News: SO-IL and FREAKS freearchitects have together won a competition to redesign a glass museum, workshop and gallery on the site of an 18th-century glass factory in north-east France. More about SO-IL and FREAKS to redesign glass museum on French-German border
News: residents of one of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the world have been gradually returning to their homes after a fire that caused more than a thousand people to be evacuated. More about Fire devastates Dubai's 336-metre Torch skyscraper
Ribbons of red aluminium create a woven texture across the facade of this office block completed by Japanese studio Aisaka Architects in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Aisaka Architects adds red basket-weave facade to Tokyo office block
News: OMA has presented a vision to transform a former tobacco plant in Louisville, USA, into a hub for growing and selling food, featuring an edible garden, a coffee roastery and a recycling centre (+ slideshow). More about OMA unveils masterplan for community farming facility in Kentucky
A painted fabric screen concealing windows and balconies merges with the crisp white facade of this artist's house in north London by local firm Guard Tillman Pollock (+ slideshow). More about Stretched fabric hides the windows and balconies of an artist's Hampstead home
A grid of hinged metal shutters form a privacy screen across the windows of this terraced house in New York that architect Philippe Baumann designed for himself and his partner (+ slideshow). More about Philippe Baumann's Courtyard House is shielded behind a metal mesh cage
These new shots by Hufton + Crow provide an in-depth look at the pointy profile and expansive interiors of the Polish concert hall that was recently shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 and this year's Designs of the Year (+ slideshow). More about Szczecin Philharmonic Hall in Poland captured in new photographs by Hufton + Crow
Modular buildings specialist ArchiBlox has unveiled its prototype for a compact carbon-positive house, featuring "edible garden walls", a sunroom and an insulating grass roof (+ slideshow). More about Prefabricated house in Melbourne's City Square can produce more energy than it uses
Weathered steel screens cast chequerboard patterns of sunlight and shadow across the internal surfaces of this house near Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More about Perforated screens cast graphic shadow patterns over concrete house by Pitsou Kedem
Bumpy terracotta tiles clad the gabled volume of this combined artist's studio and family home in the Italian countryside designed by Studio Zero85 (+ slideshow). More about Studio Zero85's hilltop house and studio for an artist is covered in ridged terracotta tiles
This glazed house built from thick concrete slabs was designed by Swiss architect Gian Salis to follow the slope of a plant-covered hill in Germany's Rhine Valley (+ slideshow). More about Gian Salis' House on a Slope steps down a hillside in the Rhine Valley
News: Bjarke Ingels' firm has released images of its design for a loop-shaped country house that features a gallery for showcasing the clients' car collection (+ slideshow). More about BIG unveils looping "snail" house designed for a car collector
Each room of this woodland retreat in Japan is topped by a "pointy hat" that gives the timber structure the appearance of a group of pitched tents (+ slideshow). More about Woodland home by Hiroshi Nakamura designed to resemble a cluster of timber tepees
News: images have emerged of a replacement for the stalled Pinnacle skyscraper in London, which will now be demolished following a deal believed to be worth £300 million. More about Leaked designs reveal replacement for London's part-built Pinnacle skyscraper
Each room of this townhouse in Spain is a separate block with a translucent frontage, which together create a stepped facade that glows after dark (+ slideshow). More about Rue Space's Casa #20 features a four-tiered facade of translucent glass
Innauer‐Matt Architekten sourced spruce from a nearby woodland for the inside and outside walls of this family house in a hamlet of western Austria (+ slideshow). More about Haus Für Julia Und Björn is a wooden residence in Austria's picturesque Bregenz Forest
Opinion: Diller, Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad museum in Los Angeles is an elegant exercise in mundanity, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "An object lesson for designers caught on the hamster wheel of producing interestingness"
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has added a wooden building with a pointy metal roof to a seaside hotel complex he completed five years ago in Nagasaki, south-west Japan (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma extends his Garden Terrace Nagasaki hotel with an asymmetric annex
A triangular lightwell covered in scale-like shingles extends from the roof of this living room that architect Nuno Melo Sousa has added to a house in Penafiel, Portugal (+ slideshow). More about Nuno Melo Sousa uses a wedge-shaped lightwell to bring light into a courtyard living room
Strips of golden aluminium cover this performing arts school and library designed by Ateliers O-S Architectes to stretch across a hillside in a Parisian suburb (+ slideshow). More about Ateliers O-S adds golden metal walls to cultural centre beside a French cemetery