Readers are debating a house in Querétaro, Mexico, designed by local studio Laboratorio de Arquitectura around the use of custom concrete blocks.

A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has built a prototype electric car with a built-in toolbox and components that can be easily repaired or replaced without specialist knowledge. Commenters are encouraged by the project.

Readers are discussing a "masterfully done" renovation of a 19th-century cottage in the Czech Republic by architecture practice Studio Plyš.

Stepped arches define the facade of Studio Weave's latest building, a brick pavilion containing a cafe, public toilets and market facilities. One commenter called it "modestly and magnificently contrived".

Swiss technology company Punkt has launched a privacy-focused smartphone at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, promising enhanced data security for users willing to pay a subscription fee. Readers share their thoughts.

Commenters are intrigued by a series of low-cost bamboo homes designed to withstand natural disasters, created by Myanmar-based architecture studio Blue Temple and construction company Housing Now.

Readers are split over ECoRE, an academic building in central Pennsylvania by Boston architecture studio Payette, featuring a sculptural form and facades wrapped in reddish brick and metal fins.

A cork-clad DJ booth forms the centrepiece of this coffee shop in Hamburg, which its owner Vincent von Thien has designed to evoke the relaxing atmosphere of Japan's jazz cafes. Commenters aren't sold.

Readers are in love with the interiors of a communal sauna and hydrotherapy experience in Montreal, designed by Canadian firm Future Simple Studio in collaboration with wellness brand Recess and skincare company Aesop.