London architect Carl Turner has developed a design for a prefabricated floating house and has made the plans available to download via an open-source architecture website. More about Carl Turner design open-source house that floats on floodwater
News: Dutch construction company Heijmans has developed a prefabricated starter home for young professionals that can be installed on vacant city-centre sites in under 24 hours (+ movie). More about Heijmans proposes pop-up homes to solve the problem of high rents
Philippe Starck has unveiled a prototype for his latest series of prefabricated low-energy wooden homes – a glazed and aluminium-clad structure outside Paris that he and his wife Jasmine plan to move into (+ slideshow). More about Philippe Starck's new home is the prototype for a new prefab housing collection
Beijing Design Week 2014: People's Architecture Office has developed a panelling system for building temporary living spaces within the ageing structures of the city's hutong districts (+ slideshow). More about Courtyard House Plugin by People's Architecture Office repurposes ancient Beijing residences
For the new premises of German textile-printing company Textilmacher, Munich firm Tillich Architektur has completed a building with a concrete facade reminiscent of creased fabric (+ slideshow). More about Tillich Architektur adds folded concrete facade to textile company headquarters
News: Brooklyn firm Garrison Architects has unveiled a full-size prototype for post-disaster housing described as "a step forward in the way that cities respond to natural disasters" like hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. More about Modular New York homes by Garrison Architects to "create a blueprint for post-disaster housing"
News: a double-domed pavilion is the first building to have its main structure entirely made out of wooden panels created by robots, according to academics from the University of Stuttgart (+ slideshow). More about Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall is a plywood pavilion made by robots
This six-sided wooden cabin by Estonian designer Jaanus Orgusaar has walls that zigzag up and down and two circular windows resembling fisheye camera lenses (+ slideshow). More about Six-sided modular cabin by Jaanus Orgusaar with wooden walls and fisheye windows
Architecture collective MAPA of Brazil and Uruguay has built a prefabricated modular home and transported it by lorry to a picturesque spot in the countryside outside Porto Alegre (photos by Leonardo Finotti + slideshow). More about Prefabricated modular home by MAPA delivered to the Brazilian countryside
Two Denmark architects have designed a concept for narrow apartments that fill tiny gaps between existing buildings. More about Live Between Buildings by Mateusz Mastalski and Ole Robin Storjohann
French designers Zébra3/Buy-Sellf have designed a prefabricated holiday home in the shape of a cloud that sits next to a lake in south-west France (+ slideshow). More about Le Nuage by Zébra3/Buy-Sellf
Milan 2013: Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune will present a kit-of-parts for a prefabricated Scandinavian house in Milan this April (+ slideshow). More about Tind House by Claesson Koivisto Rune
The next intake of architecture students at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia will be accommodated in modular student housing with stark concrete interiors (+ slideshow). More about Student Housing in St. Cugat by H Arquitectes and dataAE
It took just four minutes and nine seconds to install this prefabricated guest house designed by British architect Richard Horden on a site overlooking Lake Maggiore in Switzerland (+ movie). More about Micro Compact Home 016 by Richard Horden
Chilean architects Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy designed this house in Santo Domingo as a cluster of prefabricated modules made from structural insulated panels. More about SIP Panel House by Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy
A painted-timber skin that skirts around the top storey of this Hamburg house reveals the heights of staggered floors inside. More about Haus W by Kraus Schoenberg
Dezeen archive: one of our most popular stories this week was about a prefabricated house in Portugal that costs the same amount of money as a family car (top left) so here's a roundup of other prefabricated designs that have been published on Dezeen. See all the stories »
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This prefabricated house in Portugal costs about the same price to manufacture as a family car (photographs by José Campos). More about MIMA House by MIMA Architects
Dezeen Wire: in this movie filmed by cultural collective Pacific Standard Time, rapper Ice Cube explains his love of architecture and how the work of renowned architects Charles and Ray Eames inspires him. More about Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames
Climbers in the Alps can now spend their nights sleeping in a tube that cantilevers over the edge of a mountain. More about New Refuge Gervasutti by LEAPfactory