News: MVRDV and fellow Rotterdam studio MorePlatz have been selected to create a pair of dockside office blocks in Mainz, Germany, with designs for buildings featuring zigzagging profiles. More about MVRDV's zigzagging buildings come top in Mainz basin contest
This complex of interlocking white buildings was designed by Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos to house the different activities of Spanish social charity Padre Rubinos (+ slideshow). More about Elsa Urquijo's campus for a Spanish charity is made up of "serene" white buildings
News: Brazilian studio OSPA has won a competition to design a sports education campus in Porto Alegre, with a proposal that includes a floating football pitch (+ slideshow). More about Football pitch hovers above basketball courts in winning UFCSPA campus design
Assorted plants create a blanket of red and green across the undulating roof of this housing block, completed by NL Architects for a newly developed Amsterdam neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about Terraces are cut out of the curved green roof of NL Architects' Funen Blok K
Work is nearing completion on the Amphibious House by Baca Architects – a family home on an island in the middle of the River Thames that can float on rising floodwater like a ship in its dock. More about UK's "first amphibious house" can float on floodwater like a boat in a dock
News: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's new art gallery is nearing completion in downtown Los Angeles – a building that architect Elizabeth Diller says doesn't "try to compete" with Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall next door (+ slideshow). More about The Broad gallery by Diller Scofidio + Renfro speeds towards completion in Los Angeles
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architecture education is failing to understand how technology is changing our cities says Keiichi Matsuda, who foresees the profession “splitting into two parts” thanks to digital advances (+ movie). More about Architects could become "closer to game designers or filmmakers"
London architect Henry Goss has revealed how photo-realistic and 3D visualisations helped shape his design for this house in Hertfordshire, England, which is also the first output from the renderings studio he recently launched with fellow artist Peter Guthrie (+ slideshow). More about Carey House by Henry Goss: "Visualisation played a vital role in design decisions"
The exposed criss-crossing skeleton of this see-through house in Japan frames a labyrinth of wall-less rooms connected by over a dozen different staircases (+ slideshow). More about Yuusuke Karasawa's maze-like S House has an entirely transparent facade
News: architect David Adjaye has submitted plans to overhaul a house in Hackney – made famous by its former resident who dug a warren of tunnels underneath the property – to create a home for artist couple Tim Noble and Sue Webster. More about David Adjaye to transform "Mole Man" house in London into home for artists
News: French architect Marc Mimram has been selected to create a new train station in Montpellier – a building that will bridge over the railway line and feature an intricate pleated roof (+ slideshow). More about Marc Mimram designs "delicate pleated roof" for Montpellier's new TGV station
A freestanding concrete staircase spirals between the floors of this timber-frame and stone building remodelled by the founders of A1 Architects to form their own home and studio in Prague (+ slideshow). More about Charred-timber extension by A1 Architects transforms an old cottage into a home and studio
This giant cube that appears to have landed on its side in the mountains is a proposal by Czech studio Atelier 8000 for a facilities building in Slovakia's High Tatras peaks (+ slideshow). More about Proposed mountain hostel by Atelier 8000 looks like it has crashed into the Earth
Ahead of what would have been the 100th birthday of Brazilian Modernist Lina Bo Bardi, photographer Leonardo Finotti has documented eight of the architect's most important buildings (+ slideshow). More about Lina Bo Bardi's architecture honoured in new photography series by Leonardo Finotti
Three small-scale timber and glass cabins on the Norwegian coast form a holiday home designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter for three generations of the same family. More about Reiulf Ramstad creates three glass-fronted cabins as Norwegian holiday home
News: Chinese architect Li Xiaodong has become the first recipient of the Moriyama Prize – a new award launched by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and architect Raymond Moriyama to rival the Pritzker and Stirling prizes. More about Li Xiaodong wins inaugural Moriyama Prize for "modest" Liyuan Library
News: American architect Richard Meier has unveiled his design for a 163-metre-high skyscraper that is already under construction in the Taiwanese city of Taichung. More about Richard Meier reveals 163-metre skyscraper underway in Taiwan
Double-height lengths of unevenly spaced timber have been added to the side of this Swiss house by Feliz Architects, alluding to the shapes of nearby trees and screening the interiors from harsh sunlight (+ slideshow). More about Villa MM's timber-grille facade echoes the proportions of surrounding trees
Crinkled fibre-cement panels clad the facade of this theatre extension by Finnish studio ALA Architects in the city of Kuopio, complementing the concrete exterior of the original 1960s building (+ slideshow). More about ALA's Kuopio City Theatre extension features a crinkled facade
Strips of timber from the surrounding forest cover the exterior of this hotel in Sweden by Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture, so that it reflects its rural setting (+ slideshow). More about Kjellgren Kaminsky clads Öijared Hotel in timber strips from the nearby forest