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Small cabins perched on tree trunk-like columns provide outdoor rooms for residents of this apartment complex in Singapore by WOHA (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: international architecture firms IND and Powerhouse Company have won a competition to design a 100-metre-tall broadcast and observation tower in Turkey with a design that resembles a continuous ribbon. (more...) View the full article

News: architects have "nothing to do with the workers" who have died on construction sites in Qatar, according to Zaha Hadid, whose Al Wakrah stadium for the FIFA World Cup 2022 is under construction in the gulf state. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: wearable technology will revolutionise healthcare for doctors and patients alike, says the director of design studio Vitamins in our final movie from December's Wearable Futures conference. (more...) View the full article

Explore the Spring 2014 collection from London furniture brand Heal's using our new interactive slideshow feature, including storage that leans against the wall and stacking pendant lamps. (more...) View the full article

An aluminium canopy speckled with triangular perforations shelters the space between old and new buildings at Mexico's National Film Archive and Film Institute, recently renovated by Rojkind Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These paper headdresses have been folded into the shapes of creatures from Chinese mythology by Paris accessories designer Qi Hu for the city's Printemps department store. (more...) View the full article

Interior designer Ilse Crawford's London practice Studioilse has created the interior for a multipurpose arts space and restaurant in central Hong Kong with a lush garden terrace overlooking the city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A doorway is the only opening in the faceted concrete facade of this family residence in Tokyo by architecture studio MDS. (more...) View the full article

Glazed panels create views between the floors of these two Edwardian townhouses in London that have been renovated by local architects Studio Octopi to accommodate resident artists (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Walls of different heights and widths create a maze-like sequence of passages and entrances around the main hall of this church in the Philippines by New York architects CAZA (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These photographs show the newly converted aquatics centre by Zaha Hadid Architects for the London 2012 Olympics, which will open to the public next week without the controversial wings that housed additional seating during the Games. (more...) View the full article

London retailer Heal's has released its first own-brand collection of textiles in four decades (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An intricate three-dimensional lattice of narrow timber slats forms a cloud-like mass around the exterior of this pineapple cake shop in Tokyo by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British studio Snook Architects used industrial materials, reclaimed furniture and colourful storage units to transform a 550-square-metre loft in Liverpool into an office for creative agency Uniform (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers and David Chipperfield have been named on a shortlist of six architects in the running to resurrect Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace exhibition hall in south London. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Danish furniture brand Normann Copenhagen has launched an armchair and two-seater version of the padded Swell sofa created by Swedish designer Jonas Wagell to resemble risen bread. (more...) View the full article

Scottish studio Konishi Gaffney has constructed a huge dormer window to convert the loft of a terraced house in Edinburgh into an extra bedroom. (more...) View the full article

Israeli architect Ranaan Stern has adapted a 15-square metre room inside an artist's Tel Aviv apartment to create a studio with two desks, 36 drawers, modular storage compartments, pegboard display walls and even a folding bed (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Swedish designer Anya Sebton has created a storage system that doubles as display units for magazines and plants. (more...) View the full article

Two dance studios at the top of this copper-clad music conservatory in Paris by local studio Basalt Architecture project outwards from the facade to capture plenty of natural daylight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A white spectacles showroom contrasts with black examination areas at this opticians near Montreal by Canadian studio La SHED Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the rising cost of property in city centres is causing the "biggest crisis" facing architects and urbanists, according to critic Joseph Rykwert, the recipient of this year's RIBA Royal Gold Medal (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Chunky wooden columns and beams support the sloping timber ceiling of this small pharmacy by Japanese studio Ninkipen! in the city of Ogaki (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Alchemist Lauren Bowker applied heat-sensitive ink to a sculptural leather garment and used fire to alter its colour during a presentation for her company The Unseen (+ movie). (more...) View the full article