Creative agency Steep Learning Group wanted to emulate "a giant doughnut outside a doughnut shop" when creating a playful 2.5-metre-tall sculpture of a pair of shorts to act as the mascot for clothing brand Gramicci's east London store. More about Gramicci store in east London revolves around jumbo pair of stripy shorts
Architecture studio Rafael Viñoly Architects has completed a 16-storey skyscraper in Buenos Aires featuring double-height floors linked by a concrete scissor stair enclosed in glass. More about Rafael Viñoly Architects centres "transparency and rationality" for Buenos Aires skyscraper
Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed a house in southern Chile with native oak cladding and faceted roofs laid out along a V-shaped plan to provide the best views of a lake. More about Hebra Arquitectos orients wood-clad Palo Quemado toward distant lake
French firm Toledano + Architects has renovated an apartment in the seaside town of Biarritz, adding a raised sleeping area that looks out towards the nearby lighthouse through a large bay window. More about Toledano + Architects adds wavy mezzanine to compact Biarritz apartment
A mezzanine and rooftop lounge are among the enhancements by Robert Hutchison Architecture to a former warehouse that has been reborn as a multipurpose venue called Stone Way Auto. More about Robert Hutchison Architecture converts 1950s Seattle building into event space
Interior design studio Holloway Li has reimagined the office of advertising agency Mother London using bespoke furniture that nods to the 1970s to enhance its industrial setting in Shoreditch, London. More about Holloway Li furnishes Mother London office with bold-coloured furniture
For our latest lookbook, we've rounded up eight home interiors that make clever use of mezzanines to optimise floorspace. More about Eight home interiors where mezzanines maximise usable space
Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. More about Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university
Scandinavian and Japanese influences come together at Studio Frantzén, a restaurant in London's Harrods department store designed by Joyn Studio. More about Wooden elements "take centre stage" in Japandi-style Studio Frantzén restaurant
American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has paired a towering tree with speckled wood panelling and vintage furniture by Carlo Scarpa at the Ulla Johnson flagship store in West Hollywood. More about Kelly Wearstler designs Ulla Johnson store to capture the "spirit of southern California"
Local studio SSdH has designed a split-level, mezzanine-style apartment characterised by eclectic furniture, which is housed within an old chocolate factory in Melbourne. More about SSdH tucks Melbourne warehouse apartment into former chocolate factory
Mexico City-based architect Ludwig Godefroy designed a brutalist concrete holiday home in a Mexican pine forest called Casa Alférez. More about Ludwig Godefroy creates brutalist cube-shaped home in Mexico
Ménard Dworkind has renovated a 1980s house on the south shore of Montreal with rounded plaster details and a terracotta fireplace. More about Ménard Dworkind adds sculptural mezzanine to 1980s Quebec home
Local studios ERDC Arquitectos and Taller General have constructed a brick and glass house with an arched roof and mezzanine level in Quito, Ecuador. More about ERDC Arquitectos and Taller General create a "bread oven" house with vaulted brick in Quito
Architect Lee Ivett, designer Simon Harlow and developer Duncan Blackmore have turned a 25-square-metre apartment in Glasgow into a brightly coloured space that doesn't contain any freestanding furniture. More about Tiny Glasgow apartment transformed into playful pied-à-terre
Interiors studio Crystal Sinclair Designs has renovated a loft apartment in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood to include a mezzanine with a wall of books and a bedroom behind a glass partition. More about Dumbo Loft by Crystal Sinclair Designs features a book-filled mezzanine
A forest cabin and an apartment in a New York warehouse feature in this lookbook, which shines a light on ten homes with snug bedrooms raised on mezzanine levels. More about Ten bedrooms tucked away on cosy mezzanine levels
Architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled its design for an expansion to St Louis Orchestra's Powell Hall that will feature scalloped walls, a grainy brick facade and glazed arches. More about Snøhetta to add entrance shaped like "canted shells" to St Louis' Powell Hall
Double-height volumes in this gabled house in Porto accommodate mezzanine levels and light-filled living spaces that look onto a courtyard. More about WeStudio and Made insert mezzanines beneath gabled roof of Porto house
A blue-painted steel mezzanine provides space for additional bedrooms beneath the original timber roof of this narrow terraced house in Vallès, Spain, which was modernised by Vallribera Arquitectes. More about Vallribera Arquitectes adds bright-blue mezzanine to renovated Spanish house