Opinion: the conversion of old industrial buildings into "creative office space" has proven so successful in LA, even galleries like Hauser Wirth & Schimmel are getting in on the act, says Mimi Zeiger. More
Architect David Chipperfield has released details of his plans for the Eero Saarinen-designed US Embassy in Mayfair, London, which his firm will convert into a 137-room hotel. More
Kengo Kuma's firm has converted a concrete office building into a showroom for a Japanese textile company, and tethered it to the ground with carbon fibres to provide earthquake protection (+ slideshow). More
Kengo Kuma and Associates has built an art centre with an intricate aluminium-moulded facade at a former cotton mill in China, which has been converted into a shop and office complex (+ slideshow). More
Russian architects Asya Baranova and Nikolay Pokorsky have transformed a Soviet-era furniture store in St Petersburg into a vegetarian cafe, featuring raw materials and an assortment of plants (+ slideshow). More
Belgian studio GAFPA has slotted a timber-framed house inside the steel skeleton of a disused stonemason's atelier in Ghent, and transformed a former outbuilding into a walled garden (+ slideshow). More
Threefold Architects has combined a Victorian workshop and an old shop unit in east London to create a home and gallery for an art curator (+ slideshow). More
Four matching staircases lead up to the rooftop terrace of this Algarve hotel by Portuguese studio PAr, offering guests views out towards a nearby lagoon (+ slideshow). More
Andrew Simpson Architects has converted a red brick warehouse in Melbourne into a loft-style residence, with separate entrances for different members of the resident family (+ slideshow). More
Behind the aged stone walls of an old tannery building in northwest Spain, Arrokabe Arquitectos has created a small events venue that opens onto a neighbouring park (+ slideshow). More
HHF Architects and Sadar + Vuga have won a competition to adapt and reconstruct Montenegro's Dom Revolucije, a monument to Socialist revolution that has lain unfinished and derelict for almost 30 years. More
Over 20 years after artist and sculptor Anish Kapoor moved into an old dairy factory in south London, Caseyfierro Architects has transformed the entire street block into a series of studios, workshops and galleries (+ slideshow). More
UK studio Intervention Architecture has converted and extended a dilapidated Victorian coach house near Birmingham, England, to create a live-work space for a writer. More
Switzerland-based art gallery Hauser & Wirth has opened a large outpost in Los Angeles, designed by local firm Creative Space with consultation from New York-based Selldorf Architects (+ slideshow). More
Fibre-cement shingles cover this gabled barn in northeast France, which GENS: Association Libérale d'Architecture has converted into five apartments (+ slideshow). More
Portuguese studio Aboim Inglez Arquitectos has converted and extended a century-old farmhouse near Lisbon to create a series of holiday homes overlooking the Alentejo plains (+ slideshow). More
New York-based Leeser Architecture has inserted angular and brightly coloured stairwells into an ageing industrial building in Brooklyn to create a vibrant office for creative professionals and entrepreneurs (+ slideshow). More
Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration of a 19th-century room at the Park Avenue Armory, a cultural building in Manhattan with interiors by Tiffany & Co's first design director Louis C Tiffany (+ slideshow). More
London studio Liddicoat & Goldhill has remodelled a derelict barn in Kent, England, to create a home featuring mechanically operated doors and a staircase that wraps around a chimney (+ movie). More
Architects office McGonigle McGrath has been granted planning permission to transform a heritage-listed war memorial building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a boutique hotel. More