The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features French architect Jean Nouvel's overhaul of a 19th-century department store in Paris. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features Jean Nouvel's "radical design" for Fondation Cartier
Spanish designer Lucas Muñoz has created a showroom for furniture brand Sancal in a former office building in Madrid, reusing all materials from the original space that could not be recycled. More about Lucas Muñoz converts 1960s office into offbeat furniture showroom
Carlotta Di Sandro and Cecilia Marcheschi of Atelier Vago have added pops of bright blue and yellow to the Pailunga creative space in a deconsecrated chapel near Pisa, Italy. More about Atelier Vago transforms Tuscan chapel into "house for art"
Local studio Cometa Architects has added a custom-made central staircase and created circular cutouts to showcase a historic brick ceiling at Éventail, a Barcelona home filled with tactile details. More about Cometa Architects designs Barcelona apartment with "hand fan" layout
French architect Jean Nouvel has overhauled a 19th-century department store alongside the Louvre in central Paris to create a new home for the Fondation Cartier, featuring moveable gallery spaces. More about Jean Nouvel arranges Fondation Cartier around five giant moving floors
An exposed concrete-framed extension frames views across a garden and sunken studio at this Victorian townhouse in Hampstead, converted into apartments by local architecture studio Pinzauer. More about Pinzauer transforms historic Hampstead home with concrete-framed pavilion
Australian architecture studio WHDA has updated the Swan Hill Specialist School in Victoria, adding a steel-framed sports court with colourful brise soleil that acts as its "catalytic social heart". More about WHDA upgrades Australian school with steel-framed sports court
British studio Foster + Partners has announced plans to restore The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford, UK, which is the architecture firm's first-ever project involving a public house. More about Foster + Partners unveils plans for first pub project
New York-based studios GLO and Present Forms transformed a former tobacco warehouse in Hudson into a community education and arts centre. More about GLO and Present Forms create "Swiss Army knife" community centre in Hudson
Countries in Europe's former Eastern Bloc are working out what to do with the architectural legacy of communism. Here, we round up six recent examples of adaptive reuse projects that have given buildings for the era a new lease of life. More about Six Soviet-era buildings given contemporary transformations
Italian practice Studio Bressan has restored and extended a historic farmhouse in Treviso, expanding its portico into a spacious, glazed dining room that blends contemporary and traditional materials. More about Studio Bressan updates and expands traditional stone farmhouse in Italy
London studio David Chipperfield Architects has converted the former US Embassy building in Mayfair, created by architect Eero Saarinen, into a hotel designed as a "palace on the park". More about David Chipperfield Architects transforms Saarinen-designed US Embassy into The Chancery Rosewood
Mexican architecture studio Pedro & Juana has opened up the roof of a Valle de Bravo house to install a pine staircase, which connects to a residential extension higher on the site. More about Pedro & Juana creates wooden tunnel staircase to bridge Mexico house extension
London studio Carmody Groarke has overhauled a gallery at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, UK, reinstating 19th-century details including timber trusses and cobbled floors. More about Carmody Groarke completes "transformative yet discreet" overhaul of Manchester museum
Scottish architecture studio O'DonnellBrown has overhauled and extended a 1970s community centre in Kilmarnock to create a performing arts hub for the charity organisation Take A Bow. More about O'DonnellBrown frames Scottish performing arts hub with timber colonnade
British designer Asif Khan has converted a Soviet-era cinema in Kazakhstan into Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, updating its concrete structure and 18-metre-tall auditorium. More about Asif Khan transforms Soviet cinema into "cloud-like" cultural centre in Almaty
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the renovation of a 1950s country home in Surrey by architecture studio Medium. More about "An unpretentious and tranquil space" says commenter
Architect Luca Cipelletti has renovated the lower-ground floor of Milan's Triennale Milano museum, including its restaurant, music venue and children's play area. More about Triennale Milano completes renovation that "enhances Giovanni Muzio's original 1933 design"
Local studio SHED Architecture & Design has renovated a 1920s building into a compact two-level home with a black exterior and interior references to its history in Seattle. More about SHED Architecture & Design renovates home for Seattle restaurateur
Japanese studio Schemata Architects has converted an old factory on the island of Teshima into a cafe, swapping its metal walls with polycarbonate that allows light into the building. More about Schemata Architects turns ironworks on former "garbage island" into cafe and brewery