US firms LaRue Architects and Britt Design Group have renovated a 1950s waterfront cabin in Austin, turning it into a full-time residence reminiscent of dogtrot houses in the American South. More about LaRue Architects incorporates breezeway into revamped cabin on Texas lake edge
A minimalist charred-wood extension, a garden studio wrapped in green terrazzo and an origami-inspired annexe are in the running to be crowned London's best home improvement of 2021. More about Don't Move, Improve! 2021 shortlist spotlights London's best house renovations
Satish Jassal Architects has remodelled a four-storey Victorian house in north London and added an oak-framed extension at the rear. More about Satish Jassal Architects adds oak framed conservatory to renovated London townhouse
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, adding a concrete and glass sphere to a 1930s building. More about Renzo Piano completes Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles
Architect Murray Barker and artist Esther Stewart renovated this two-bedroom 1960s apartment in Melbourne using colours and materials that pay homage to the original mid-century interior. More about Mid-century Melbourne apartment modernised with pistachio green kitchen
Shanghai-based studio Team BLDG has turned the bathhouse of a former aluminium factory in Xiamen into an art gallery and studio called The Field for an artist who creates Buddha statues. More about Team BLDG transforms factory bathhouse into skylit art gallery
Italian studio Llabb has combined two apartments in Genoa, creating a quirky home that combines nautical references with contemporary art. More about Casa ai Bailucchi is a two-level apartment overlooking Genoa port
A vacant natural-gas plant in Madrid, Spain is set to be overhauled by Foster + Partners to create the plant-filled and timber-lined Acciona Ombú offices. More about Foster + Partners to transform abandoned gas plant in Madrid into offices
Canadian studio Jean Verville Architecte has created a theatrical interior inside a Montreal house by adding a large steel structure capped by a skylight that casts dramatic shadows. More about Jean Verville Architecte inserts gridded steel lightwell into Montreal home
Toronto studio Ali Budd Interiors has transformed a dated wooden log cabin into a comfortable Canadian holiday home, with a wood-lined sunroom, vintage rugs and art by Andy Warhol. More about Ali Budd Interiors transforms Muskoka log cabin into art-filled cottage
LOT Office for Architecture has designed a monochrome blue Brooklyn townhouse for a renovation project in the borough's Bushwick neighbourhood. More about LOT Office for Architecture creates all-blue building in Bushwick
Mexican firm Viga Arquitectos sought to lighten up the atmosphere in a concrete house by reconfiguring the layout, adding pale-toned finishes and incorporating more greenery. More about Viga Arquitectos overhauls 1970s home in Mexico City
Dorte Mandrup has announced its plans to convert the Saalecker Workshops, the former home of German architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg, into an international design academy. More about Dorte Mandrup to turn former home of Nazi architect into design academy
Intervention Architecture has overhauled a 1970s bungalow in Birmingham, transforming an interior that once seemed small and cramped into one that feels bright and spacious. More about Intervention Architecture opens up 1970s bungalow
Dezeen promotion: DU Studio has redesigned the headquarters of Zhengzhou Yutong Bus in Zhengzhou, China, creating an updated corporate identity while reusing up to 60 per cent of the existing structure and materials. More about DU Studio revamps Zhengzhou Yutong Bus headquarters
Architecture studio Declerck-Daels Architecten has renovated an early 20th-century home in the Belgium town of Ingelmunster into a multifunctional office clad in green-patinated copper. More about Declerck-Daels Architecten clads multi-use office in patinated copper
Local architect Clément Lesnoff-Rocard has converted a 19th-century house in Paris's La Défense into a contemporary home featuring a double-height dining room that looks onto a central courtyard. More about The Island is a nature-inspired Paris home designed around a courtyard garden
Porto architecture practice Merooficina has converted a former fisherman's house in Aveiro, Portugal, into two apartments that blend original features with new interventions. More about Merooficina carves up former fisherman's house into two bright apartments
Architecture studio DeDraft has remodelled a terraced house in east London, adding a kitchen extension clad in green aluminium panels that connects the interior with the garden. More about DeDraft completes green metal extension to east London home
Architecture firm Perkins&Will plans to revive a vacant 1970s office building in Alaska by stripping it back and re-cladding it with an angular, glazed facade that mimics a glacier. More about Perkins&Will redesigns earthquake-damaged Alaska office to evoke glacier