Herzog & de Meuron has completed its seventh project for Swiss herbal sweet manufacturer Ricola – a herb processing plant with rammed earth walls in the countryside surrounding Laufen. More about Herzog & de Meuron uses rammed earth to create countryside herb centre for Ricola
A folded fabric canopy helps to shade the interior of this glazed extension to a nursery in Paris by local firm h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). More about Nursery extension by h2o Architectes enveloped by a folded fabric sunshade
This gabled concrete visitor centre by local architects Iseppi/Kurath is perched on the edge of a 60-metre gorge in the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More about Concrete visitor centre by Iseppi/Kurath looms over an Alpine gorge
A recital hall covered in aluminium mesh projects from one corner of this timber-clad music and communications centre designed by Mitchell Taylor Workshop for a college in the south of England. More about Mitchell Taylor Workshop pairs timber with aluminium at Berkshire music college
Timber slats cover the angular facades and roof of this community centre in the Bordeaux suburb of Pessac by local studio Gayet-Roger Architects (+ slideshow). More about Faceted timber community centre completed by Gayet-Roger Architects
The disputed territory of the Kashmir Valley becomes a fantasy realm for children, where story-telling pavilions are accompanied by dragons and jinns, in this project by Bartlett architecture graduate Haaris Ramzan (+ slideshow). More about Pavilions based on mythical creatures make up Haaris Ramzan's story-telling guild
Rusty corrugated steel and wood salvaged from an old barn clad the exterior of this L-shaped house designed by American architect Gary Gladwish on Orcas Island, Washington (+ slideshow). More about Eagle Ridge Residence by Gary Gladwish frames a rockery and pond
Vietnamese office a21studio used recycled wood to construct the curving framework of this coffee house, which encircles a courtyard near the city of Nha Trang (+ slideshow). More about Salvaged Ring coffee house by a21studio is built from scrap wood
We're celebrating America's Independence Day today with a roundup of Dezeen's favourite US projects from this year, including a floating skate ramp, a house designed to look like a shadow in the desert and a residence blasted out of the rocks near Seattle (+ slideshow). More about Five of Dezeen's favourite American projects from 2014
A fluted fibreglass wall surrounds this temporary Maggie's Centre in Merseyside, England, designed by London studio Carmody Groarke to offer support to those affected by cancer. More about Maggie's Merseyside by Carmody Groarke features a fluted facade
World Architecture Festival 2014: the shortlist for this year's World Architecture Festival awards has been announced, including a cyclone-proof house, an Australian plant archive, an underground maritime museum by BIG and OMA's colossal De Rotterdam skyscraper (+ slideshow). More about World Architecture Festival 2014 awards shortlist announced
The age-defining rings of a tree stump provided the starting point for this small round house planned by design collective Penda for a wood-carving artist in Beijing (+ slideshow). More about Penda's doughnut-shaped House O is based on the form of a tree stump
The second project on Dezeen today from Swedish architecture office Wingårdhs is an eight-storey residential building constructed entirely from wood in the Stockholm suburb of Sundbyberg. More about Wingårdhs completes prefabricated apartment block built entirely from wood
Children attending this nursery in Spain by Pamplona studio Taller Básico de Arquitectura enter through an angular concrete corridor carved out of the building's faceted shell (+ slideshow). More about Faceted concrete corridor welcomes children to Taller Básico de Arquitectura's nursery
News: Frank Gehry has unveiled yet another reworked design for the proposed skyscraper complex in his home city of Toronto, reducing the number of towers from three to two. More about Gehry scales back Canadian skyscraper scheme to be "more Toronto"
Swedish architecture firm Wingårdhs has completed a university auditorium in a Stockholm suburb with a patterned glass facade that twists and leans over the adjacent street (+ slideshow). More about Glass triangles animate facade of Wingårdh's auditorium for Karolinska Institutet
This pale brick building for Dutch financial services company Rabobank has been purposefully designed by architecture studio Mecanoo to "not look like a bank" (+ slideshow). More about Mecanoo integrates public workspaces within banking centre for Rabobank
The overlapping volumes that comprise this family house outside Barcelona were designed by Spanish studio Mirag with clean white exteriors and bare concrete interiors (+ slideshow). More about Mirag's House in Llavaneres comprises four overlapping white blocks
News: the Design Museum in London has defended its decision to give its Designs of the Year top prize to a Zaha Hadid building in Azerbaijan, following widespread criticisms of the award on human rights grounds. More about Designs of the Year prize "about architecture rather than politics" says Design Museum director
An architecture graduate from the University of Westminster has designed a temporary plywood "temple" for the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. More about Josh Haywood creates temporary "temple" out of plywood for Burning Man Festival