Japanese studio Aoki Jun and Associates redesigned the facade of the Louis Vuitton store in the Ginza district of Tokyo with a patterned and perforated shell based on the brand's monogram. More about Aoki Jun and Associates complete perforated monogrammed facade for Louis Vuitton Tokyo
Small slots based on the position of constellations puncture the walls of this South African house by Openstudio Architects, bringing light in during the day and offering starry views at night (+ slideshow). More about Slot windows offer starry views from Swartberg House by Openstudio Architects
Brutalism: the design for the clover-shaped tower of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago was enabled by the pioneering application of one of the earliest three-dimensional modelling programmes. With its curving form, Goldberg made a clear break away from the grid formations favoured in Modernist architecture. More about Brutalist buildings: Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago by Bertrand Goldberg & Associates
News: Spanish architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo has abruptly stepped down from his post as dean of Princeton's School of Architecture to "devote greater attention to his research", just two years after taking the post. More about Alejandro Zaera-Polo steps down as dean of Princeton Architecture School
News: a team comprising Danish architects COBE and Finnish firm Lundén Architecture has won a competition to design a new transport centre for Tampere, Finland's second-largest city. More about COBE and Lunden win competition to design new transport hub for Finland's second city
World Architecture Festival 2014: an apostrophe-shaped bridge in a British industrial city and a pair of structures at a sustainable forest in Australia feature in the second group of category winners for awards at this year's World Architecture Festival in Singapore (+ slideshow). More about World Architecture Festival 2014 day two winners announced
News: a proposal for a new east-west cycleway that would float on the River Thames has been unveiled by a consortium of architects, artists and engineers formed to promote the development of better cycling links in London. More about Floating cycle path proposed for London's River Thames
These timber and bamboo huts were designed by Agora Architects to offer temporary accommodation to refugees arriving in Thailand from across the Burmese border (+ slideshow). More about Teak and bamboo structures accommodate Burmese refugees in a Thai village
Movie: in this exclusive interview, architect Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how the firm developed the distinctive curving arch design of the Markthal in Rotterdam, which opened today. More about MVRDV designed the Markthal Rotterdam to be "as proud as possible"
News: Markthal Rotterdam, the covered food market and housing development shaped like a giant arch by Dutch architects MVRDV, has officially opened today after five years of construction (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV's Markthal Rotterdam opens
World Architecture Festival 2014: a house with trees growing on the rooftops and a library where bookshelves and stairs wrap a triple-height atrium are among today's award winners at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. More about World Architecture Festival 2014 day one winners announced
A secluded passage extends along one edge of this house in Japan by Alts Design Office, bringing natural light into the interior (+ slideshow). More about House in a car park by Alts Design Office hides a covered passage behind its walls
British firm Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT II have completed a moving footbridge in Paddington, London, that opens and closes like the blades of a traditional hand-held fan. More about London's latest canal bridge rises and falls like the opening and closing of a fan
Prefabricated brick panels create decorative cladding that complements the existing 1970s buildings surrounding this new facility for the Danish Meat Research Institute designed by CF Møller for a campus near Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More about CF Møller completes red brick facility for the Danish Meat Research Institute
Architect Jô Vasconcellos has connected blue boxes of different dimensions in a long line to form this museum dedicated to Brazil's most popular alcoholic spirit, cachaça, in the city of Salinas (+ slideshow). More about Cachaça Museum by Jô Vasconcellos has bright blue blocky facades
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the third extract from our latest book, London-based architect David Adjaye discusses his longstanding fascination with Africa and the opportunities it holds for architects. More about David Adjaye: "Africa offers an extraordinary opportunity"
Architects Marina Stassinopoulos and Konstantios Daskalakis have slotted a house with three courtyards around existing oak trees on the Greek island of Kea (+ slideshow). More about House in Kea is a concrete residence built around oak trees on a Greek isle
Hong Kong studio Rural Urban Framework has completed a grey-brick hospital in the Chinese village of Angdong that is intended to set a benchmark for health facilities in rural areas (+ slideshow). More about Hospital for a rural Chinese community features a ramp that slopes up to the roof
This gabled extension to a brick house in the Netherlands was designed by Studio Prototype to mimic the shape of the original property but is clad in an entirely different material. More about House W extension by Studio Prototype contrasts stripy cedar with original brickwork
This coastal home in Chile by architect Gonzalo Mardones Viviani is set down into a cliff so as not to disrupt sea views from the road running alongside (+ slideshow). More about Casa MO by Gonzalo Mardones Viviani nestles against the coastline in Chile