Swedish studio White Arkitekter has completed Observation Tower Kärven, which is constructed from a network of timber beams resembling "a bundle of twisted straws".
A revamped ruin in rural Girona and a 12-storey block on a compact plot in Mumbai are among the top five houses to turn Dezeen readers' heads this month.
Swedish furniture brand IKEA has recreated its recognisable Frakta carrier bag as a "huggable" padded shopper called Resten, which can be used as a pillow while on the go.
Metals "mined" by plants feature in a first-of-its-kind ring, made by materials researcher and designer Karoline Healy under her jewellery brand H2ERǴ.
Promotion: the annual Tile of Spain Awards in Architecture and Interior Design competition is now open for entries, which highlights worldwide projects that make "innovative" use of ceramic tiles manufactured in Spain.
Artworks are dotted throughout the interior of restaurant L'Abysse Monte Carlo in Monaco, for which its designers Laurence Bonnel and Rowin Atelier took cues from the Seto Inland Sea archipelago.
Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a glass and red-painted wood house off a forested cliffside near the sea in Chile with layers that create "increasing levels of intimacy".
American studios Neil M Denari Architects and HLW have created an office structure in Beverly Hills equipped with solar panels and a distinctive "aubergine"-coloured facade.
Construction has begun on a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan by local firm C3D Architecture that was designed with a bulbous facade that have a "striking visual effect".
