Workshops clad in timber batons sit atop this children’s centre outside Paris by French architects SOA. More »

Inside awards: as part of our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Andy Walker from Nike Football and Sean Pearson from RUFproject about the Football Training Centre in Soweto, which won the culture and civic category. Watch the movie »

British photographers Hufton + Crow have sent us new images of the Dresden Museum of Military History, which reopened last month following an extension by New York architect Daniel Libeskind. More »

A faceted glass shroud cloaks these former shipbuilding warehouses in Elsinore, Denmark, which architects AART have converted into a cultural centre. More »

Construction has begun on an aluminium-clad museum in Norway by Danish architecture studios COBE and Transform. More »

Construction is about to commence in Algiers on the third largest mosque in the world, which will only be smaller than the pilgrimage sites of Mecca and Medina. More »

A slatted timber concert hall bulges through the glass atrium walls of this performing arts college in Cardiff by London studio BFLS. More »

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed an underground museum extension with a park on top in Assen, the Netherlands. More »

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre. More »

Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these images of a shimmering steel visitors centre at a Mumbai museum. More »

Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to convert a Basel warehouse with their design for an extension that will zigzag across the roof like a bolt of lightning. More »

Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China that’s covered in firewood. More »

A Jewish purification ritual takes place in the pools of this Mexico City bathhouse. More »

Portuguese photographer José Campos has sent us these photos of Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall, which is currently under construction in Hamburg and due for completion in 2013. More »