News: Foster + Partners has been given the title "most admired architect" for the ninth consecutive year, in a global survey of architecture firms. More about Foster + Partners named world's most admired architect for ninth year in a row
Small-scale fittings, blackboards walls and round toilet cubicles are incorporated into this kindergarten in Japan, designed by architecture studios Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro around a garden playground (+ slideshow). More about Light-filled classrooms surround a courtyard garden at DS Nursery in Japan
Architects Panos Dragonas and Varvara Christopoulou believe there is no longer anywhere remote enough to build a wilderness hideaway, so have instead proposed a cabin raised above the Athens rooftops. More about City rooftop cabin offers an alternative to the primitive forest hut
Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has completed a pool-side home near Valencia comprising a squat white cylinder with terraces set into deep voids in its walls (+ movie). More about Crescent-shaped pool skirts cylindrical house by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Austrian studio Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed a faceted steel and angular glass building to house a natural history museum in Lyon, France (+ slideshow). More about Coop Himmelb(l)au's Musée des Confluences opens on a river peninsula in Lyon
News: the Glasgow School of Art has named five architects in the running to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh Building, which was devastated by fire last May. More about Five architects shortlisted to restore Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art
Architecture studio Corpo Atelier has restructured an old stone outbuilding in a rural area of northern Portugal, adding a bulky wooden framework behind its thick masonry walls (+ slideshow). More about Wooden trusses support new mezzanines inside remodelled stone building by Corpo Atelier
This South Korean home designed by Studio GAON for a couple and their dogs features a rooftop meditation garden, a lounge that doubles as a home cinema, and a kitchen overlooking a mountain landscape (+ slideshow). More about House in Sang-an by Studio GAON designed to suit a couple with three dogs
News: former US president Bill Clinton has been named as the keynote speaker for the American Institute of Architects' annual conference in Atlanta this May. More about Bill Clinton to address American architects at the 2015 AIA convention
Portuguese studio SAMI Arquitectos has slotted a modern concrete house behind the crumbling stone walls of a ruined building, located on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. More about Ageing stone walls frame concrete structure of E/C House by SAMI Arquitectos
Trees sprout out of the rainbow-coloured cubes that make up the facade of this bank in northern Tokyo – the fourth building that architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has designed for Sugamo Shinkin (+ slideshow). More about Coloured boxes and plants cover the latest Sugamo Shinkin Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux
The homes of three families are contained behind the smooth stone facade of this building in Kuwait by local architecture studio Massive Order. More about Box House in Kuwait contains a trio of apartments with private courtyards
Pietri Architects has driven a deep pink ravine through the heart of this apartment complex in southern France, creating a protected rooftop garden for residents (+ slideshow). More about Cerise walls frame rooftop garden of housing block by Pietri Architectes
News: the competition-winning design by Herzog & de Meuron and Hassell to revamp Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station is unlikely to go ahead, according to the state government. More about Herzog & de Meuron face loss of multibillion-dollar Flinders Street Station project
A bamboo framework filled with plants surrounds the brick core of this sanitation facility designed by H&P Architects for a school in rural Vietnam (+ slideshow). More about Toigetation by H&P Architects is a bamboo toilet block covered in plants
An irregular quatrefoil-shaped bowl made of maroon concrete is submerged into one side of this skatepark in northern France designed by architecture studios Planda and Constructo (+ slideshow). More about Architects arrange French skatepark around an irregular maroon bowl
Forty-two identical windows puncture the exterior of this house in Japan by Tato Architects, which also features a staircase that leads onto a piece of furniture (+ slideshow). More about A staircase lands on a desk inside House in Hikone by Tato Architects
Round pavilions dotted across the landscaped grounds of this expo centre for a grapevine breeding convention in China were designed to resemble giant grapes, with relief patterns in their concrete facades (+ slideshow). More about Archea Associati creates fruit-inspired buildings for Yanqing Grape Expo
News: Elizabeth Chu Richter has become the 2015 president of the American Institute of Architects following a ceremony in Washington DC. More about Elizabeth Chu Richter takes over as AIA president
News: parts of Zaha Hadid Architects' Library and Learning Centre in Vienna have been cordoned off after a piece of concrete cladding fell off. More about Cladding panel falls off Zaha Hadid's Vienna library