Straight walls are in short supply at this house in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, which curls around the edges of a curving cobbled courtyard. More
The Brinery is a home fermentation vessel designed by a team of Royal College of Art students to kickstart interest in the "forgotten" process of preserving vegetables. More
Architect Rob Hootsmans has renovated a 1970s courthouse in the Dutch city of Zwolle and added a "transparent and approachable" extension featuring sawtoothed glass facades. More
Concrete surfaces, hand-painted teal tiles and brass details all feature in this Melbourne cafe, designed by local studio Biasol to pay tribute to the Greek delicatessens that could be found in the city in the 1950s. More
These photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li show the monumental form of IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art, eight years after the building completed in Doha, Qatar. More
The bases of these tables by Brussels designer Alain Gilles are made from bent metal frameworks that resemble crinoline petticoats. More
Huge arched doorways lead to a suite of cosy wood-lined reading nooks in this children's library in Shanghai, designed by Muxin Studio to be like a "giant toy". More
This robust concrete house in the Swiss town of Savièse steps down the side of a hill and contains rooms lining internal patios that look out towards the nearby mountains. More
Spanish designer Marta Colmenero has created a set of illustrations that capture the concrete forms of brutalist architecture across the globe. More
We've rounded up the most eye-catching homeware from Dezeen's archives for our new Pinterest board – featuring Scholten & Baijings' coloured glassware for Hay and Piet Hein Eek's vibrant oxidised copper wallpaper. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
This stone villa in Arizona by Los Angeles architect Marwan Al-Sayed was conceived as a succession of interior and exterior spaces that are organised around a central courtyard. More
Dutch studios NL Architects and XVW Architectuur have renovated one of the largest apartment buildings in the Netherlands, restoring the repetitive gridded facades of the 1960s block but leaving the flats bare for residents to customise. More
Architecture firm +ADD has used ash louvers and exposed ceilings to provide a bright workspace for Paperless Post's new headquarters in New York. More
Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson used a combination of mirrors and coloured screens to create different abstract scenes for Wayne McGregor's Tree of Codes ballet. More
A geometric staircase and eclectic furniture feature alongside wooden surfaces in this apartment in northern Italy, which was renovated by Italian office Jab Studio and boasts views of the mountains. More
A spiralling steel staircase connects the living spaces inside this timber and glass extension to a semi-detached property in Hackney, north London. More
This week on Dezeen, IKEA revealed its new furniture that can be assembled without screws and BIG launched its own in-house engineering department. More
Global design consultancy IDEO has created a concept for a four-pod self-driving car that could be shared by everyone in the neighbourhood. More
The limited floor area of this Montreal dwelling required Canadian firm La Shed Architecture to lay out the home's social spaces on two distinct levels. More
American studio Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture + Design has created a light-coloured micro dwelling with cut-out corners and a sloped roof, aiming to demonstrate that a "small house need not be a claustrophobic, monotonous box". More