This Victorian-era villa in Sydney has been renovated and extended to meet the needs of a family with an extensive art collection, while a concrete plunge pool caters for its grown-up children (+ slideshow). More
Students behind "the world's first solar-powered family car" have redesigned the vehicle to run for more than 1,000 kilometres on a single charge and produce enough excess energy to power a TV or washing machine (+ slideshow). More
Marlene Uldschmidt's extension to an old farmhouse in Portugal's Algarve region features windows that cover entire walls and a paved rooftop promenade that affords views of the rural landscape (+ slideshow). More
Ennead Architects has been selected to design a research centre near Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, which will promote study and ecological tourism in the remote region (+ slideshow). More
Students and faculty members at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have designed a tiny house to help address the city's low-cost housing shortage. More
Graduate shows 2015: airport runways are raised above the streets and waterways of a new Stockholm city district in this conceptual proposal by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Alex Sutton (+ slideshow). More
This steeply slanted platform by architects John Lin and Olivier Ottervaere forms a roadside market and elevated viewing point for a Chinese town being rebuilt after two earthquakes (+ slideshow). More
Atmospheric photographs of a Swedish lake provided the reference material for this Hong Kong hotel, which Design Systems has lined with flecked marble and textured concrete (+ slideshow). More
The concrete volumes that make up this house on Sydney's seafront are arranged in a bridging formation to frame sculptures belonging to its art-collector residents (+ slideshow). More
Flower beds and vegetable gardens cover the rooftops of this mixed-use property in Halifax, Canada, designed by architect Susan Fitzgerald as a space for her to live and work in (+ slideshow). More
An old submarine base in Bordeaux provided the site for this docklands housing complex by Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés, where homes and gardens are arranged on either side of a glazed atrium (+ slideshow). More
Dutch architect Shift has applied translucent cyan, magenta and yellow film to Bernard Tschumi's glass pavilion in Groningen to create a temporary installation of shifting colours (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2015: University of Brighton graduate Ellie Birkhead has created a series of brushes with unusual shapes for cleaning specific objects (+ slideshow). More
Architecture studio Adamo-Faiden has transformed the vacant roof of a 15-storey block in Buenos Aires into a home for a young couple, by installing a glazed pavilion-like structure surrounded by plants (+ slideshow). More
Luis Vidal + Architects has added stripes of photoluminescent paint to the facades of Ibiza's only public hospital, so it faintly glows after dark (+ slideshow). More
Montreal studio La Shed Architecture has used the foundations of a demolished 1990s bungalow to create a new timber-clad home featuring split-level floors and an integrated car port (+ slideshow). More
WASA Studio has overhauled an old retail building to create a new facility for film and video students at New York's Pratt Institute (+ slideshow). More
The work of architects including Diébédo Francis Kéré, Heinrich Wolff and SelgasCano features in a new exhibition about African design open the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More
Architecture firms Terroir and Kim Utzon Arkitekter have created a new building for the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden, featuring a jagged facade of glass and aluminium (+ slideshow). More
British architect Amanda Levete will attempt to recreate the experience of being in a forest with this year's MPavilion – the annual project billed as Australia's answer to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). More