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US studio JHL Design emphasised "the interplay of light and shadow" and other classic Japanese principles when turning a vacant penthouse in Portland into a tech firm's office space. Read more View the full article

The façade of this house in Valencia by Spanish architects BBLab Arquitectos is punctured with a pattern of circular holes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Jiabao Zhang has taken the average dimensions of 50 cups, bottles, pens, light shades and reading glasses to create five standard items. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Jiaji Shen has proposed transforming a disused pier on London's River Thames into a workshop for a designer who makes jewellery with items scavenged from the mud. Read more View the full article

The first Serpentine Pavilion built outside the UK is a tunnel made out of arched steel beams, built by Chinese studio Jiakun Architects in Beijing. Read more View the full article

Beijing studio Atelier TeamMinus has completed a visitor centre for an ancient Buddhist memorial in Tibet, which features stone walls, a central courtyard and 11 rooftop observation decks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

German studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten have completed an art museum in Nanjing, China, with a series of narrow rectangular slits across the facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Blocks of resin with colourful marble-like patterns surrounds chunks of wood to form these miniature storage boxes by Royal College of Art graduate Jie Wu. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Swedish furniture company Massproductions present this simple steel-framed armchair at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hongik University graduate Jihye Kang built her Purity furniture from acrylic and stainless steel as an exploration of the refractive effects that can be achieved with simple materials and shapes. Read more View the full article

News: Jimenez Lai of Chicago architecture studio Bureau Spectacular has won the inaugural Lisbon Triennale Début Award, presented to an architect under 35 in recognition of an outstanding career so far. (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto referenced furniture of the 18th century to create a Shaker-style chair for furniture brand Arflex. Read more View the full article

This home surrounded by lush greenery in Mexico City pays homage to the aesthetics of modernism, and includes raw materials such as volcanic stone, exposed concrete and steel columns. Read more View the full article

JKMM Architects has designed an extension to Finland's national museum in Helsinki topped with a white, disc-shaped concrete roof. Read more View the full article

Helsinki firm JKMM Architects is building a sauna in the depths of the Nevada desert so that visitors of this year's Burning Man can cleanse and relax. Read more

An apartment, community space and shop are accommodated in this skinny building squeezed onto a narrow plot in the South Korean city of Busan by local office JMY Architects (+ slideshow). (more…)

Spanish firm External Reference has converted a taxi garage in Barcelona into a home and studio for an art director with a wire framework for showcasing objects and a bed concealed inside an island seating area (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Finnish designer Joanna Laajisto has combined mint-coloured corrugated metal wall panels with red-orange marble furniture inside this restaurant in Helsinki. (more…) View the full article

London-based photographer Joanne Underhill has attempted to save Welbeck Street car park in a "small way" with a new series of colour photos. Read more

Cavernous holes in the courtyard of three museum buildings in Graz, Austria, lead underground into a new, shared entrance by Spanish architects Nieto Sobejano and local firm eep architekten (photographs by Roland Halbe). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Raw concrete and timber boxes create rooms inside these gabled blocks, added to a hotel on a vineyard in rural Portugal by architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This monolithic concrete house in an affluent area of Porto presents a largely closed and robust facade to the street, but opens up on its side towards its garden. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: artists Studio Job will present this cabinet with an enormous bronze key in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more images of the lounge designed by Belgian artists Studio Job for the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a 3D artist at 3XN Architects, which used angled stone to create zigzags across the facade of a hospital building in Copenhagen. More › View the full article