Movie: Konrad Buhagiar of Architecture Project explains how he built a 60 metre-high outdoor lift in historic Valletta, Malta, in our latest interview with category winners at last month's Inside Festival in Singapore. More about Malta's 20-storey outdoor lift was designed to look "like an old building"
An elaborate facade comprising curved edges, deep recesses and sliced windows wraps this 135-metre skyscraper by Dutch office UNStudio in Singapore (+ slideshow). More about Ardmore Residence skyscraper in Singapore by UNStudio
News: One World Trade Center in New York has been officially declared tallest building in the western hemisphere, following a debate over whether the spire can contribute to its overall height. More about One World Trade Center named tallest skyscraper in western hemisphere
This cluster of gabled buildings by Hungarian office Bord Architectural Studio provides new tasting rooms for a winery in Hungary's Etyek-Buda region (+ slideshow). More about Esterházy Etyeki Kúria Winery with gabled rooftops by Bord Architectural Studio
News: a manipulated photo showing Foster + Partners' Gherkin skyscraper as a flaccid phallus has been used by a UK pharmacy chain to advertise erectile dysfunction treatment. More about Foster's flaccid Gherkin used to advertise erectile dysfunction treatment
Rounded lettering frames windows on the facade of this primary school in Bangalore by Indian firm Cadence (+ slideshow). More about Cassata primary school with lettering on its facade by Cadence
Dutch firm MVRDV has unveiled images of a tennis clubhouse with seating on the roof, which is to begin construction later this month in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More about Clubhouse for Tennisclub IJburg with seats on its roof by MVRDV
East London firm Studio 54 Architecture updated the facade of this house in a London mews by replacing a decorative gable with an austere black box and grey-painted brickwork. More about 17a Highbury Terrace Mews renovation by Studio 54 Architecture
The industrial materials used to construct this church in Seville, Spain, make it look more like an edge-of-town manufacturing plant than a place for worship (+ slideshow). More about La Ascensión del Señor by AGi architects looks more like a factory than a church
News: British architects are enjoying their busiest period since the financial crisis began in 2008, while the Italian market looks set to decline by 14% this year, according to new industry research from Arch-Vision. More about British architecture "showing a clear recovery"
Swiss architecture firm Bureau A created a seven-storey mobile performance space and street kitchen, mounted it on a tricycle and rode it round the streets of Hanoi in Vietnam (+ movie). More about Ta đi Ôtô mini-skyscraper on a tricycle by Bureau A
This secondary school in Germany by Behnisch Architekten features a spectacular combined quadruple-height atrium and assembly hall (+ slideshow). More about Secondary School Ergolding with quadruple-height assembly hall by Behnisch Architekten
News: Swiss studio Virtual Design Unit has created a computer model of an unbuilt Zurich theatre designed by Jørn Utzon in 1964, to show that the building "could be built now" (+ slideshow + interview). More about Jørn Utzon's unbuilt Schauspielhaus digitally resurrected by Virtual Design Unit
The spiky modules used to build this curving pavilion in Stuttgart, Germany, are made from a bioplastic containing over 90 percent renewable materials (photography by Roland Halbe). More about ArboSkin pavilion made from bioplastic by ITKE
News: ten years after declaring he wanted to "kill the skyscraper", architect Rem Koolhaas has accepted an award for the best tall building of the year and joked: "my campaign was completely unsuccessful". More about Rem "Kill the skyscraper" Koolhaas wins tall building award
One corner of this airport terminal in Kutaisi, Georgia, by Dutch firm UNStudio is coloured bright red to aid orientation (+ slideshow). More about Kutaisi International Airport by UNStudio
The rooms of this wooden house in a forest near Madrid by local architects FRPO branch off in different directions to slot into gaps between the trees (+ slideshow). More about MO House in the woods by FRPO
This house in Tokyo by Japanese studio Case-Real is rectangular at the front and hexagonal at the back (+ slideshow). More about House in Tsurumaki with a hexagonal living room by Case-Real
Architecture firm Grimshaw has completed an ecological park in South Korea where tropical plants, waterfalls and penguins are housed within huge glass and steel biomes (+ slideshow). More about National Ecology Center botanic greenhouses by Grimshaw and Samoo
News: the Australian Institute of Architects has announced 38 winners of this year's National Architecture Awards, including a pointy artists' studio in Japan, a bright blue stadium in Perth and a Melbourne university building covered in scales. More about Australian National Architecture Awards 2013 winners announced