Pietri Architects has driven a deep pink ravine through the heart of this apartment complex in southern France, creating a protected rooftop garden for residents (+ slideshow). More
CES 2015: Taiwanese company Gogoro has revealed what it describes as the "world's first Smartscooter", with a network of battery-swapping stations that could allow its power cells to be changed in just six seconds (+ movie). More
Comments update: a top heavy concrete house beside a Chilean lagoon proved unexpectedly divisive this week, with readers describing it as both "beautiful" and a "brick sh*thouse". More
News: the competition-winning design by Herzog & de Meuron and Hassell to revamp Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station is unlikely to go ahead, according to the state government. More
CES 2015: German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its vision for the future of motoring with an autonomous pod-like vehicle designed to function as a communal living room on wheels (+ slideshow). More
CES 2015: the makers of the first popular 3D-printing pen 3Doodler have unveiled a smaller device, which weighs just 50 grams. More
A bamboo framework filled with plants surrounds the brick core of this sanitation facility designed by H&P Architects for a school in rural Vietnam (+ slideshow). More
CES 2015: San Francisco designer Yves Behar has unveiled a "sculptural" television with a curved screen for Samsung at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (+ slideshow). More
An irregular quatrefoil-shaped bowl made of maroon concrete is submerged into one side of this skatepark in northern France designed by architecture studios Planda and Constructo (+ slideshow). More
Lengths of brightly coloured garden hose are arranged to resemble a classical fountain in a work by artist Bertrand Lavier currently installed in the grounds of London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery (+ slideshow). More
Forty-two identical windows puncture the exterior of this house in Japan by Tato Architects, which also features a staircase that leads onto a piece of furniture (+ slideshow). More
Dutch designer Tim van de Weerd has created two steel plant pots resembling "creatures" with root-like legs. More