Bags of rice and bottled condiments are displayed on simple plywood units inside this former Tokyo greengrocers that has been converted into a tiny rice shop, cafe and a home for the proprietor (+ slideshow). More
A large circular mirror reflects a tree planted in the centre of this Osaka cafe by Japanese studio Ninkipen! (+ slideshow). More
Graphic wallpaper by Eley Kishimoto creates the illusion of a three-dimensional grid across the walls and floors of this bakery in south-east London (+ slideshow). More
A veil of smoke clouds the window of this jewellery shop in Athens, behind which Kois Associated Architects has installed display cases modelled on trees (+ slideshow). More
Exposed brickwork, unfinished plywood and a wall of pivoting metal doors all feature inside the new Beijing office of Chinese architecture firm Spark (+ slideshow). More
A mixture of transparent and translucent glazing creates varying levels of privacy inside this dimly lit office created for a mortgage broker in Melbourne (+ slideshow). More
Opinion: why did the Postmodernist design movement flounder at the end of the 1980s? Will Wiles finds the answer in popular Hollywood movies. More
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has added an aluminium structure inside a 19th-century dance hall in Copenhagen, transforming the building into an office for the Association of Danish Law Firms (+ slideshow). More
Parisian office Modal Architecture has created a bright white artist's studio with a wall of golden plywood cupboards behind the thick stone walls of a 17th-century barn in Brittany (+ slideshow). More
Architecture studio NAAD has gutted a 100-year-old house in Kyoto and re-skinned the interior in plywood to create a temporary dwelling that is designed to look incomplete (+ slideshow). More
Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has designed and curated an exhibition at the city's Spritmuseum dedicated to the culture of making and drinking beer (+ slideshow). More
Homeware retailer Made.com has opened a showroom in London's Soho, featuring a shopfront based on a pin-art toy and a series of domestic sets combined with full-scale video projections (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta has renovated a Brooklyn warehouse to create a studio for Cuban-American artist José Parlá, whose murals adorn the lobbies of One World Trade Center and the Barclays Center (+ slideshow). More
Part of OMA's colossal De Rotterdam building is now home to the Dutch city's municipal offices, with an interior laid out as a "vertical city" by a trio of designers including Studio Makkink & Bey (+ slideshow). More
Interior design studio Hidden Fortress created a boxed-in floating staircase at the centre of this homeware store in Berlin, painting the outside black to contrast with the pale wood interior (+ slideshow). More
Skincare brand Aesop's new Hamburg store by Belgian studio Vincent Van Duysen Architects features ladder-like shelving made from oak and blackened steel, and a large stone sink (+ slideshow). More
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has covered the interior of Camper's Milan store in a grid of pale ply that stretches from floor to ceiling (+ slideshow). More
Diners are invited to imagine mid 20th-century Bombay at this restaurant in a former railway transit shed close to King's Cross station in London (+ slideshow). More
Japanese studio Movedesign has converted an old timber-framed house with parquet floors and exposed wooden beams into a bakery in downtown Fukuoka (+ slideshow). More
Within the intricately moulded interiors of this Parisian office block, architect Estelle Vincent has inserted a trio of boxy timber meeting spaces – one of which is can be exited down a pale blue slide (+ slideshow). More