Office Mian Ye wraps a Maryland home in wood battens made of knotty cedar
This family home in Maryland by Office Mian Ye is sheathed in a wooden brise-soleil, enabling views of the landscape while also offering privacy (+ slideshow). More
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Photo-realistic renderings depict an imaginary house in a wild seaside landscape
Visualisation studio Bloomimages has created a series of hyper-realistic renderings depicting a home and studio for an artist in the ageing concrete structures of an old shipyard on the edge of the North Sea (+ slideshow). More
Wonmin Park adds resin table and bookcase to Haze furniture series
Korean artist Wonmin Park is exhibiting a new table and bookcase from his resin furniture series at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. More
Pitsou Kedem brings together translucent, transparent and opaque materials for family house
Concrete slabs, translucent glass planks and frameless window walls offer varying degrees of privacy for this house in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan by Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More
NK Guy documents 16 years of creating and destroying Burning Man's temporary "city"
Photo essay: Canadian photographer NK Guy first went to Burning Man festival in 1998, and has returned to the Nevada desert each year since to shoot the artworks that spring up then vanish just as quickly (+ slideshow). More
Archiplan Studio blends old and new for restoration of early 20th-century Italian villa
Archiplan Studio has rejuvenated the interior of a villa in northern Italy, reviving original wallpapers and furnishings, and pairing them with contemporary details (+ slideshow). More
Joseph Joseph aims to reinvent microwave cooking with M-Cuisine collection
London kitchenware brand Joseph Joseph has developed a collection of containers for microwave cooking that can be used to prepare full meals rather than just heating up leftovers (+ slideshow). More
ODOS Architects creates introverted house on "undevelopable" site in Dublin
Designed to look like a garden wall, this seemingly windowless brick house in Dublin was created by ODOS Architects to reference an orchard that once occupied the site (+ slideshow). More
Golden aluminium featuring cube patterns clads walls of university building by AVDK
Aluminium sheets perforated with a geometric pattern create angled facets around the windows of this university student centre in Kortrijk (+ slideshow). More
Stereo Architektur builds wooden "house within a house" inside Basel factory
Swiss architecture studio Stereo Architektur has completed its first project: a wooden structure that transforms a former Basel machine factory into a shared working space (+ slideshow). More
H&P Architects sources recycled materials to build Re-ainbow community shelter in Vietnam
Vietnamese studio H&P Architects has used leftover construction materials to build a multicoloured community building in the grounds of a stadium in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province (+ slideshow). More
Wooden pavilions by Lake Flato create an education centre in the Texas landscape
This visitors centre and education pavilion in Texas was designed by Lake Flato Architects to be one of the most sustainable structures in the state, but also to reference its Southwestern context (+ slideshow). More
Holzhaus am Auerbach features projecting terraces that extend the living space outdoors
Raised terraces cantilever out from both sides of this Alpine retreat by architects Christine Arnhard and Markus Eck, allowing occupants to extend their dining room into the garden (+ slideshow). More
Top-heavy ballet school by Y+M Design Office features an oversized roof
This ballet studio in Japan by Y+M Design Office is topped by a large pointed roof with curving eaves and is lifted above the ground by a small cement-rendered podium (+ slideshow). More
Vo Trong Nghia unveils tree-covered university campus for Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled designs for a verdant university campus in Ho Chi Minh City, featuring tree-covered rooftops, balconies and a plant-filled courtyard (+ slideshow). More
Condom packaging based on different vegetable girths to help choose the correct fit
Graduate shows 2015: Taiwan designer Guan-Hao Pan has created a set of condom packages modelled on phallic vegetables, which users can hold to determine the correct girth for their contraceptive sheath (+ slideshow). More
Greek Orthodox chapel in Cyprus by Michail Georgiou features a two-humped profile
Architect Michail Georgiou merged two forms typical in Byzantine church architecture to create the unusual curved shape of this chapel in Cyprus (+ slideshow). More
Vipp partners with Annemette Kissow to launch first ceramics line
Homeware retailer Vipp has partnered with Danish ceramicist Annemette Kissow to launch a seven-piece breakfast range (+ slideshow). More
Singapore mosque by Formwerkz Architects features latticework based on Islamic patterns
Singapore studio Formwerkz Architects took references from traditional Islamic design to create the intricately patterned and moulded surfaces of this mosque (+ slideshow). More
Postmodern architecture: TV-am television studios, London by Terry Farrell
Pomo summer: as one of the few architects that didn't shy away from being labelled a Postmodernist, Terry Farrell is responsible for some of the UK's first and most important examples of the style. In the latest instalment from our Postmodernism series, we look at his television studios for TV-am, which featured a Japanese temple, a Mesopotamian ziggurat and 11 rooftop eggcups (+ slideshow). More