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Soundproof pods, saddle-shaped chairs, adjustable-height desks and wobble boards were in abundance at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week, as privacy and wellbeing become essential aspects of office furniture design. Read more

This week Dezeen has been at Beijing Design Week and you can check out a selection of the best projects, exhibitions and installations in our Facebook album, including a sculpture made from metal rods with a walk-through tunnel (shown above). See all the photos » View the full article

Board-marked concrete is used to create a vaulted dining space in this restaurant in Mexico City's Roma neighbourhood, designed by local studio Taller ADG to echo old Italian trattorias. Read more View the full article

UK firm Knight Architects has revealed its plans for a bridge that will span over a kilometre across a bay in Helsinki, making it the longest bridge in Finland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Five exciting architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week including positions at technology company Apple and global architecture firm UNStudio. Read more

White marble panels on the exterior of this commercial building in São Paulo by French-Brazilian office Triptyque were intended to give it an icy aesthetic that contrasts with its subtropical environment (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Rob Hootsmans has renovated a 1970s courthouse in the Dutch city of Zwolle and added a "transparent and approachable" extension featuring sawtoothed glass facades. Read more View the full article

A school from the 1960s in Torino, Italy, has been updated with a pink steel and adobe plaster extension designed by architecture studio BDR Bureau. Read more View the full article

Dezeen archive: after featuring a Japanese home with four tiny houses inside (bottom left) this week, we’ve compiled all the projects we’ve published that include small houses sitting within larger ones. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Tapered, rammed-earth walls support the roof of this small shelter that architecture student Conor Denison has built on the desert campus of Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin. Read more

The founders of American studio Turkel Design have used prefabricated components to create a home for themselves in southern California that will also serve as a "lab" for testing ideas and materials. Read more View the full article

Harriet Harriss, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York, will speak about the future of design education at Dezeen Day on 30 October. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can get a discounted rate to Salon Art + Design fair in New York, which will feature designs by Frank Lloyd Wright and Pierre Yovanovitch. Read more View the full article

We’re into double figures on our A-Zdvent calendar and at number ten is J House in Japan, which features rooms that open out to one another. Read more about J House » View the full article

An embracing chair designed to soothe anxiety and a lamp that anyone can be taught to manufacture are among items of furniture designed for prisons by students from Norway's University of Bergen. Read more View the full article

Helsinki's new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn't the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. Read more View the full article

This 19th century barn in rural Germany has been remodelled into a holiday home and guest house, connected by a huge open hall featuring a network of original wooden trusses (+ slideshow). (more…)

Brooklyn firm Studio Tack has revamped a mid-century motel on the North Fork of Long Island to include cabin-like bedrooms and a restaurant that feels "like a ferry crossing the sound". Read more

News: Dutch studio MVRDV has won a competition to design 95 homes in Emmen, Switzerland, with plans that give every residence an identifiable colour. (more...) View the full article

For the latest Dezeen competition, we've teamed up with the Royal Academy of Arts to give readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a lecture with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of Grafton Architects and curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. Read more View the full article

Perkins Eastman Architects' Green Line concept would see New York's iconic Broadway converted into a linear park running from Columbus Circle to Union Square. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why we're responding to our critics and introducing paid editorial internships: "Interns will get a contract and be paid above the minimum wage". (more...) View the full article

Los Angeles' Studio Sucio used a "mish-mash" of styles for the apartments it has created inside a 1960s Holiday Inn in Downtown Los Angeles. Read more

News: French designer Philippe Starck and timber engineering company Riko have announced a new venture manufacturing sustainable prefabricated wooden homes. (more…) View the full article

Students at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture have conceived a series of shelters for homeless people, ranging from a shopping cart converted into a tent structure to a tiny house made of scavenged material. Read more View the full article