A clay-based black paint forms a protective layer across the facade of this woodland cabin in Finland, designed by Playa Architects as the second home for a Finnish family living abroad (+ slideshow). More about Villa Kettukallio by Playa Architects provides a woodland holiday home
This wooden observation platform and pavilion emerges from the landscape of a memorial park in Koknese, Latvia, offering views across the River Daugava (+ slideshow). More about Wooden viewing platform looks out over Latvia's River Daugava
Mirrored walls and projecting staircases create optical illusions inside the brick-lined atrium of this apartment complex in Ghent, Belgium, by local office Atelier Vens Vanbelle. More about Gewad apartment block by Atelier Vens Vanbelle features brick walls and a mirrored atrium
Japanese architect Eto Kenta has hidden a narrow garden behind the metal-clad exterior of this house in Ōita Prefecture, Japan (+ slideshow). More about Metal-clad house in Japan by Eto Kenta conceals its garden
This zigzagging house in Australia by Iredale Pedersen Hook is raised above the ground on stilts to minimise its impact on the native landscape and wildlife (+ slideshow). More about Nannup Holiday House by Iredale Pedersen Hook rises above the Australian bush on stilts
This bright white house in Portugal by GSMM Architetti uses the trees on its hillside site to create a sense of intimacy, providing a counterbalance for the openness of its central courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Hillside hideaway by GSMM Architetti features a courtyard for stargazing
News: young architects are becoming disillusioned with commercial work and instead turning to humanitarian projects, according to 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban (+ interview). More about Architectural culture is "moving in two directions" says Shigeru Ban
Thick walls made from locally sourced stone frame courtyards and corridors at this radio broadcasting station in the Nepalese town of Jomsom, designed by Korean studio Archium (+ slideshow). More about Archium gives rugged stone walls to a radio broadcasting station in Nepal
American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed this wooden lodge as the holiday home for a family at the Kicking Horse Mountain ski resort in Canada (+ slideshow). More about Kicking Horse Residence provides a holiday home at a Canadian ski resort
News: architect Daniel Libeskind has hit back at his critics, comparing his own work to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and saying that he doesn't try to be liked, at the launch of an exhibition in Milan this week. More about Ignore the critics – Beethoven was "a failure" in their eyes too, says Daniel Libeskind
This house in London by local studio De Matos Ryan sits within a sunken courtyard, surrounded by a secret flower garden (+ slideshow). More about Sunken house by De Matos Ryan nestles in a secret garden
This weekend cabin in a Washington national park, by Seattle architect Tom Kundig, features a protective steel exterior that slides across its windows and a floor raised up on stilts to prevent flooding. More about Tom Kundig creates "virtually indestructible" steel cabin on stilts
Eight intersecting arches give a towering symmetry to this copper-coated mausoleum erected in the English countryside for a revered Iranian philosopher (photography by Edmund Sumner). More about Towering copper memorial by Borheh honours an Iranian philosopher
A concrete tunnel slices through the base of this Tokyo house by Japanese architect Makiko Tsukada, creating a round hole in the facade that reveals the underside of a staircase (+ slideshow). More about Curving concrete creates a tunnel through Tokyo house by Makiko Tsukada
News: Herzog & de Meuron has won a competition to design a hospital in a Danish forest, with plans for a building shaped like a four-leaf clover (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron wins contest for Danish forest hospital
Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed a major new concert venue and music school in the Danish city of Aalborg, which claims to be "one of the quietest spaces for symphonic music in Europe" (+ slideshow). More about Coop Himmelb(l)au's House of Music invites orchestras to Aalborg
News: "An architecture challenge doesn't come much better than this," says David Chipperfield, who has been named winner in the competition to design a new home for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield triumphs in Nobel Center competition
Children can clamber onto the curved roof of this community library in China, which architects John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere designed for an earthquake-damaged village in Yunnan Province (+ slideshow) More about Community library in China turns a roof into a playground
An austere concrete wall screens the transparent lower floor of this house in southern Brazil, while the overhanging upper storey is masked behind a layer of timber slats (photos by Leonardo Finotti + slideshow). More about MAPA's XAN House in Brazil combines raw concrete with slatted timber
Laser-cut stainless steel creates an intricately patterned surface on the walls of this upgraded metro station in Amsterdam by architecture firm Maccreanor Lavington (+ slideshow). More about Maccreanor Lavington overhauls Amsterdam's Kraaiennest metro station