US firm Aamodt Plumb Architects has updated a Massachusetts dwelling made up of old barns that were converted into a single-family home in the 1950s (+ slideshow). More about Aamodt Plumb renovates New England home housed within a cluster of barns
Almost 20 years after buying a shophouse in a historic Singapore neighbourhood, local architect Maria Warner Wong and her team have converted the building into a new venue for art and design (+ slideshow). More about WOW Architects opens art and design venue in converted Singapore shophouse
Beijing architecture firm Remix Studio has transformed a traditional house in the city's Dashilar area into its own office space, pairing glass and steel with the original wooden structure (+ slideshow). More about Remix Studio renovates Beijing hutong house into office with metal mezzanine
London studio RA Projects has reconfigured and refurbished a house owned by fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic, adding a blue steel staircase in the centre designed to look "like a sculpture in a gallery" (+ slideshow). More about RA Projects inserts blue steel staircase into London house for Roksanda Ilincic
Italian architect Renzo Piano has unveiled plans to convert a power station on the banks of Moscow's Moskva river into a new venue for contemporary art. More about Renzo Piano to convert Moscow power station into art gallery
Los Angeles-based Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA) has restored and updated the Julius Shulman Home and Studio in the Hollywood Hills, where the influential photographer lived for six decades (+ slideshow). More about LOHA updates mid-century home built for legendary photographer Julius Shulman
Old stone walls contrast with crisp white surfaces inside this converted barn in southern France, which architect Michaël Menuet has transformed into an office and showroom for furniture retailer Objekto (+ slideshow). More about Michaël Menuet converts French barn into a showroom of Brazilian furniture
Squares of light shine through the perforated brick facade of this former storehouse, which architect Ryo Matsui has converted into an entertaining space after it was partially destroyed in Japan's 2011 earthquake. More about Earthquake-damaged storehouse in Japan transformed into living space by Ryo Matsui
Shanghai studios Ares Partners and Atelier Liu Yuyang have converted a group of disused farm buildings into a boutique resort nestled among the rocky pinnacles of China's Yangshuo County (+ slideshow). More about Ares Partners and Atelier Liu Yuyang transform old Chinese farmhouses into mountain resort
Original features are paired with blackened steel in modular concrete furniture brand Isomi's first factory in London's Clerkenwell (+ slideshow). More about Paul Crofts Studio creates Isomi showroom in former London print factory
Major preservation works are underway to replace the tilted glass skylights that define Stirling and Gowan's iconic Engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England. More about Skylights of Stirling and Gowan's Engineering Building to be replaced in £19.5 million renovation
Interior designer Maayan Zusman and architect Amir Navon designed bespoke carpentry with hidden storage space for a 60-year-old apartment in Tel Aviv. More about Wall of hidden panels provides storage for renovated Tel Aviv apartment
Hanoi architecture office Studio 102 has transformed an incomplete house in the Vietnamese capital into an office for a landscape architecture firm, featuring plants that clamber over its slatted timber cladding (+ slideshow). More about Studio 102 converts an empty Hanoi house into a plant-covered office and showroom
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: artist Theaster Gates has converted a derelict bank building in a low-income Chicago neighbourhood into a cultural venue with galleries, event space, and libraries for books and vinyl records (+ slideshow). More about Theaster Gates transforms abandoned Chicago bank into public arts centre
Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has spent 10 years renovating an old mill in France's Dordogne region into a pair of holiday homes that visitors can rent (+ slideshow). More about Piet Hein Eek converts former mill buildings into holiday rentals in rural France
Beijing architect Cao Pu has created a compact hostel in a traditional hutong courtyard that gets even smaller when its front wall is rolled back to provide extra external space (+ slideshow). More about Archicao's tiny Humble Hostel expands and contracts with a rolling facade
Cavaa Arquitectes has stripped back the interior of an apartment in Barcelona's Poblenou neighbourhood, creating an open-plan living space featuring traditional vaulted ceilings. More about Cavaa Arquitectes exposes vaulted ceiling inside revamped Barcelona apartment
US architect Martin Fenlon cites the Gehry House as inspiration for the renovation and expansion of his own home – a cedar-clad bungalow in Los Angeles (+ slideshow). More about Martin Fenlon puts contemporary face on historic bungalow near downtown LA
Tasked with creating a painting studio for an artist in rural Mallorca, local studio Munarq has overhauled a crumbling farmhouse and added a stone-walled extension (+ slideshow). More about Munarq transforms an old farmhouse into an art studio and gallery in Mallorca
Architects Lluís Corbella and Marc Mazeres have converted a former dairy in Barcelona into a loft-style house featuring a suspended walkway and glass walls (+ slideshow). More about House in an old Barcelona dairy has new spaces inserted around its original structure