Tasked with designing a house that doesn't take over its whole site, Swiss architect Christian von Düring created a timber-clad upper storey that straddles two smaller ground-level structures (+ slideshow). More
Photo essay: Canadian photographer Christopher Forsyth has spent the last seven months shooting the subterranean stations that make up Montreal's four-line metro system (+ slideshow). More
British artist Steve Messam has installed a weight-bearing bridge across a stream in the UK's Lake District using 20,000 sheets of bright red paper (+ slideshow). More
A concrete staircase with a granite surface is suspended inside the atrium of this house in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which is divided into two parts connected by a bridge (+ slideshow). More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Frame publishers to offer readers the chance to win one of five new books that explore the use of craftsmanship in "postdigital" design. More
To celebrate opening our New York office, we've gathered together some of the most impressive examples of American residential architecture from the pages of Dezeen and added them to a new Pinterest board.