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A street-facing window replaces a rolling shutter at the front of this former garage in a Dublin mews building, which local architecture office TAKA has converted to create extra space for an existing house. (more…) View the full article

Fresh air circulates freely in this Mexican villa by Magaldi Studio, which features open corridors, wooden screens and concrete walls that are mixed with tree sap to increase water resistance. Read more

Design Indaba 2013: glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps were among the concepts to make highways safer while saving money and energy presented by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Designers' efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their products are being hampered by confusion over terminology and rampant greenwashing, writes Marcus Fairs. Read more

New York-based design studio Asthetíque has completed a restaurant in Moscow called The Y that draws on the stylised sets of films directed by Wes Anderson. Read more

Milan 2016: Scottish designer Nick Ross researched Roman accounts of his country's indigenous Caledonian people and used the findings to create a collection of furniture and homeware (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The base of this sports university building in Portugal by architect Pedro Reis is a concrete plinth set into a hillside, while a long white box above contains classrooms (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Arched nooks, white pebbles and Mediterranean herbs are among the details inside this New York pop-up for Israeli beauty brand Maaplim, which is modelled on a Grecian rooftop garden. Read more

News: a 388-metre-high hotel and apartment building, which will be the tallest building in the southern hemisphere when completed, has been approved by planners in Melbourne, Australia. (more...) View the full article

Berlin crowdsourcing platform Jovoto has launched an open design competition to repurpose a defunct railway bridge spanning the Danube river in Linz. (more…) View the full article

London cyclists can hang their bicycles on the walls while they grab a coffee or browse at this Soho store for cyclewear brand Rapha by design studio Brinkworth (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects and designers’ obsessions with concrete were epitomised by the projects we featured this time last year, such as this house that has concrete walls both inside and out (above). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: Milan's furniture fair has become a celebration of marketing over design and has helped feed the public perception of design as a superficial discipline, according to design critic Alice Rawsthorn. (more…)

Montreal firm Appareil Architecture has combined two dwellings in the city, which involved removing walls to bring in more natural light and creating a new sunken lounge space. Read more View the full article

Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won a competition to repurpose a derelict brewery in the Latvian city of Riga, introducing offices, a hotel and a public plaza. Read more View the full article

Projects by Aldo Rossi, Paul Rudolph and Le Corbusier show how buildings on stilts can be used to covertly introduce public space onto private land, according to the curators of the Luxembourg Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Read more View the full article

Courtyards punch through the walls and roof of this bungalow that Japanese studio Kazuya Saito Architects designed for an elderly couple in Sendai (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

San Francisco firm Schwartz and Architecture has overhauled a single-family home on a steep and narrow site, lifting the existing building to add a storey beneath it, and creating an extension at the back over three levels. Read more View the full article

UK architecture firm 5th Studio has added a shingle-clad extension to a house in a listed former inn that is raised above the flood level of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A series of extruded volumes face specific views of the coastline and farmland surrounding this house in New South Wales, Australia. Read more View the full article

Hunters Point Library in New York's Long Island City by Steven Holl Architects has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its "total disregard" of people with mobility disabilities. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an interior designer/architect with Gundry & Ducker in London, whose projects include the award-winning Dove House extension (shown above). See more stories about Gundry & Ducker on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

Movie: basketball games have become so aggressive that sports brand Nike decided to include combat pads in its latest kit, explains the brand’s global creative director for the Olympics Martin Lotti in the next Dezeen movie in anticipation of tomorrow’s exclusive event at the Nike+ House of Innovation. (more…) View the full article

Architects and designers can take an activist approach to instigate social change, according to participants in this year's Beirut Design Week. Read more View the full article

Movie: a host of international designers including Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola, Barber & Osgerby and the Campana Brothers discuss their involvement in Clerkenwell Design Week 2014 in this collection of highlight's from the festival this year. (more...) View the full article