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Dutch Design Week 2013: Dutch firm Bierman Henket architecten has added an extension shaped like a rugby ball on top of a neo-classical museum in the city of Zwolle (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's nearly completed Pérez Art Museum Miami leads this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, which also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 181 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

A hotel in Munich is stretched, twisted, distorted and exploded in this series of 88 manipulated photographs by Spanish photographer Victor Enrich (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Czech studio A1 Architects covered the walls of this cafe in Prague with a tactile mixture of black plaster, coal and pieces of straw, in a modern take on the clay plasters used inside traditional Japanese tea houses (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A house in Singapore featuring a cantilevered concrete room was popular last week, so we've created a new Pinterest board that collects together staggering cantilevered buildings, walkways and structures. See our new Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

Milan 2014: Studio Job has revisited its own archive to create a unique wallpaper range for Dutch brand NLXL, which debuts in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

Loyn & Co Architects has completed a home in a protected area of Welsh countryside, with old vernacular buildings sitting alongside modern additions featuring bare concrete and rusted steel (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: architect Anssi Lassila has installed two huts outside the Finnish Pavilion at the Venice biennale – the first was built from spruce by a Finnish carpenter while the second was put together from bamboo by a team in China. (more...) View the full article

News: London architecture firms David Chipperfield and Karakusevic Carson have been granted planning permission for two hexagonal towers on an estate in the city's borough of Hackney (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2014: Roger Arquer has updated an object from his childhood to create Nut Hammer – a nutcracker with a soft silicone head that fits over the end of a hammer – for Danish design brand Menu (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The walls of this house in Poland by Kropka Studio are covered in gabion baskets filled with the same local limestone used to build nearby castles and churches (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: figures released this week reveal that One World Trade Center is now the most expensive skyscraper of all time, having cost more than twice as much as the world's tallest building. (more…) View the full article

La Shed Architecture has renovated an old residence in a Montreal neighbourhood, adding a roof terrace flanked by corrugated metal and a bright red-orange staircase (+ slideshow). (more…)

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a product/furniture designer at Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, who designed the Shaker dining chair for De La Espada (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New Zealand winemaker Brancott Estate and designer Dror Benshetrit to give one reader the chance to win two tickets to an exclusive talk in New York City on 21 October 2015 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects have all been shortlisted to design a major new museum in Budapest, which will be built alongside cultural buildings by SANAA and Sou Fujimoto. (more…) View the full article

Fibre-cement shingles cover this gabled barn in northeast France, which GENS: Association Libérale d'Architecture has converted into five apartments (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This football stadium in Montreal has a giant faceted roof structure, which folds over an indoor playing field before morphing into spectator seating surrounding a second open-air pitch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: Salone del Mobile may be the official centre of the furniture business during Milan design week, but Fuori Salone is the fair that actually channels investment into the city, says local designer Eleonora Fassina. (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: unsettling scenes of building sites are screened amidst a full-scale scaffolding structure inside Poland's Biennale pavilion, which focuses on the plight of the construction worker (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Plates of weathering steel frame the tall doorway to this timber-clad home, designed by architects Design Base 8 and Omar Gandhi for a remote site on Canada's Cape Breton (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish architecture practice Francesc Rifé Studio used polycarbonate sheets to divide an old textile factory into offices for the chef and staff behind the world-famous El Bulli restaurant (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Board-marked concrete walls frame this Buenos Aires residence by Argentinian architect Federico Sartor, but at the back they give way to large windows, offering views of a courtyard and lake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Nendo has revisited its technique of creating sketch-like objects with a series of 3D-printed pieces that look like the outlines of paper. Read more View the full article