This house with an oversailing barrel-vault roof by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates looks across the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima, Japan. More »

The Victoria and Albert Museum have announced the six proposals for a building to house the V&A on the Dundee waterfront in Scotland, including designs by Steven Holl Architects, Snøhetta and Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (above). More »

This cantilevered house in Suffolk, England, by MVDRV of Rotterdam and British firm Mole Architects is nearing completion and will be the first of five homes from Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project available for rent on 22 October. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »

This house on a wedge of land in Shiga, Japan, is by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. More »

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Dezeen podcast: in this podcast British architect John Pawson recounts how he began his career, his only use of colour in an interior and talks us through his exhibition Plain Space, which opened yesterday at the Design Museum in London. More »

The Sperone Westwater gallery by Foster + Partners architects opened in New York earlier this week, featuring a moving exhibition space that connects the floors of the gallery. More »

Dutch architects UNStudio have completed a 21-storey office tower in their hometown of Amsterdam with colourfully glazed recesses in the facade spanning multiple floors. More »

Japanese architects Geneto used screens decorated with grooves to divide this Tokyo apartment. More »

Copenhagen firm Svendborg Architects have built this artist's studio inside an existing stable building in Denmark.   More »

British designer Michael Young has designed a tower for Hong Kong with faceted surfaces that will change according to weather and lighting conditions. More »

New York architecture practice Axis Mundi have designed a conceptual extension to the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, featuring a giant lattice structure. More »

A room where teenagers can hang out designed by Mathieu Lehanneur has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. More »

This office building in Shanghai punctuated by rectangular apertures is a renovation by Chinese firm NHDRO. More »

Here are some more of the villas from Athens developer Oliaros' project on the island of Antiparos, Greece including designs from Tokyo architects Atelier Bow-Wow, Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Greek firm decaArchitecture (see our earlier story). More »