News: the V&A Museum will collaborate with developer China Merchants Group on content for the Shekou Museum in Shenzhen designed by Tokyo architect Fumihiko Maki. More about Fumihiko Maki designs China's "first major museum of design"
A protruding gable creates bay windows and an indoor balcony within this symmetrical house in northern Spain, by local studio Creus e Carrasco (+ slideshow). More about Creus e Carrasco gives a folded facade to Chao House in Spain
Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic used seven tailgate doors from Audi TT sports cars to create a mobile pavilion with seven futuristic entrances, for this year's Design Miami/Basel fair. More about Konstantin Grcic builds Design Miami/Basel pavilion using Audi TT parts
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for the A' Design Awards, an annual design competition that covers over 100 disciplines. More about Call for entries to the A' Design Award and Competition 2015
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: in the third part of our video interview with Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect claims the "architecture biennale was becoming very similar to the art biennale" and says he chose to eschew contemporary architecture to set his curation apart. More about Rem Koolhaas: I wanted my biennale to "disconnect from contemporary architecture"
England's nail-biting World Cup football match against Italy on Saturday took place inside this basket-inspired stadium designed by German firm GMP Architekten in a city in the middle of the Amazon rainforest (+ slideshow). More about Manaus stadium by GMP Architekten hosts four World Cup football matches
Stacked concrete and timber boxes frame the rooms of this guesthouse near Australia's Great Ocean Road, by Melbourne studio Whiting Architects. More about Australian guesthouse by Whiting Architects made up of staggered concrete and timber boxes
Danish restaurant Noma commissioned Polyform Architects to create a landscape based on Nordic terroir to give pilgrims to the world's best restaurant a taste of what's inside, without disturbing diners (+ slideshow). More about Polyform creates a mini Nordic landscape at the world's best restaurant
News: British studio Chetwoods has unveiled a proposal to create the world's tallest tower in the Chinese city of Wuhan, with a host of environmental functions that will attempt to purify the city's polluted air and lakes. More about Chetwoods creates "blatantly iconic" kilometre-tall tower to act as environmental filter for Wuhan
Vienna-based studio Franz Architekten references brass instruments with this golden music hall in Austria, clad with a diagonal grid of square aluminium panels (+ slideshow). More about Franz Architekten creates golden chequerboard on Goldstück music hall facade
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: architect Jimenez Lai has filled a Venetian palazzo with nine colourful structures representing different domestic functions, including a House for Pleasure and a House of Shit (+ interview + slideshow). More about Jimenez Lai explores domestic cultures of Taiwan with colourful "houses" installation
Amsterdam office NL Architects added angular windows to the facade of this sports centre in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, to frame views of three climbing walls inside (+ slideshow). More about Cave-like apertures frame climbing walls at NL Architects' Spordtgebouw sports centre
A mixture of large and small windows puncture the cedar-clad facade of this house by French studio Atelier Delphine Carrère, to both frame views and maintain privacy (+ slideshow). More about Big and small windows balance views with privacy at Atelier Delphine Carrère's Villa Chiberta
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: visitors can examine soapstone carvings and peer through narrow peepholes inside Canada's biennale pavilion, which focusses on architecture's role in the Inuit communities of Nunavut – the country's youngest and most northerly territory. More about Canadian Pavilion examines move "from igloos to internet" in Inuit communities
Reiach and Hall Architects have used grey bricks to create a sombre, respectful facade for the Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre near the Scottish city of Stirling (+ slideshow). More about Reiach and Hall gives sober facade to Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: architect Anssi Lassila has installed two huts outside the Finnish Pavilion at the Venice biennale – the first was built from spruce by a Finnish carpenter while the second was put together from bamboo by a team in China. More about Wooden huts demonstrate regional building techniques at the Finnish Pavilion
News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has said he intends to work on fewer projects and may reduce the size of his office following his acceptance of the Pritzker Prize, which he says he did not expect to win. More about Shigeru Ban to do "smaller number of projects" following Pritzker Prize award
Lisbon firm Topiaris Landscape Architecture has extended a 700-metre long timber walkway through wild riverside scrubland to connect a new Portuguese public park with a bird observatory (+ movie). More about Riverside park by Topiaris Landscape Architecture features a boardwalk and a bird observatory
Dutch studio Möhn + Bouman Architects has given a facelift to an institutional-looking care centre near Rotterdam by covering the facade in fencing made from chestnut wood (+ slideshow). More about Möhn + Bouman Architects uses wooden fencing to update care centre facade
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Rem Koolhaas explains the concept behind his Monditalia exhibition, in which dancers and musicians perform amongst the architectural exhibits, in the second part of our video interview filmed in Venice. More about Rem Koolhaas uses architecture, dance and film to represent the "current condition of Italy"