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Thousands of animal bones line the macabre interior of this restaurant in a refurbished 1940s building in Mexico, by design studio Cadena + Asociados (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Salomé Galjaard of engineering firm Arup says 3D printing building components will result in more efficient and diverse architectural forms (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Sinato raised the ceiling level inside this Japanese apartment to create a mezzanine reading room that can be glimpsed through a narrow opening (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: construction will begin next year on Africa's tallest building – a 540-metre-high skyscraper in Morocco. (more…) View the full article

The founder of London gallery and design studio 19 Greek Street has created a show apartment for residences in the city's former Saint Martins School of Art building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond teamed up to complete this new student centre for Erasmus University in Rotterdam, which features a transparent exterior and a curving oak interior (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The next seat in our A-Zdvent calendar is Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Postmodern interpretation of an eighteenth-century Queen Anne chair. (more…) View the full article

London firm Stanton Williams has completed a house in leafy north London with a timber and stone exterior, green sedum roofs and an entrance that brings residents over a bridge (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French artist Didier Faustino has included a salacious hole in the centre of this ornately framed silver mirror. (more…) View the full article

News: Italian design school Domus Academy has recruited leading creatives – including Patricia Urquiola, Joseph Grima, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alice Rawsthorn – to form a panel that will help the school "revolutionise" its teaching (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: while most commenters engaged with heavyweight issues about the future of architecture and the role of designers in America's social problems, some found a concept for a modular hotel on the banks of the Seine more engaging. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Gothenburg-based Studio Esinam to give readers the chance to win one of five monochrome prints showing elevations of iconic structures from different cities. (more…) View the full article

This take on a traditional Slovenian cottage by Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti features cast concrete walls inlaid with chunks of stone to create a rugged texture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: architectural licensing bodies in the United States, Canada and Mexico have forged an agreement to allow architects to work across North American borders. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Snøhetta has created a ceiling of intersecting domes inside Aesop's first outpost in Norway – the Australian skincare brand's 100th boutique (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A beam of orange light slices through a blacked-out gallery inside Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton building, in an exhibition by Olafur Eliasson that aims to skew viewers' perceptions of space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These tiny pebble-shaped seaside cabins by Korean studio Yoon Space Design are designed to be easily transported from beach to beach (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The curvaceous Panton Chair by Danish designer Verner Panton continues our alphabetical list of iconic seating designs for the run up to Christmas. (more…) View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects stacked up boxy volumes with different dimensions and cladding finishes to create this library in Halifax, Canada (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Danish furniture brand Muuto has chosen a lamp that bends like a fishing rod as the winner of its annual Nordic design award for emerging talents. (more…) View the full article

These retail display stands by Berlin designer Till Wiedeck have multiple shelves for presenting monochrome products in the stores of fashion brand COS (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Audi has teamed up with design studio Kram/Weisshaar to capture the "deathly fear" and "complete excitement" of passengers experiencing their first journey in a car that can drive itself at speeds of up to 220 kilometres per hour (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American firm Choi + Shine Architects has created tube-shaped lighting modules that assemble into three-dimensional arrangements using magnets. (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Joyce Wang Studio, AECOM and John McAslan + Partners, who converted a stone barn into a library at the University of Cumbria (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Pringle Brandon Perkins + Will, PriestmanGoode, Universal Design Studio and more... (more…) View the full article

Vo Trong Nghia Architects has presented its third prototype for low-cost housing in Vietnam, which combines the lightweight structure of the first model with the durability of the second (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article