Perforated bricks soften the facade and provide privacy for the owners of this Melbourne house by Australian studio Inglis Architects (+ slideshow). More about Perforated bricks offer privacy for Melbourne house by Inglis Architects
A stack of ceramic-clad boxes forms this monolithic swimming pool complex in the Netherlands by Slangen+Koenis Architecten (+ slideshow). More about Chequered facade surrounds swimming pool complex by Slangen+Koenis Architecten
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Japanese studio Yuji Kimura Design has hidden this Tokyo house behind a tall white wall to maintain the residents' privacy (+ slideshow). More about Yuji Kimura Design conceals terraces at House K behind a tall wall
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the Korean Pavilion curated by Mass Studies founder Minsuk Cho has been awarded the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. More about Korea wins Golden Lion for best pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: visitors to Kosovo's exhibition at the Venice Biennale can walk inside a spiky circular tower built from 692 wooden stools (+ slideshow). More about Kosovo Pavilion explores "erasure of regional identity" with spiky tower installation
Slovakian studio JRKVC has designed a small house near Bratislava with one gable wall entirely glazed to fill the interior with light (+ slideshow). More about Slovakian house by JRKVC features a glazed gable wall
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Mass Studies founder Minsuk Cho curates an "epic-scale show about both Koreas" with one of the most politically ambitious projects at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale (+ interview + slideshow). More about Mass Studies brings together North and South Korea with Venice biennale pavilion
Golden louvred shutters add a warm contrast to the otherwise monochrome facades of this child welfare facility in Paris by French architects Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Verons Associates (+ slideshow). More about Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Verons Associates completes child welfare facility in Paris
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the Elements exhibition focusses on architectural components such as elevators and escalators, which "have never really been incorporated into either the ideology or the theory of architecture," says curator Rem Koolhaas (+ movie). More about Rem Koolhaas' Elements exhibition in Venice aims to "modernise architectural thinking"
San Francisco office Fougeron Architecture has designed a house in California that steps down the side of a cliff and projects over the edge. More about Fall House by Fougeron Architecture steps down a cliff side
German architecture collective Modulorbeat stacked concrete components normally used for mine shafts to create a tower housing a tiny sauna on the outskirts of the city of Bochum. More about Modulorbeat creates One Man Sauna inside a stacked concrete tower
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: four machines trace patterns in piles of sand to reveal plans of buildings, neighbourhoods and cities in this installation at the Israeli Pavilion (+ slideshow). More about Israeli Pavilion uses "sand printers" to trace plans of urban sprawl
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: leading international critics and curators have given Dezeen their verdicts on Fundamentals, the architecture biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas, variously describing it as "accomplished", "brilliant" and "taking the piss". More about Critics give verdicts on Rem's Venice Architecture Biennale "without any architecture in sight"
Copper panels and local timber clad the exterior of this houseboat in the Netherlands by BYTR Architects, which is moored beside a wooded parkland (+ slideshow). More about Copper-clad ParkArk houseboat by BYTR Architects floats on a Dutch canal
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the British pavilion at the biennale charts the nation's Modernism using a fluorescent pink mound of earth, a galloping horse made from LEDs, imagery of social housing and a pair of concrete model cows (+ slideshow). More about FAT bring together postwar towns and pop culture for British Pavilion in Venice
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: rows of curving translucent panels evoking mountains in traditional Chinese paintings surround scale models of MAD's Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center at this installation in Venice (+ slideshow). More about MAD presents Nanjing masterplan at mountain-like Venice installation
News: department store Selfridges has appointed British architect David Chipperfield to redesign the east side of its flagship store on London's Oxford Street. More about David Chipperfield to overhaul London's Selfridges department store
A curving concrete canopy supported by hundreds of columns loops around the perimeter of this renovated beach club in the Azerbaijani capital Baku by Istanbul architects Erginoğlu & Çalışlar (+ slideshow). More about Meandering concrete roof shelters walkways at Erginoğlu & Çalışlar's renovated beach club
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: this year's biennale avoids contemporary architecture and has "nothing to do with design," curator Rem Koolhaas said yesterday while conducting a preview tour. More about "Scary" Venice Architecture Biennale show has "nothing to do with design" says Koolhaas