Brazilian firm Saito Arquitetos has reorganised an apartment set in São Paulo's historic Conjunto Nacional building around a large wooden box. More about Saito Arquitetos updates apartment in modernist São Paulo building
Paul Cashin Architects has refurbished and extended a 19th-century cottage in Sussex, England, cladding the old and new buildings in larch. More about Paul Cashin Architects creates timber extension for coastal Island Cottage
Architect Jake Moulson has renovated a dilapidated Dublin townhouse, creating a dramatic set of interiors filled with bespoke furniture. More about Jake Moulson creates eclectic interiors in D2 Townhouse revamp
A sofa, dining table and bed furnish this shop for luxury sleepwear in Brooklyn, which was designed as a "celebration of the home" to reflect its cosy pieces. More about Lunya styles Williamsburg store like an apartment
A Los Angeles apartment building designed by modernist architect Rudolph Schindler has been updated by local firm Enclosures Architects to provide accommodation for its owners as well as short-term stays. More about Enclosures Architects revives Rudolph Schindler's Manola Court apartments in Los Angeles
A Bridgehampton bungalow featuring a redwood forest planted by television personality Martha Stewart has been redesigned as a bohemian hideaway for summer beach seekers. More about Hamptons motel once owned by Donna Karan becomes A Room at the Beach
Portland architecture firm Beebe Skidmore has inserted a cubic volume with large windows into the middle of a 20th-century home in the city to add more space and bring natural light inside. More about Beebe Skidmore punctures ornate Portland home with "fearlessly distinct" glass cubes
New York design studio Egg Collective has opened a new showroom in Lower Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood, where its furniture is displayed in rooms laid out like a home. More about Egg Collective designs its home-like showroom in old Manhattan law office
Architecture Cotugno Thiry has transformed a 19th-century brewery building in Belgium into La Bouteillerie, a simple house with rugged brick walls. More about Belgian bottling house converted into family home by Architecture Cotugno Thiry
New York studio Champalimaud has transformed a 1920s residence that was destroyed by a hurricane into a luxury holiday home on a resort in Dorado, Puerto Rico. More about Champalimaud revitalises hurricane-ravaged Su Casa villa in Puerto Rico
Shelves stagger along the walls of this Williamsburg apartment, which local architecture firm Buro Koray Duman designed for a Brooklyn couple with thousands of books. More about Angled bookshelves define Publisher's Loft by Buro Koray Duman in Brooklyn
Architect Daniel Delgoffe has renovated and extended old brick boiler house to create a new home for ESAC, a leading Belgian circus school. More about ESAC circus school built by Daniel Delgoffe inside an old Belgian boiler house
Foster + Partners has collaborated with the Apple design team and architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle to transform a neoclassical building in the US capital into a sleek retail space with a skylit atrium, where events are held to "entertain and inspire the local people". More about Foster + Partners converts historic Washington DC library into Apple Store
A warm material palette is used to transport customers from the urban grit of New York City into this cosy bakery designed by local firm GRT Architects. More about Pink concrete, cherry wood and cork feature in Manhattan's Bourke Street Bakery
Architecture office AP Valletta has restored an old coach house in the town of Balzan, Malta, adding a contemporary extension featuring a weave-patterned stone facade. More about AP Valletta adds extension with "woven" stone facade to The Coach House in Malta
British designer Ben Thompson has combined the grandeur of a Georgian manor with the informality of a modern farmhouse for the interiors of a new hotel in Hampshire, England. More about Ben Thompson brings the English country home into the 21st century at Heckfield Place
Crumbling buildings have been transformed into the boutique Monteverdi Hotel in Tuscany, which includes rustic bedroom suites and a cavernous spa. More about Monteverdi Hotel avoids "folkloristic approach" to restoration of medieval Tuscan hamlet
Chunky columns covered in aggregate puncture through galleries in Sotheby's New York headquarters, which has just re-opened to the public following a major overhaul designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu. More about OMA completes renovation of Sotheby's New York galleries
We're all to blame for the gentrification of Ernö Goldfinger's brutalist Balfron Tower, says Owen Hatherley, so stop getting angry at the architects. More about "We couldn't stop Balfron Tower from being privatised. In fact we probably helped it along"
Steel beams crisscross through the centre of Repoussoir, a house extension that ConForm Architects has completed in London. More about ConForm Architects completes London house extension with steel frame at its centre