The subtly different proportions of two concrete gables fronting a bank building in northern Germany create the illusion that one side is fatter than the other. More about Volksbank Gifhorn by Stephan Braunfels Architekten
Slideshow: French architects Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Belgian studio MDW Architecture have collaborated on designs for a new police headquarters on a former police cavalry site in Charleroi, Belgium, which now also accommodates a dance school. More about Hôtel de Police / Charleroi Danses by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and MDW Architecture
Offices for a water-management company designed by Dutch architect Wiel Arets are nearing completion in Maasbracht, the Netherlands. More about Regiocentrale Zuid by Wiel Arets Architects
Slideshow: people strolling by this brick wall in London might miss the disguised entrance to a secret office and home. More about Old Workshop by Jack Woolley
A single-storey studio at the bottom of the garden of a semi-detached house in London creates a separation between work and domestic life for its residents. More about Suburban Studio by Ashton Porter Architects
A fabric cloak stretched across the glass facade of this golf ball-shaped office and showroom shades it from direct sunlight. More about iGuzzini Illuminazione España SA Headquarters by MiAS Architects
Employees at web consultancy Netlife Research in Oslo can take a moment for contemplation inside one of three wooden rooms dedicated to silence. More about The Monastery by Eriksen Skajaa Architects
The best escape route from a meeting at the Denmark office of toy brand Lego is down a metal slide. More about Lego PMD by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord
Architects Foster + Partners have attached a 35-storey tower onto the side of two renovated 1920s buildings in Vancouver’s financial district. More about Jameson House by Foster + Partners
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a mixed-use block in Hamburg with a facade that parts like a pair of red curtains. More about Sumatrakontor by Erick van Egeraat
American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window. More about Greenland Group Suzhou Center by SOM
A curving chasm slices off the corner of this showroom building in western Tokyo to create a passageway to its entrance. More about Sunwell Muse by Takato Tamagami and Be-Fun Design
American architects Richard Meier & Partners have unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City. More about Mitikah Office Tower by Richard Meier & Partners
A giant zinc-plated ribbon folds in and out between the floors of this Antwerp office extension for metal refiner Umicore. More about Umicore Hoboken by Conix Architects
Four-storey-high panels of corrugated Corten steel cover the exterior of this Tokyo gallery and office block by Japanese architect Kensuke Watanabe. More about Iron Gallery by Kensuke Watanabe Architecture Studio
Engineers for web giant Google can lounge on sofas or draw on the walls at their new London headquarters by designers Penson. More about Google Engineering HQ by Penson
Danish architects Henning Larsen and Norwegian landscape architect Gullik Gulliksen have won a competition to design municipal offices and a public square in Trondheim, Norway. More about Leüthens Kulturhage by Henning Larsen Architects and Gullik Gulliksen
In this latest interview from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief talks to Marcus Fairs talks to Colin Seah from Ministry of Design about the design of their own office, a former shophouse in Singapore where the rooms and the furniture within them are arranged in rows like a barcode. More about Inside Awards: Bar Code office by Ministry of Design
Faceted metal plates surround cave-like rooms and a winding mezzanine at the new Amsterdam headquarters for drinks brand Red Bull. More about Red Bull Amsterdam by Sid Lee Architecture
Artist Olafur Eliasson has designed fort-like headquarters to rise out of the sea for a Danish investment company. More about Kirk Kapital A/S headquarters by Olafur Eliasson