Casa Rana is a colourful foster home in India for HIV-positive children
A bamboo screen surrounds the five colourful volumes that make up this foster home for 15 HIV-positive children in a village in India (+ slideshow). More
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StudioMilou converts Singapore city hall into national art gallery
StudioMilou has merged Singapore's former city hall and courthouse to create a new national art gallery, with a sculptural entrance sheltered by a curving canopy made from golden filigree and glass (+ slideshow). More
Burning Man "needed urban design because it's a city" says founder Larry Harvey
Later this week, 70,000 people will converge on a temporary city in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man founder Larry Harvey told Dezeen about the "stunning achievement" of creating a high-density, car-free festival in a remote and inhospitable landscape (+ slideshow + transcript). More
John Pawson to convert Jaffa convent and hospital into W's first hotel in Israel
British designer John Pawson has unveiled his plans to convert a former convent and hospital in Tel Aviv's Jaffa port into a hotel and apartment complex for the W hotel brand (+ slideshow). More
University graduates design and build cabins on Navajo reservation in Utah
Graduate students of a Colorado university design-build programme have completed a pair of cabins on the Navajo reservation made of rusted steel and reclaimed barn wood (+ slideshow). More
House in Tomigusuku by Rhythmdesign features 36 openings across three facades
A grid of near-identical doors and windows punctures all three visible facades of this seemingly cube-shaped house in Okinawa by architecture studio Rhythmdesign (+ slideshow). More
Orée launches copper Stylograph ballpoint that digitally records handwitten notes
Maison&Objet 2015: French technology retailer Orée is launching a ballpoint pen that can digitally record and store notes and sketches made in a companion notebook (+ slideshow). More
Glass and steel office by Issei Suma inserted into century-old Japanese cow barn
Behind the crumbling exterior of a 100-year-old cowshed in Japan's Tokushima Prefecture, architect Issei Suma has inserted a glass and steel office for a computing company (+ slideshow). More
Concrete painter's studio by Felipe Assadi nestles into a rocky hillside on the Chilean seafront
This concrete painting studio by Santiago studio Felipe Assadi Architects is half-submerged in the cliffside gardens of a house on the Chilean coastline (+ slideshow). More
MPGMB creates pedestals inspired by work of Postmodern master Ettore Sottsass
Pomo summer: Montreal designers Marie-Pier Guilmain and Maud Beauchamp of MPGMB have created a trio of stacked pedestals influenced by the work of Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass (+ slideshow). More
Ross Barney Architects wraps a Chicago rail station in a perforated tube
US firm Ross Barney Architects has completed a transit station for an emerging Chicago neighbourhood, featuring a tubular structure made of stainless steel and polycarbonate panels (+ slideshow). More
Nozomi Nakabayashi creates writer's hut on stilts in the Dorset woods
Sheltered beneath an oversized roof, this tiny timber cabin by AA graduate Nozomi Nakabayashi stands on stilts among the oak trees of a wood in Dorset, England (+ slideshow). More
Vitrô Arquitetura exposes structural concrete pillars within 1960s São Paulo apartment
Brazilian firm Vitrô Arquitetura has renovated a 1960s apartment in São Paulo, revealing structural concrete pillars and brickwork walls (+ slideshow). More
Three white boxes extend into the garden of Paritzki & Liani's T/A House
The three parallel boxes that form this house in Tel Aviv all culminate in a full-height glazed wall facing the garden, while large square apertures puncture the various side walls (+ slideshow). More
Dift transforms former Ghent office space into WATT loft apartment
Belgian creative agency Dift has designed the interiors for a loft apartment housed in a former office space in the centre of Ghent (+ slideshow). More
UTAA extends South Korean children's centre with "a house within a house"
A house-shaped extension protrudes from the side of this children's centre by Seoul studio UTAA, providing a playful space for reading that faces out onto a garden (+ slideshow). More
Matsuyama house by TTArchitects features dedicated spaces for watching fireworks
A requirement for this house in Matsuyama, Japan, was for views of the city's summer firework display, so architect Teruki Takayoshi added a balcony, a roof terrace and a two-storey-high window (+ slideshow). More
John Short rediscovers New York's lost creative spaces
Photo essay: London-based photographer John Short was determined to depict the death of New York's creative scene, but his images of its once-legendary arts venues proved that the spaces are far from "lost" (+ slideshow). More
Kris Lamba's RV1 Carbon Chair is made from a single carbon-fibre sheet
British designer Kris Lamba has folded a 20-metre-long piece of carbon fibre into a chair that facilitates different sitting positions (+ slideshow). More
HÛT uses pre-rusted steel for extension to Victorian brick house in London
This oxidised-steel extension to an end-of-terrace Victorian house in east London peeks over the top of the adjacent brick boundary wall, which is interrupted by a matching steel gate (+ slideshow). More