News: construction has started in Chengdu, China, on a 468-metre-high crystalline skyscraper by the architects behind the current and future tallest buildings in the world. More about Construction starts on Smith and Gill's ice-inspired skyscraper for Chengdu
A screen of hollow concrete bricks provides privacy for students using this shower and changing facility at a Shanghai technical college (+ slideshow). More about Hollow concrete blocks form a textured frontage for Wuyang Architecture's student shower block
Studio GAON has converted a concrete factory built 20 years ago in South Korea by the client's late father into a house with a mural-covered facade (+ slideshow). More about Studio GAON converts concrete warehouse into a couple's first home
News: these renderings show what New York's skyline will look like in 2018, when many of the city's new tall skyscrapers will be complete (+ slideshow). More about New York's 2018 skyline revealed in visualisations
News: these new images show the interiors and exteriors of David Chipperfield's soon-to-complete museum and gallery complex in a converted steel factory in Milan (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield's City of Culture nears completion in Milan
News: groups of eight people or more will have to apply for permission to cross Thomas Heatherwick's proposed Garden Bridge in London in a move to discourage "protest groups" from occupying the structure. More about Heatherwick's Garden Bridge will require groups of eight or more to "request a formal visit"
News: 10 architecture firms – seven from the UK and three from the Czech Republic – have been selected via an international design competition to create housing designs for a development on the outskirts of Prague. More about Czech and UK architects win Prague housing project
This pavilion featuring green walls and a colonnade was designed by Berlin studio Raumlabor to surround a small fountain in the centre of Montreal (+ slideshow). More about Raumlabor builds a grass-covered enclosure around a Montreal fountain
Italian architect Renzo Piano has upgraded the facilities of the Harvard Art Museums in Boston, Massachusetts, by adding a new gallery wing and transforming a former courtyard into a top-lit atrium (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano reconfigures Harvard Art Museums around a grand courtyard atrium
News: Frank Gehry has completed his first building in Australia – the Dr Chau Chak Wing building at Sydney's University of Technology, set to open in early 2015 (photos by Peter Bennetts). More about Frank Gehry's Sydney business school completed ahead of 2015 opening
News: Herzog & de Meuron's proposal for the first new skyscraper in Paris for over 40 years has been rejected by councillors in a controversial decision that has been declared invalid by the city's Socialist Party mayor.
More about Herzog & de Meuron's triangular tower rejected by Paris councillors
The zigzagging roof of this family residence in South Korea prompted architecture studio Apparat-C to name it Twin Peaks House (+ slideshow). More about Twin Peaks House by Apparat-C has a zigzagging roof profile
News: first it was a garden bridge to span London's River Thames, now British designer Thomas Heatherwick is proposing a floating island park for the Hudson River in New York (+ slideshow). More about Thomas Heatherwick to build 0 million "treasure island" on New York's Hudson River
News: Melbourne surfers could ride 1.5-metre-high waves within a heated salt-water pool in plans set out by local firm Damian Rogers Architecture for the city's docklands. More about Melbourne floats proposal for artificial surf park
News: Dutch studios Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond have won a competition to redesign the railway station in Assen, north-east Netherlands, with plans for a structure with a triangular latticed roof. More about Assen Station redesign by Powerhouse Company and De Zwarte Hond to feature triangular roof
Gaps in the upside-down barrel-vaulted ceiling of this Japanese church by Takeshi Hosaka funnel slices of light into the concrete-lined hall (+ slideshow). More about Six inverted arches outline the roof of Shonan Christ Church by Takeshi Hosaka
An arched framework of curving pine ribs gives this chapel in Finland by Sanaksenaho Architects a shape more akin to a boat than a building (+ slideshow). More about Copper-clad chapel in Finland has a curving wooden frame like a ship's hull
This muddy-toned timber house by Graz-based Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten is raised on stilts above a sloping site so that it overlooks a swimming pond (+ slideshow). More about Black house by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher is raised above a bathing lake
Australian studio Philip Stejskal Architecture has equipped a white timber extension to a 1890s duplex with shutters and sliding panels that camouflage with the walls when closed. More about House by Philip Stejskal can be "locked down" with shutters that blend into the facade
An angular black roof rests on the concrete and brick walls of this pavilion that architecture studio TAKA designed for a cricket club in Dublin (+ slideshow). More about TAKA completes brick and concrete pavilion for a Dublin cricket club