Architecture studio FAR has built a six-storey housing block in Berlin from precast concrete slabs. More about Wohnregal is a prefabricated concrete live-work apartment block in Berlin
Towering, pale wood volumes hide the functional elements of this apartment in Melbourne, Australia which has been overhauled by local architecture studio Edition Office. More about Edition Office rearranges The Melburnian Apartment around oak wood volumes
Architectural designer Caspar Schols has developed the design for a garden shed with moving walls that he built for his parents into a flat-pack cabin for living and for working. More about Caspar Schols develops Cabin ANNA from the garden shed he built for his mother
Wooden detailing and black-painted steel fill the lofty interiors of The Gymnasium apartment that Robbert De Goede has built within an old sports hall in the Netherlands. More about Old gymnasium transformed into lofty apartment in Amsterdam
Dezeen promotion: Robert A M Stern's New York firm RAMSA will add another "ultra-luxury" residential building to Hong Kong's skyline. More about RAMSA designs St. George's Mansions with sweeping views across Hong Kong's lush Kadoorie Hill neighbourhood
Canadian studio Odami has redesigned a 1980s apartment in Toronto with bold and rich features like dark quartzite, walnut and green walls. More about Green-painted sunroom with cathedral views features in renovated Toronto apartment
The Borderless Community of Zi Ni Twelve Portals is a housing project in Guangzhou, China, designed by Fei Architects to show off its occupants. More about Fei Architects designs apartment block that frames residents' daily lives in Guangzhou
An external walkway and glazed living space are hidden behind sliding slatted woodwork in this house in Chile, designed by architects Santiago Valdivieso and Stefano Rolla. More about Slatted wood encloses glass Engawa House in Chile
Zellige is a social housing complex in Nantes, France, designed in a collaboration between French architecture studios Tectône and Tact Architectes. More about Spiral staircase twists through Zellige apartment complex by Tectône and Tact Architectes
Stone Garden is a new apartment block designed by Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh that was completed shortly before much of Beirut was devastated by a huge explosion this summer. More about Lina Ghotmeh's Stone Garden apartment block survives Beirut explosion
Eight black houses are arranged next to a path cutting through this residential complex that architecture firm PPAA has designed in Mexico City. More about Black monolithic volumes and concrete latticework form Carrizal houses in Mexico City
From graphic tilework to hand-painted wallpaper, architects and designers have found a myriad of ways to create striking surfaces in the bedroom. Here are seven standout examples in our latest Dezeen Lookbook. More about Seven bedrooms with eye-catching statement walls
Mumbai Artist Retreat is a cabin built from steel and bamboo by Indian studio Architecture Brio in the coastal town of Alibag that's raised on stilts to withstand rising sea levels. More about Architecture Brio raises artist's cabin on stilts in India
The Los Angeles Design Group added three structures to a mid-century home in Los Angeles' Highland Park to create a guest house, studio and exhibition spaces for two visual artists. More about The LADG designs studio and residence for a painter and a photographer
The high-pressure medical jobs of the couple living in this Poznań apartment led Agnieszka Owsiany Studio to apply a calming mix of wood and pale marble throughout the interiors. More about Agnieszka Owsiany Studio creates tranquil apartment in Poznań for couple working in medicine
American studio SHED referenced Japanese design and three-ring circus tents when creating the Me-Kwa-Mooks Net-Zero house in Seattle, Washington. More about Circus tents and Japanese architecture inform Seattle house renovation
Seattle architecture studio Wittman Estes drew on ancient Chinese landscape paintings and principles of garden design for this black house in Washington. More about Gardens bookend Yo Ju Courtyard House in Washington by Wittman Estes
Voice-activated technology and space-saving furniture helped Sim-Plex Design Studio turn a two-bedroom home in Hong Kong into Smart Zendo, a four-bedroom apartment with hidden storage. More about Sim-Plex Design Studio creates a four-bedroom smart home in Hong Kong
Tactile bricks and pinewood partitions decorate the La Nave apartment, which Nomos has slotted into the concrete shell of a disused workshop in Madrid, Spain. More about Old Spanish workshop converted into tactile family home by Nomos
A charred-wood washroom and a monolithic, concrete bathtub feature in our latest Dezeen Lookbook of 10 zen bathrooms that swap traditional white walls for dark, moody hues and tactile materials. More about Ten tranquil bathrooms with dark and soothing interiors