Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed an art and culture centre with a chequered timber facade on the banks of the Doubs river in Besançon, France (+ slideshow). More about Besançon Art Centre and Cité de la Musique by Kengo Kuma and Associates
News: London is set to offer a rival to New York's acclaimed High Line park with these competition-winning proposals for a landscaped promenade linking gardens and railways arches along the River Thames. More about Green promenade to provide London's answer to New York's High Line
Renzo Piano has become the latest high-profile architect to add a building to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, by completing a tiny wooden cabin with room for just a single inhabitant. More about Diogene by Renzo Piano at Vitra Campus
Dutch studio MVRDV has transformed the facade of an ageing mixed-use building into a stack of shop windows in Gangnam, the trendy district of Seoul described in the world-famous Korean pop song. More about Chungha in Gangnam by MVRDV
News: British-Iraqi firm AMBS Architects has disclosed its designs for the first public library to be built in Iraq since the 1970s. More about Designs unveiled for new public library in Iraq
News: Zaha Hadid has masterplanned a 276-hectare site beside a lagoon in Izmir for Turkey's bid to host the World Expo 2020. More about Zaha Hadid plans lagoon-side park for Turkey's Expo 2020 bid
Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD is exhibiting architectural models and sculptures in a Beijing courtyard to illustrate his vision for a future city influenced by nature and shaped by human emotion (+ slideshow). More about Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong
News: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has revealed plans to raze the existing buildings of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and replace them with a new solar-powered campus. More about Peter Zumthor unveils redesign for Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This house in Nagahama, Japan, by Tokyo-based Comma Design Office has half of its body raised above the ground to offer protection to a rooftop terrace (+ slideshow). More about House in Nagahama by Comma Design Office
Wooden walls fade from dark red to yellow ochre on the exterior of this house that curves around an oak tree in Sollentuna, Sweden, by architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune (+ slideshow). More about Fagerström House by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Italian design studio Archiplan has installed a series of Corten steel, wood and concrete rest areas and information points along the banks of a river in Italy to enhance views of the surrounding countryside (+ slideshow). More about Cultural landscape path in the Lower Mincio by Archiplan
The faceted surfaces of this library in the French town of Montauban by Paris architecture studio Colboc Franzen & Associés follow the lines of historical roads bordering the site (+ slideshow). More about Montauban multimedia library by Colboc Franzen & Associés
The world's largest solar furnace and wave-reflecting chambers are captured in this series of images documenting the architecture of science and research facilities by British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (+ slideshow). More about SOLAR / ANECHOIC by Alastair Philip Wiper
News: plans to move a museum housing the works of artist Edvard Munch to a new building by Spanish firm Herreros Arquitectos have been formally approved following five years of political dispute. More about Plans approved for new Munch Museum in Oslo
Foster + Partners has completed a 58-storey bowed tower in Calgary, Canada (+ slideshow). More about The Bow by Foster + Partners
News: architect Daniel Libeskind has refuted allegations that he was given an unfair advantage and received unlawful payments for designing a new building at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany, where he is also a part-time professor. More about Daniel Libeskind dismisses "totally false allegations" of unlawful payments
News: toy brand Lego has revealed the design by Danish studio BIG for a visitor centre based on its famous plastic bricks. More about BIG's designs for Lego visitor centre unveiled
News: Zaha Hadid Architects has been appointed to design a new stadium in Qatar that will host matches during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. More about Zaha Hadid Architects to design stadium for Qatar World Cup
An inflatable pavilion covered with a clear tensile membrane has been installed in east London by Paris architects Atelier Zündel Cristea (+ slideshow). More about Peace Pavilion by Atelier Zündel Cristea
News: the fictional bridges depicted on Euro banknotes have been been transformed into reality at a new housing development near Rotterdam. More about Fictional bridges on Euro banknotes constructed in the Netherlands