News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed the latest images of its design for M+, the new museum of visual culture that recently broke ground in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron unveils updated design for Hong Kong M+ museum
Behind a shimmering aluminium facade, the rooms of this Montreal house are organised around a three-tiered courtyard that allows daylight to funnel through to every storey (+ slideshow). More about Holy Cross House by TBA hides a multi-level courtyard behind a "working-class facade"
Gianni Botsford Architects worked with translucent concrete to create this boxy garden pavilion in Zurich, dedicated to "the old fashioned art of smoking" (+ slideshow). More about Smoking Room by Gianni Botsford Architects is a translucent-concrete garden folly
News: Studio Fuksas has been selected to design a major new convention centre in Canberra, with a proposal that features wavy floors and a bulging, elliptical roof. More about Studio Fuksas to design Australia Forum convention centre in Canberra
News: construction is now underway on the 66-storey Telus Sky Tower designed by Bjarke Ingel's firm for Calgary, Canada (+ slideshow). More about BIG's curvaceous Calgary skyscraper breaks ground next to Foster's Bow tower
This blackened-timber boathouse and pavilion designed by Weiss Architecture occupies a cedar jetty that projects out from the rocky coastline of an Ontario island (+ slideshow). More about Blackened-timber boathouse completed by Weiss Architecture on a Canadian island
News: Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for a new National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in northern Taiwan, which has now begun construction. More about Marine science museum by Foster + Partners starts on site in Taiwan
Chinese firm Archi-Union Architects has completed a campus for an art school on the outskirts of Shanghai featuring a clubhouse building with a twisting roof (+ slideshow). More about Twisted roof connects the angular facades of Archi-Union's Songjiang Art Campus clubhouse
Pupils at this school near Paris take lessons on driving large trucks in a building topped with a perforated aluminium canopy, designed to evoke the look of a petrol station (+ slideshow). More about Yellow mesh box sits atop Ateliers O-S's truck-driving school building in France
Photo essay: disused military checkpoints and border stations across Europe are catalogued in this series by Polish-born photographer Josef Schulz (+ slideshow). More about Josef Schulz documents abandoned checkpoint architecture across Europe
What appears to be a cupboard is actually a staircase leading up to a tiny loft bedroom in this 18th-century barn in Norfolk, England, that Lynch Architects has converted into a holiday home (+ slideshow). More about Converted barn by Lynch Architects includes an interpretation of a Norfolk winder stair
A corrugated steel roof supported by bamboo columns provides shelter for three buildings, a bicycle workshop and a playground at this community centre in Bangladesh (+ slideshow). More about Bamboo-framed canopy shades Bangladesh community centre by Schilder Scholte
A steel-framed pergola covered in willow reeds shades the frontage of this seaside sailing school in Cádiz, Spain, by architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Carlos García Fernández (+ slideshow). More about Lightweight pergola flanks new sailing school for Sotogrande's Royal Maritime Club
Opinion: why did the Postmodernist design movement flounder at the end of the 1980s? Will Wiles finds the answer in popular Hollywood movies. More about "Postmodernism was typecast as soon as it made it out of the Italian magazines"
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has added an aluminium structure inside a 19th-century dance hall in Copenhagen, transforming the building into an office for the Association of Danish Law Firms (+ slideshow). More about Copenhagen dance hall converted into office for Danish law society
The walls and roofs of this golf clubhouse in Mallorca are clad in local stone to give the building a homogenous appearance that emphasises its angular monolithic form (+ slideshow). More about Golf clubhouse designed by GRAS to resemble "a rock in the middle of the course"
News: updated footage of construction work on the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Campus 2 in California has been published on YouTube by another amateur videographer using a drone-mounted GoPro video camera (+ movie). More about Drone movie shows progress on Apple Campus construction
I/O Architects raised one corner of this house in Bulgaria, creating a stepped veranda that stretches along the all-glazed facade (+ slideshow). More about Stone house in Bulgaria by I/O Architects features a veranda that steps up and down
Asked to design a New York home for chickens rather than people, Architecture Research Office has completed a metal-clad bunker featuring wooden nesting boxes and underfloor heating (+ slideshow). More about Sheffer Chicken Coop is a metal-clad New York home for eight hens
A glazed channel steps around the facade this office block in Rome by Italian firms Modostudio and Sofia Cattinari Studio di Architettura, revealing the ascent of two staircases (+ slideshow). More about Staircases trace a path across the glazed facade of Intecs office block in Rome