of Immortality forms annual pavilion for Design Week Mexico
The contrasting halves of these perfume bottles can be repurposed separately, or in combinations as vases and incense holders. More about Esrawe Studio and Cadena stack two hemispheres to form reusable perfume bottle for Xinú
London Design Biennale 2016: architect Fernando Romero has unveiled plans for a binational city spanning the US-Mexico border, amid Donald Trump's calls for a wall to be built between the two countries (+ slideshow). More about Borders are "primitive" limits says designer of US-Mexico binational city
Dezeen promotion: Design Week Mexico has unveiled its programme for this year's event, including exhibitions, installations, a symposium, film screenings and an architecture pavilion (+ slideshow). More about Design Week Mexico 2016 reveals programme of exhibitions and installations
A+Awards: another project lauded at this year's Architizer A+ Awards is this Mexican hacienda, where crumbling buildings were restored and connected with new elements by local studio AS Arquitectura to create a hotel (+ slideshow). More about AS Arquitectura turns dilapidated Mexican hacienda into characterful resort
A brick volume containing a games room balances on steel beams that raise it above the sloping plot of this house in the Mexican city of Zapopan (+ slideshow). More about Delfino Lozano's Casa G features an elevated brick games room
Sat close to the San Andreas fault line, this postgraduate education centre by US firm Studiohuerta features thick walls to help minimise damage from earthquakes (+ slideshow). More about Studiohuerta creates "anti-seismic" Center for Postgraduate Studies at Mexico's Cetys University
An exhibition at the Archivo gallery in Mexico City is exploring "the most important" part of the design process – the development stage (+ slideshow). More about Design in Process exhibition showcases unfinished works by Mexican designers
A former theatre in Mexico City has been restored and reconfigured by Bandada Studio and architect Miquel Adrià into an interactive museum that displays a giant model of the metropolis (+ slideshow). More about Bandada Studio transforms historic theatre into Futura CDMX museum
LBR&A Arquitectos has completed a three-sided skyscraper in the heart of Mexico City that rises 246 metres, making it the tallest tower in the sprawling metropolis (+ slideshow). More about LBR&A's Torre Reforma skyscraper becomes Mexico City's tallest building
A+Awards: we're launching a major collaboration with Architizer profiling winners from its A+Awards. First up is this house in the Mexican highlands, with rammed-earth walls made from soil excavated on site (+ slideshow). More about Cherem Arquitectos builds rammed-earth house in Mexican highlands
Mexico's luxury resort boom is leading to a surge in demand for locally sourced products, according to Mexican design brand Luteca. More about "Mexico is a booming growth market for design and architecture" says Luteca
A "forest" of sweet gum trees grows through openings in the concrete slabs of this house in Morelia, Mexico, by Roof Arquitectos, providing an alternative to a central courtyard (+ movie). More about Trees grow through the floors of Julio Hernández house by Roof Arquitectos
Set back from the beach behind a row of houses, this Mexican villa by architect BAAQ has terraces and a swimming pool raised up so residents can relax outdoors with a view of the ocean (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More about BAAQ completes seaside house in Mexico with an elevated pool and a thatched roof