Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Hong Kong design and research group Rural Urban Framework has been awarded the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize for humanitarian architecture (+ slideshow). More
Bulgarian designer Petar Dimitrov has created a pair of lightweight inflatable snowshoes that can be packed into two bags (+ slideshow). More
This visitors centre for a mountain in South Korea by Namu Architects comprises a pair of gabled buildings with vertical cladding and windows, intended to reference the trunks of tall trees that surround the plot (+ slideshow). More
Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has spent 10 years renovating an old mill in France's Dordogne region into a pair of holiday homes that visitors can rent (+ slideshow). More
Feature: visitors to the first Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opens later this week, will discover a raft of architectural treasures that are often overshadowed by the skyscrapers and institutions the city is famous for (+ slideshow). More
This Tokyo house and office for a funeral director has been split into three sections so that two can be removed later, in case a planned road gets built through the site (+ slideshow). More
Hong Kong studio Rural Urban Framework covered this new primary school toilet block in mirrored tiles so that it reflects its surroundings, helping to camouflage the building (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2015: UK design studio Fredrikson Stallard has produced a collection of sculptural furniture – including a sofa that looks like a chunk of rock – to mark its 10th anniversary (+ slideshow). More
Beijing architect Cao Pu has created a compact hostel in a traditional hutong courtyard that gets even smaller when its front wall is rolled back to provide extra external space (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid has created a seven-storey office block in Moscow for the city's growing IT and creative sectors, with off-set floor plates and a dramatic black-and-white atrium (+ slideshow). More
The Vancouver Art Gallery has unveiled a conceptual design for its new building by Herzog & de Meuron, featuring a series of stacked volumes clad in wood (+ slideshow). More
NASA – the US space agency that announced the discovery of flowing water on Mars this week – has chosen a winner in its contest to design proposals for 3D-printed housing on the red planet (+ slideshow). More
Images have emerged of Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery – designed by London architecture studio Caruso St John in a row of converted and extended theatre warehouses. More
London office Delvendahl Martin Architects has merged and extended a pair of Victorian semi-detached houses in Oxford to create a new double-fronted home for one family (+ slideshow). More
Architecture firm AZPML has completed its £750 million overhaul of Birmingham New Street railway station in the UK – but co-founder Alejandro Zaera-Polo says the result "could have been much better". More
Interaction designer Daniel Bjorkman has created a conceptual adaptive logo and visual identity for Swedish art school Akademin Valand (+ slideshow). More
British artist Lucy Sparrow is filling an adults-only shop in London's Soho district with sex toys, porn magazines and bondage gear all made of felt. More
London Design Festival 2015: the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland invited more than 20 designers and craftspeople to contribute to its Ó exhibition at Tent London (+ slideshow). More
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled plans for a trio of housing towers in Ho Chi Minh City linked by aerial bridges and shielded from the harsh tropical sunlight by swathes of bamboo (+ slideshow). More
Japanese studio Schemata has designed a shop with hanging rails that lower from the ceiling in Daikanyama, Tokyo, for sportswear brand Descente Blanc (+ slideshow). More