In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a concrete spiritual enclosure in Mexico designed by Rubén Valdez Practice. More about "Sophistication doesn't always mean complication" says commenter
As the Venice Architecture Biennale continues, we spotlight five country pavilions that reframe soil as a material of the future. More about Five pavilions championing soil at the Venice Architecture Biennale
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the opening of the V&A East Storehouse in London. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features the opening of V&A East Storehouse in London
American architecture studio CetraRuddy and developer Silverstein Properties have released redesigns of a casino and mixed-use complex located on Manhattan's West Side. More about CetraRuddy updates New York casino skyscraper design with "harmonious waves"
Architect Max Otto Zitzelsberger worked with students from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau to create the Learning House, a barn-like teaching building in Bavaria with an exposed timber structure. More about Max Otto Zitzelsberger collaborates with university students on barn-like teaching building in Germany
A linear veranda forms a spine for Cooroy House, an off-grid home built by design duo Henry Bennett and Dan Wilson on a bushland site in Queensland, Australia. More about Australian duo stitch together off-grid Cooroy House with long veranda
Ahead of Norman Foster's 90th birthday this weekend, Dezeen explores how he became the most successful architect the world has ever seen – including by asking the man himself. More about How Norman Foster became the most successful architect in history
Indian studio Prithvi Architects has completed Winterfell, a mud-walled house woven around existing trees and rock formations in the village of Shoolagiri in Tamil Nadu. More about Prithvi Architects winds mud-walled Indian house around existing trees
American architecture studio Populous has been named the primary architect of a plan to redevelop a portion of Oklahoma City into an entertainment district, with NBA player Russell Westbrook serving as creative director. More about Populous and Russell Westbrook behind design of Oklahoma City redevelopment
UK practice Heatherwick Studio has turned a 1950s industrial building in King's Cross, London, into its own office, which is exclusively revealed here. More about Heatherwick Studio "created a new story" for own studio
American studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed V&A East Storehouse, the publicly accessible working storage facility of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro transforms London hangar into V&A East Storehouse
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and US firm Höweler + Yoon Architecture have unveiled their design for a floating plaza, which will form part of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale before relocating to Belém, Brazil. More about Carlo Ratti and Höweler + Yoon design floating AquaPraça plaza for Amazonian bay
Toronto studio Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect has wrapped a gabled house in blackened wood and included wedge-shaped clerestory windows to respond to the lakeside landscape in the Muskoka Region of Ontario. More about Barbora Vokac Taylor includes viewfinder windows on black Ontario cabin
London studio Hugh Strange Architects has restored and extended a hillside Victorian home in Hastings, reinstating its connection to a terraced concrete garden with a series of stepped metal and timber forms. More about Hugh Strange Architects carries out "careful repair" of coastal House on a Hill
A wavy, terracotta lattice stretches along the front of the concrete Iztapalapa PILARES Community Center, which was designed by architectural studio Fernanda Canales to "empower community members". More about Fernanda Canales creates community centre next to Mexico City prison
Architecture practice Studio Saar has built a dairy facility in south Rajasthan, India, using 560 tonnes of reclaimed material including steel and rubble. More about Studio Saar uses reclaimed materials for Gaushala dairy facility in India
Architecture studio Hawkins\Brown and engineering firm Webb Yates have created two hyperbolic arches made from bricks of unwanted stone at Clerkenwell Design Week in London. More about Single layer of stone brick forms arched installation by Hawkins\Brown and Webb Yates
Mexican architect Ignacio Urquiza and interior designer Ana Paula de Alba have perched a complex of four houses atop an elevated rocky outcrop in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. More about Nature defines quartet of houses on Mexican hilltop
French studio Chatillon Architectes has transformed a 1950s post office in Brittany into flats, adding an extension with a glass-brick facade. More about Chatillon Architectes turns Brest Post Office into flats with glass-brick facade
From textured lilac to postbox red, the 10 colourful houses in our latest roundup are united by facades designed to stand out from the crowd. More about Ten colourful houses vying for attention