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Berlin studio Baumhauer has renovated a traditional farmhouse in the Swiss hamlet of Florins, inserting a timber structure that contains new living areas in place of an existing barn (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: German designer Sebastian Scherer used sheets of coloured glass to create these tessellating tables. (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio Personal Architecture has overhauled a traditional townhouse in The Hague by adding mezzanine floors, a glass elevation, a triple-height kitchen and a spiral staircase. (more...) View the full article

This movie by film studio Carniolus shows how the Slovenian army used a helicopter to airlift the various components of an Alpine cabin to its mountainside location. (more…) View the full article

New York-based Ghiora Aharoni Design Studio has added curved oak panels and silver leafing to an apartment in an art-deco Manhattan building to better reflect its original style (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Axcent Pocket Watch by Stockholm collective People People is designed for those who are used to reaching into their pocket for their phone to tell the time (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish practice Raúl Sánchez Architects has employed contrasting materials to carve out different zones in the open-plan living space of this apartment in Barcelona's Eixample district. Read more View the full article

Part of this wooden house in Japan by mA-style architects is lifted off the ground and curved like the hull of a boat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: British designer Thomas Heatherwick was forced to defend his Garden Bridge proposal this week after reports emerged that the project was missing £22 million in funding. (more…) View the full article

A photography series documenting 20 contemporary Japanese homes and their owners joins 500 more examples of Japanese houses on our extensive Pinterest board. Follow us on Pinterest | See more Japanese houses in our archive View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of The New Wave in Danish Architecture, a book featuring contemporary projects by Danish architects such as BIG and NORD. (more...) View the full article

Architects office Mariusz Wrzeszcz has completed a single-storey house in Poland featuring cedar-clad walls, and a glazed living room that opens out to a spacious terrace (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The facade of this house in the Spanish town of Novelda is divided into three sections that are each angled to make the most of the available views and sunlight (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This animation by architect Andrea Stinga and graphic designer Federico Gonzalez depicts the best-known buildings of 26 famous architects, one for each letter of the alphabet. (more...) View the full article

As anticipation of Apple's smartwatch launch reaches fever pitch, we've rounded up eight of the best, worst and funniest examples of what the iWatch probably won't look like. (more...) View the full article

Great architecture is judged on material reality, not the ethics of those that are creating it, says Sean Griffiths. Read more

Tokyo-based studio Do Do has used remnants of porcelain to update this ceramics shop and gallery in northwest Japan, and create a new pavilion for hosting workshops. Read more View the full article

London College of Fashion graduate Barbora Veselá has layered-up leftover scraps of leather to create striations based on rock formations on the surface of these shoes (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

University of Sussex graduate Lucy Hughes used fish waste to create MarinaTex, a compostable alternative to single-use plastic that has won her this year's UK James Dyson Award. Read more

Eindhoven designer Erez Nevi Pana has developed a dough made from soil and fungus that can be baked in an oven to create stools and chairs strong enough to sit on. (more...) View the full article

MAMM Design has completed a two-storey residence in Kai, Japan, featuring a long mezzanine described as a street where the family can come together (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The A-frame exterior of this mountainside cabin in Whistler was designed by Canadian studio Scott and Scott to mimic neighbouring 1970s chalets. (more…) View the full article

This week, as part of our roundup series of American houses from each of the 50 states, we're featuring Maine, home to a house raised on stilts above a bay and a black cabin in the woods (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The cantilevered concrete that tops his minimal home in La Plata, Argentina, was designed by architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac to look as if it is "suspended in the air". Read more

Brightly coloured signs adorned with words related to "love in all its forms" decorate this architectural installation that designers Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan have created for a summer festival in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article