Lengths of black-painted timber clad this single-storey holiday home in Japan by Studio Aula, which steps across a wooded site in three volumes of increasing sizes (+ slideshow). More about Blackened timber retreat by Studio Aula built in the woods outside Tokyo
News: after a quarter of a century of decay, a full design team has been appointed to convert the Brutalist ruins of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, into a major venue for art and culture. More about Brutalist seminary to be resurrected in 2015 after 25 years of neglect
News: international heritage body UNESCO has launched a competition to design a cultural centre on the boundary of the Bamiyan Valley site, which housed two giant seventh-century statues of Buddha that were destroyed by Taliban militants in 2001. More about UNESCO launches competition to design cultural centre in war-torn Afghanistan
BAK Arquitectos arranged this concrete house in Argentina around a courtyard containing a shallow pool of water (+ slideshow). More about Stepping stones traverse a pool at the centre of this home by BAK Arquitectos
This minimal concrete and glass pavilion in Flanders, Belgium, by Govaert & Vanhoutte Architectuurburo houses a visitor centre for the world's largest Commonwealth war cemetery, where 11,956 servicemen of the First World War are buried or commemorated (+ slideshow). More about "Serene" concrete pavilion marks the entrance to a First World War cemetery
MVRDV's huge horseshoe-shaped market hall and housing development in Rotterdam is captured in these new images by photographers Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV's Markthal Rotterdam photographed by Hufton + Crow
A curving copper-clad extension punctuated by portholes has been added to a house in Ghent, Belgium, by local studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle, who describe the structure as "a cocktail of science fiction and nostalgia" (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Vens Vanbelle adds "retro-futuristic capsule" to a Belgian home
Architects Nicolas Coeckelberghs and Dorian Vauzelle Mamoth collaborated with local workers in the Moroccan town of Aknaibich to construct this school building using local methods including adobe brickworking (+ slideshow). More about Mud bricks and woven rattan used to build an affordable preschool in Morocco
The consecutive pitched roofs of this church community centre in Germany were designed by Netzwerkarchitekten to make the building resemble a row of terraced houses. More about Netzwerkarchitekten completes community centre with a zigzagging golden roof
Dormer windows rise above the red brick facade of the only modern building on a historic Utrecht street, designed by local office Dreessen Willemse Architecten to house a shop and student residences (+ slideshow). More about Dreessen Willemse adds a modern brick building to a historic Utrecht street
The fragmented gables that make up this children's centre by Danish studio CEBRA feature matching dormer windows that in some places have been extruded, inverted or turned upside down (+ slideshow). More about CEBRA's children's home forms a cluster of archetypal house silhouettes
Inside Festival 2014: architect Gavin Robotham of CRAB Studio explains how the new architecture faculty building at Bond University was designed around the school's curriculum (+ movie). More about Abedian School of Architecture by CRAB Studio was "designed from the inside out"
Paul Smith's flagship store in the South Korean capital is housed in a softly curved white shell punctuated by small circular windows and a bright yellow entrance (+ slideshow). More about Curving concrete shell encases Paul Smith store by System Lab
A grid of muted copper frames the large windows of this slender office building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield for a park-side site in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield's Moganshan Road office building features an all-copper facade
Greek office Kapsimalis Architects has renovated a small white house on the cliffs of a Greek island, adding two roof terraces with plunge pools, and a third and more sizeable swimming pool in the basement (+ slideshow). More about Santorini Island retreat by Kapsimalis Architects features rooftop and underground pools
This concrete oval, designed by Parisian architect Philippe Prost to be "the colour of war", stretches out across the site of one of the world's largest French military cemeteries to commemorate the centenary of the First World War (+ slideshow). More about Philippe Prost's elliptical concrete memorial marks the centenary of World War I
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