This small house in the French city of Tours by local architecture office Atelier 100architecture features a material palette of zinc panels, plaster and wooden boards that references its historical neighbours. More about Atelier 100architecture slots contemporary house into French medieval city centre
Waist-high partitions divide up the top floor of this mostly windowless house in Japan, framing different activities without cutting off light to any of the spaces (+ slideshow). More about Katsutoshi Sasaki's House in Hanekita contains a grid of half-height walls
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The two main buildings of this Portuguese holiday complex by I-da Arquitectos are dug into a hillside, partly burying them in the sloping terrain (+ slideshow). More about I-da Arquitectos sinks holiday apartments into the Portuguese countryside
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: advances in 3D-scanning technology could enable virtual tourism by providing a "life-like experience" of faraway places says architect Pernilla Ohrstedt (+ movie). More about Future tourists could "travel the virtual world instead of the physical"
Barber and Osgerby's architecture firm Universal Design Studio has completed a gallery for London's Science Museum dedicated to communications technology (+ slideshow). More about Barber and Osgerby's Science Museum gallery is their "most important" architecture project
This wooden platform that rises up from a barley field in Mallorca gives a young equestrian a space for contemplation and grooming before and after horse riding (+ slideshow). More about Grooming retreat in Mallorca offers "ritual of self-cleansing" before and after horse riding
News: Frank Gehry has responded to criticism of his own architectural style by giving an audience of journalists the middle finger and saying that most architecture today has "no sense of design". More about "98% of what gets built today is shit" says Frank Gehry
The stepped rooftops and industrial details of these Parisian council blocks by Colboc Franzen & Associés are designed to integrate the scheme with the neighbouring buildings (+ slideshow). More about Colboc Franzen's Parisian social housing matches the proportions of its 1930s neighbours
Interview: the UK is a difficult place to "do architecture" thanks to the dominance of the commercial sector and a lack of government investment says British architect David Chipperfield, whose firm is refurbishing Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. More about The UK "is not interested in funding" public buildings says David Chipperfield
Opinion: the refurbishment of London's Imperial War Museum by Norman Foster is a "botched" job, but it's hardly surprising given the UK's strange attitude to its own history, says Owen Hatherley. More about "So spectacularly ill-judged that you almost long for Libeskind's earnestness"
News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plans to redevelop the Basel campus of Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche, adding a 205-metre-high tower and a research centre (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron unveils Basel campus redesign for Roche healthcare
Dozens of rectangular openings reveal a glazed inner skin behind the yellow granite facade of this canteen building, designed by German studio Knowspace for a Chinese research campus (+ slideshow). More about Canteen building by Knowspace features a granite facade "like lychee skin"
Charred Japanese cedar clads the exterior of this split-level house in Izumo, Japan, by Kanazawa studio Harunatsu-Arch (+ slideshow). More about Blackened timber house by Harunatsu-Arch is divided by a stepped floor
News: British studio OS31 has won a competition to design a pop-up restaurant on the surface of a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada. More about Pop-up restaurant by OS31 will be built over a frozen river
A timber framework echoing the shape of an old lock-keeper's cottage has been installed on both sides of a canal in London's Olympic Park to host a two-month programme of events (+ slideshow). More about Skeletal pavilion shaped like a lock keeper's cottage pops up in London's Olympic Park
White stuccoed walls and terracotta tiled roofing create a visual connection between the simplified volumes of this small house in a Portuguese vineyard and traditional agricultural buildings nearby (+ slideshow). More about SAMF reinterprets traditional Portuguese farmhouses with Casa dos Caseiros
World Architecture Festival 2014: clustered lengths of bamboo create a forest of columns in the open-air dining room of this Vietnam restaurant by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia's Son La Restaurant hides a "bamboo forest" behind stone pavilions
News: Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster have been selected to design high-rise hotels in China for Jumeirah Group. More about Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster chosen to design Chinese hotels
Chinese architect Li Xiaodong, the recipient of the inaugural Moriyama Prize, completed this building with an elaborate brickwork facade to create offices and dormitories at a building site in Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). More about Criss-crossing bricks give a perforated facade to mountainside building by Li Xiaodong
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects designed this wedge-shaped museum near Aarhus with a planted roof that rises from the sloping landscape to create a site for picnics in summer and sledging in winter (+ slideshow). More about Visitors to Henning Larsen's Moesgaard Museum can walk over its grassy sloping roof