Several restaurants and a hotel have opened within Detroit's historic Book Tower as part of a restoration project of the building by its developer and architecture studio ODA. Readers are full of praise.

Commenters are loving the bright yellow balconies that define the ParkLife apartment block in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne, designed by local studio Austin Maynard Architects.

Readers are intruiged by Berlin-based designer Kimia Amir-Moazami's attempt to tackle the issue of food waste with a container system that reveals if something is safe to eat or not.  

Commenters are discussing raw finishes and "as found" materials informed by brutalist architecture used throughout this home, which Portuguese studio Atelier Local has created on a nature reserve near Porto.

Berlin studio Mono Architekten has combined a perforated concrete viewing tower with a car park topped by a public park to create a new entrance to the town of Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany. Readers are impressed. 

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yoojin Chung pokes fun at the western approach to feng shui with a trio of digital devices that offer a quick-fix approach to positive qi. Readers are split in their opinions. 

Not all commenters are convinced about a pitched-roof house on a family farm in western Massachusetts completed by US studio Kinneymorrow Architecture. 

Indian studio Blurring Boundaries has used organic forms and natural materials throughout Asmalay, a curvaceous home that wraps around trees in a forest near Mumbai. Readers are won-over by the "creative" project. 

Commenters are reacting to the scalloped sections of green-painted timber cladding on the facade of Lumber 4, a mixed-use building in Norway designed by local consulting agency Oslotre.

Readers are debating the news that Saudi mega-development Neom has revealed the Norlana town wrapped around a marina on the Gulf of Aqaba, designed by architecture studio 10 Design.

Commenters share their thoughts about American architecture studio Far + Dang's Linear Cabin in the Woods, created for multiple families using black metal to help the elongated building disappear into its natural setting.

Readers are admiring a zigzagging plan used to bring "spatial depth" to the small site of House in Fujiidera, a family home in Osaka, Japan, designed by local studio FujiwaraMuro Architects.