UK-based charity Playrise and architecture studio OMMX have designed a modular, flatpack playground, aimed at restoring the right to play for children in refugee camps and disaster zones. More about Playrise's easy-build playground lets kids be kids even when fleeing war
Dutch architectural studio Woonpioniers has built a house on the dunes in the south of the Netherlands using modular methods. More about Woonpioniers builds a house that "moves with the dunes"
American musician A$AP Rocky and his design studio Hommemade have outfitted the interiors of a historic modular home by American architect Paul Rudolph for online design gallery Basic Space in Los Angeles. More about A$AP Rocky revamps modernist Paul Rudolph guesthouse for Basic Space auction
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled the Heirloom House project, a series of nine structural-concrete components that can be manually rearranged and that are intended to last for 1,000 years. More about MIT researchers design Heirloom House concrete components to last "1,000 years"
Samara, the factory-built ADU company co-founded by US chief design officer Joe Gebbia, has installed the first of a series of units in Los Angeles on the site of a home that burned down in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. More about Samara installs its first factory-built home in Los Angeles rebuild effort
Myanmar-based architecture studio Blue Temple has teamed up with construction company Housing Now to build a series of low-cost bamboo homes capable of withstanding natural disasters. More about Blue Temple creates earthquake-proof bamboo homes for "the price of a smartphone"
American architecture studio AMMA fabricated mass-timber structures in Spain before installing them for the Oceana Innovation Hub school in Barbados in a modular arrangement that reflects vernacular architecture. More about AMMA completes mass-timber modular school "that breathes" in Barbados
Local studio Nitsche Arquitetos has completed a modular, cross-laminated timber house with a rectangular dogtrot-style plan outside of São Paulo, Brazil. More about Nitsche Arquitetos focuses on "broad adaptability" for modular house in Brazil
French architecture studios Atelier 9.81 and Perrot & Richard have renovated the Palais Rameau exhibition hall in Lille, inserting a modular and demountable timber frame into its heritage-protected steel shell. More about Demountable timber structure reinvigorates Palais Rameau in Lille
Designer Malte Schütt has created a modular wooden sauna with a gridded facade and a planted roof that connects it to its green, garden setting. More about Malte Schütt creates prefabricated Kassette House sauna
Architecture studio 11 x 17 had to leave historic details intact when converting a restaurant in a mixed-use building in Denver, Colorado, into a gallery space for the Architectural League of New York. More about Denver pizza restaurant transformed into modular gallery by 11 x 17
Japanese studio I IN has created Blue Bottle Coffee's first kiosk in Santa Clara, California, which has a minimalist design and was prefabricated from stainless steel. More about Stainless steel and blue details decorate modular Valley Fair Kiosk for Blue Bottle Coffee
US home builder Cosmic Buildings and technology company ABB Robotics have collaborated on a temporary robotic construction system housed in a tent to produce modular housing to aid in the recovery of the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year. More about "Mobile robotic factory" deployed to create modular housing for LA wildfire recovery
The Small Lots, Big Impacts competition in Los Angeles, which asked architects to develop starter house concepts for vacant lots across the city, has revealed its winners. More about Starter home concepts seek to alleviate Los Angeles housing crisis
A modular timber frame doubles as shelving, seating and storage at this angular home in Bavaria, designed by German practice Lux Architect and Spanish studio Cánovas Arquitectura. More about Walls "also serve as furniture" at modular House Anton II in Germany
The Frieze art fair in London has unveiled its biggest redesign in over a decade featuring a layout inspired by city planning by design office A Studio Between. More about A Studio Between takes cues from Jane Jacobs for Frieze London redesign
Colorado-based startup Elmntl has unveiled a range of customisable cabins that provide bedrooms and sauna facilities in natural landscapes. More about Elmntl unveils prefab cabins for creating wellness retreats in wild landscapes
Boston non-profit Aurelia Institute has created a pavilion showcasing its self-assembling geodesic dome, designed to allow space professionals and the general public to "lead good lives" in zero gravity. More about Aurelia Institute designs geodesic spacecraft for "leading good lives" in orbit
Carpenters Workshop Gallery has unveiled a model of the Jean Prouvé-designed 6x6 demountable house in a London garden created by landscape designer Luciano Giubbilei. More about Jean Prouvé house finds permanent London home in Ladbroke Hall garden
An exhibition at Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris allows visitors to experience the Jean Prouvé-designed Maison Les Jours Meilleurs in both real life and virtual reality. More about Galerie Patrick Seguin blends VR with physical installation to recreate Jean Prouvé house