William Tozer Associates has overhauled a Victorian terraced house in north London, introducing a white, modern living area that faces out onto a neighbouring brutalist estate. More
Nearly 2,000 pieces of plywood slot together like a puzzle in this staircase, which features in a London home that has been overhauled by local studio Tsuruta Architects. More
Custom-made pinewood cabinetry and white marble walls feature in this 19th-century row house in New Jersey, which has been overhauled by local studio Jeff Jordan Architects. More
Guests staying in the minimal rooms at this small hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico, can also dine from on-site food carts, sample local booze and shop products by Mexican designers. More
Slovenian studio Arhitektura DOO has refurbished a small apartment inside one of the five Ljubljana towers that modernist architect Edvard Ravnikar built in the 1960s. More
American firm Un.Box Studio has transformed historic structures in Austin into a high-design hostel that is meant to serve as an alternative to pricey boutique hotels. More
The huge skeleton of a blue whale is now the centrepiece of the entrance hall at London's Natural History Museum – but unlike the dinosaur cast there before, it is suspended from the ceiling, freeing up space below for an information desk that doubles as a bar. More
French office Studio mAAb has transformed a single-storey apartment in the city of Rennes into a duplex by incorporating a pair of wooden volumes and a mezzanine walkway into the former attic space. More
Richard Pender was involved in every stage of this self-build project to create a sustainable and accessible house for his parents in rural Northumberland, which involved fabricating the wooden frame on site in a disused barn. More
Architecture firm Snøhetta has used microscopic studies of Copenhagen's foods and beer to develop the colour and material palette of this restaurant, which has taken over the space previously occupied by famed eatery Noma in the Danish capital. More
Mexican architects Estudio Atemporal has paired concrete columns and cinder-block walls with black metal and glass partitions when transforming a former industrial factory in Mexico City into a co-working space. More
US firm Woodhouse Tinucci Architects has spruced up a reading room in the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library, a 1970s building originally designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. More
London studio Amin Taha Architects has updated a 1950s terraced house in the city's Bayswater neighbourhood, adding a basement level topped with a rugged concrete soffit and a lightwell set into a courtyard garden. More
A former sailor's lodge was overhauled to create this boutique hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, which includes hostel-style bunkbeds and compact rooms, aimed at design-conscious travellers on a budget. More
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has created a golden hued events pavilion with a broad scooped roof in the grounds of a historic chateau near Maastricht. More
Steel mesh curtains can be lifted to offer glimpses of performances inside this traditional music centre designed by Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen for Muharraq Island in Bahrain. More
Rooflights, pale tiles and glossy flooring are among the tweaks that Apollo Architects & Associates made to a family home in Toyko to give it a light-filled living, kitchen and dining room. More
Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos has converted three houses within the walls of a 15th-century castle in the foothills of Spain's Sierra de Gredos into a pair of brightly lit homes for a brother and sister. More
A prominent art dealer has turned an estate once owned by infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar into luxury accommodation filled with items from his collection. More
London firm Stanton Williams has renovated and extended the Musée d'arts de Nantes, adding a series of extensions including a monolithic structure wrapped in stone and translucent marble to the Beaux-Arts building. More