Faceted concrete bridge by 2b Architectes links a metro station with a forest
This concrete footbridge spans a road in Lausanne, Switzerland, to connect a metro station with the scenic Sauvabelin Forest (+ slideshow). More
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V&A presents extreme footwear in Shoes: Pleasure and Pain exhibition
From opulent royal foot apparel to dangerously high stilettos, a new exhibition at London's V&A museum explores the "human obsession with shoes" over 2,000 years (+ slideshow). More
Timber-clad home by Schjelderup Trondahl sits on a hill overlooking Oslo
Vibrant green-yellow frames accentuate the windows and doors of this spruce-clad house built on a hillside with views over Oslo (+ slideshow). More
Rainbow Chapel by Coordination Asia is a multi-coloured wedding venue in Shanghai
Couples with a love of stained glass can now get married in a kaleidoscopic wedding chapel next to a Shanghai glass museum (+ slideshow). More
Casa Jasmina combines Italian design with connected home technologies
Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has curated an apartment inside an old industrial building in Turin, Italy, bringing together various designs to create the "open-source connected home of the future" (+ slideshow). More
Atelier Yokyok installs vaulted string tunnels in a Gothic cloister garden
Thin blue strings are stretched between arch-shaped frames to create tunnels across the cloister garden of a French cathedral (+ slideshow). More
DuPont updates collection of Corian bathroom basins
Dezeen promotion: UK materials brand DuPont has renewed and extended its range of Corian bathroom basins, and photographed them in styled environments for a new publication titled Portraits of Life (+ slideshow). More
Glass and timber rectangles create chequered facade for Tokyo house by Takeshi Shikauchi
Rectangular panels of Japanese cedar and glass create a chequered effect on the facade of this Tokyo residence (+ slideshow). More
Nameless Architecture reinterprets the traditional Korean door using resin and silicone
The timber frame and paper panes of the traditional Korean door were replaced with a resin grid and flexible silicone for this installation at a Seoul gallery (+ slideshow). More
Shoreditch office by Piercy & Company has a restored facade and a golden behind
Architecture studio Piercy & Company has resurrected a fire-ravaged building as offices in London's Shoreditch, reinstating the ornate facade at the front and adding a faceted brass structure at the rear (+ slideshow). More
Studio Fink covers Italian art museum courtyard with brightly coloured astroturf
Sections of Renaissance paintings are mounted onto angular planters across the colourful temporary landscape installed at a Bergamo gallery by Studio Fink (+ slideshow). More
Pulkabacken house has a sloping roof that doubles as a sledding hill
The roof of this Stockholm house by Streetmonkey Architects turns into a ramp for children to sled on when it snows (+ slideshow). More
London Atelier reorganises Victorian house to create multi-level apartment
UK studio London Atelier has updated the interior of a dilapidated terraced property, adding a new staircase, and a folding ladder for access to the roof (+ slideshow). More
Carsten Höller transforms London's South Bank into a playground
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has filled the Hayward Gallery and terraces on London's South Bank with interactive installations, including a pair of spiral slides (+ slideshow). More
Assemble's Brutalist Playground is a climbable landscape of ice-cream-coloured shapes
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble has teamed up with British artist Simon Terrill to create full-size foam replicas of playground designs from architecture's Brutalist era (+ slideshow). More
BIG unveils replacement for Foster's Two World Trade Center design
BIG has unveiled designs for Two World Trade Center, confirming that the skyscraper's original architect, Foster + Partners, has been ousted (+ slideshow). More
Mountain View House nestles against a hillside in the Austrian Alps
Two house-shaped rooms project out from the facade of this three-storey residence by SoNo Arhitekti, which nestles into a hillside near an Austrian Alpine village (+ slideshow). More
Höweler + Yoon's Bridge House accommodates three generations of a family
The trio of stacked blocks that make up this Virginia residence by Höweler + Yoon Architecture are arranged in a bridge-like formation, providing three generations of a family with separate living spaces (+ slideshow). More
Guide to Cannibalism suggests ways to eat humans
Graduate shows 2015: intended to promote eating humans, the Guide to Cannibalism provides recipes for cooking meat, and also comes with kitchenware embedded with real hair (+ slideshow). More
OOPEAA completes Finland's first high-rise wooden apartment building
Prefabricated modules of cross-laminated timber were "plugged in like Lego pieces" to build this eight-storey apartment block in Finland – one of the first examples of its type in the world (+ slideshow). More