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Could a sustainable renovation be the answer to old buildings instead of a redevelopment? Check out this home-cum-studio in Canada and leave us your views…

Yesterday's Sunday Times devoted the lead slot of its front page to a long examination of the effects of the web on the attention spans of teenagers. In the tradition (yes, it is now a tradition) of Nick Carr, the piece concludes that, essentially, our smartphones - and our Facebook and our YouTube and our web in general - are robbing kids of their ability to concentrate. Neuroplasticity! "Researchers say the lure of these technologies, while it affects adults too, is particularly powerful for young people," the piece notes. "The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks - and less able to sustain attention."

Developing a dialogue between architectural form, geometry, sustainability and smart materials, Margot Krasojevic Architects designs a photovoltaic ice skating rink in Russia. Check it out and leave us your views...

Reviving a lost craft and in the bargain, pushing it to outperform, is a strength that is being explored by designer Rooshad Shroff. How will he sustain this? Any suggestions? Check out the story here and tell us what you think

Philippe Barriere Collective uses hybrid architecture to chisel the Mahmud mosque in Tunisia as a testimony to merging the strengths of both - local artisanal strengths and Computer Aided Drawing. Check out the feature and leave us your comments…

Prioritizing nature over built form, hillside resort DuSaiResortSpa by VITTI.sthapati follows a hybrid typology of traditional tea estate architecture and standardised concrete construction.

Public art projects are manned with an intention of eliciting some cultural feedback and significant finsings in the ethos of a city and its peple. Is this truly accomplished? Check out Baptiste Debombourg's work at Nantes and leaev us your views…

Mast-like silhouettes adorn the 29-storey China Minmetals Corp Tower in Shenzhen. Check out the design that has just been unveiled and leave us your views…

Heiða Nolsøe and Marie Berggreen's DropBucket is the new solution for waste management!

@tinker-imagineers design an array of interactive games and a genial environment to make this centre designed especially for the treatment of obese youngsters a go-to place in The Netherlands. Check out the full story here

A community-based intervention in Indonesia by SHAU architecture uses 2000 ice-cream buckets to create a micro-library for the lower-income populace to empower literacy. Find out more here!

@sanjay-puri-architect uses angular forms and colour blocking to create a symphony in concrete. Check out his latest outing - a hostel for GLA University in Mathura…