Dezeen promotion: Architecture practice BSA has created a "diverse spectrum" of workspaces within a disused warehouse in Saarland, Germany, as the office of ceramics company Villeroy & Boch. More
A colourful geometric wall provides a strong contrast to this otherwise stark sake bar and brewery in Brooklyn's Industry City, designed by local studio Carpenter + Mason. More
Royal College of Art graduate Moying Huang has designed an ecologically friendly crematorium that would use liquid cremation to eliminate emissions from traditional incineration processes. More
US firms StudioWTA and ASH NYC have transformed a church, rectory, convent, and a school in New Orleans into boutique accommodation. More
Grimshaw is transforming its adaptable 1970s Herman Miller factory, designed by its founder Nicholas Grimshaw, into the Locksbrook Campus for Bath Spa University. More
Charred wood, lead shingles and molten glass are among the materials used by artist Anders Ruhwald to transform a vacant Detroit apartment building into a public art installation that acts as a memorial. More
OMA New York is turning a historic post office in Houston, Texas into a complex featuring arts and music venues, workspaces and "one of the world's largest rooftop parks and farms". More
Wenink Holtkamp Architecten has converted De Lakfabriek, a 20th-century factory, into 25 industrial apartments in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands. More
New York architecture firm ODA has transformed a landmarked factory in Brooklyn's Dumbo overlooking the city's East River into an office building fronted by a huge glistening glass facade. More
A roughly plastered wall curves over the dining area of this restaurant in Toronto, designed by local studio Odami. More
Canadian firm Mason Studio has designed this hotel in Toronto to feature an abundance of local flavour, including decorative archways and a nod to the city's famous albino squirrels. More
Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has transformed the former Pharmaceutical Institute at the Old Technical College in Stockholm into light-filled apartments that feature historic decor details.
Perkins+Will has overhauled the North American headquarters of consumer goods company Unilever, with new communal areas designed to help employees forget they're in a suburban office park. More
Dutch architecture practice Eklund Terbeek has developed a spacious loft-style apartment for a family of four inside a school gymnasium in Rotterdam, which is over 100 years old. More
A large, steel sphere sourced from a shuttered paper mill has been repurposed by Seattle firm Mutuus Studio as an installation in a waterfront park in the Pacific Northwest. More
Ornate gold columns and chequered marble floors nod to the past life of Danish furniture brand Paustian's latest showroom, which has opened in a building renovated by Aarstiderne Arkitekte. More
Bjarke Ingels' firm has created a "retail laboratory" for French department store Galeries Lafayette inside an art-deco bank on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. More
A Bridgehampton bungalow featuring a redwood forest planted by television personality Martha Stewart has been redesigned as a bohemian hideaway for summer beach seekers. More
Architecture Cotugno Thiry has transformed a 19th-century brewery building in Belgium into La Bouteillerie, a simple house with rugged brick walls. More
Veld has clad a former blacksmith's workshop in zinc panels and whitewashed its blackened interior to convert it into a home extension in Belgium. More