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Belgian architects Edouard Brunet and François Martens have converted a terraced house in Brussels into two apartments, adding a projecting box with a full-height glass wall to house a new kitchen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: architect Magnus Ström launched a bespoke-housing service for multi-millionaires this week, while Renzo Piano unveiled plans for a luxurious apartment tower in Miami (pictured). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of ceramic tableware with handles to help store them in compact spaces and carry hot food. (more…) View the full article

Estudio ALA created this open-air chapel with a tall brick tower for staff at a tequila factory in the Mexican countryside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón is launching a limited-edition chronograph with a chimp-like face for his watch company Orolog. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for interior designers at Robert A M Stern Architects, which led the design of the 15 Central Park West apartment block in New York (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has designed an octagonal portable charger that can accommodate a computer, a smartphone and a tablet at the same time (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Australian Institute of Architects has named 46 winners in its annual awards, ranging from a brightly coloured hospital to a house split up into a "village" of blocks and a new home for the Melbourne School of Design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A pair of red brick walls screen the back of this house on the Gulf of Thailand, which faces away from a seaside resort and towards a cemetery where the client's father is buried (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has completed a wedge-shaped residential building for students and faculty on a sloped urban site in Los Angeles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This undulating course was designed by Canadian firm Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects to host BMX races during the 2015 Pan American Games (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Caruso St John Architects has unveiled plans for a new £160 million biomedical laboratory at University of Basel, Switzerland, which features a gridded glass facade and a concrete base with arch-shaped notches. (more…) View the full article

The first holiday home has been built at the BIG-designed Hualien Residences in Taiwan, a resort development for retirees that still want active vacations (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes Renzo Piano's luxury tower for Miami, palatial homes for the super rich (pictured) and a sex toy that can be mounted like a vaulting horse. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 278 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata's 1989 Miss Blanche chair has sold for its highest ever price during an auction at Sotheby's London. (more…) View the full article

Type foundry Monotype has used long-hidden drawings by British designer Eric Gill to create the first new typeface based on his work in more than 75 years. (more…) View the full article

A cruciform facade marks the new entrance to this art museum, which occupies a 15th-century monastery building near Venice, Italy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Walls based on traditional Chinese screens can be moved to create exhibition spaces within this Beijing art gallery by local firm Arch Studio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish architect Magnus Ström wants to help the super rich commission a bespoke home the same way they buy a luxury yacht using his Superhouse brand (+ 360-degree render). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: dominated by old boys who think their view is the only one that matters, architecture academia in the US has become insular and out of touch, says Reinier de Graaf, who finds a perfect illustration in a recent debate at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. (more…) View the full article

A team at MIT Media Lab has used bacteria to design a "bio-skin" fabric that peels back in reaction to sweat and humidity (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Arckit to offer five readers the chance to win a model building set designed for architects, which was hailed as "posh Lego" when it launched earlier this year. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2015: bamboo could "revolutionise the building industry" and replace steel as the dominant reinforcing material, according to a professor who is working on new applications for the grass. (more…) View the full article

This umbrella-shaped street lamp by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a crystal-covered canopy and allows passersby to leave augmented messages for their friends (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2015: a bamboo community centre in Vietnam, a concrete music school in Tokyo and a "vertical village" of apartment blocks in Singapore are among today's category winners at the World Architecture Festival. (more…) View the full article