Canada-based architect Reza Aliabadi has completed a home made up of vastly different halves at a lakefront site on the outskirts of Toronto (+ slideshow). More
Architect Silvia Allori has overhauled a 1970s flat in Florence to create her own home and workspace, which features furniture that folds down from the walls and a shiny gold curtain that hides mess (+ slideshow). More
Sliding windows make up the facade of this apartment building in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, allowing residents to expose their living spaces to the elements (+ slideshow). More
Music: a boy is seduced and then poisoned by a "beautiful mutant flower" that turns him into a tree and forces him to leave his girlfriend in Péter Vácz's video for James' Dear John track (+ movie). More
An old bookstore has been stripped back to its concrete foundations to create a minimal space for Swiss eyewear brand Viu's first store in Austria (+ slideshow). More
Romanian architect Vlad Rusu has resurrected a "cultural palace" that was originally built in the 1930s but has sat in ruin for 20 years after being ravaged by fire (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen: architecture and design stories about this year's summer Olympics flooded out as the event commenced in Rio de Janeiro this week, while Kanye West hit the headlines after declaring his desire to work with furniture giant Ikea. More
World Heritage Corb: long before he built the famed Cité Radieuse in Marseille, French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier explored similar housing principles for the 1932 Immeuble Clarté in Geneva – one of 17 of his buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list (+ slideshow). More
Italian design studio Supercake has created a customisable shelving system for growing and displaying plants, which is aimed at people living in rented accommodation (+ slideshow). More
Los Angeles architecture firm Studio Pali Fekete has used double-sided sticky tape to affix the cladding panels to this home for an executive of adhesives company 3M (+ slideshow). More
Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). More
This cedar-clad dwelling in Portland, Oregon, by local studio Beebe Skidmore Architects serves as a modern interpretation of the historic Craftsman-style bungalows found throughout the city (+ slideshow). More
Diller Scofidio + Renfro co-founder Elizabeth Diller has hit out at New York's spate of luxury skyscrapers, saying that the city is at risk of being "consumed by the dollar" (+ interview). More
Italian design collective Nucleo has tweaked its popular design for a grass armchair that grows over time, relaunching it with a crowdfunding campaign (+ slideshow). More
New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed a new medical centre for Columbia University that features a vivid orange "study cascade" occupying the whole south facade (+ slideshow). More
Rio 2016: explore the stadiums and arenas poised to host events during this month's Olympic games in these images by Brazilian photographer Leonardo Finotti (+ slideshow). More
From a sculptural juice bar clad in wooden slats to a deliberately unfinished Tokyo apartment, plywood interiors are a firm favourite with Dezeen readers. We're counting down the top 10 most-pinned plywood projects as chosen by our Pinterest followers (+ slideshow). More
This compact house was prefabricated in a factory near the Uruguayan capital, before being transported 200 kilometres by lorry to its destination – a picturesque olive grove surrounded by rolling hills (+ slideshow). More
Rio 2016: Adidas and fashion designer Stella McCartney have revealed the outfits to be worn by Team GB athletes during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics this evening. More
Swiss artist Felice Varini has used brightly coloured paintwork to transform the rooftop of Le Corbusier's iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille into a huge optical illusion (+ slideshow). More