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This year's US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores porches as an archetype of American architecture, with a zigzagging mass-timber canopy forming a shelter outside its neoclassical building. More about Mass timber forms "contemporary porch" at US Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale
Books help to brace the lightweight frame of La Libreria, a demountable library created by US studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates temporary translucent library at Venice Architecture Biennale
Selldorf Architects' renovation of the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing has eradicated most of the building's postmodern charm, writes Robert Bevan. More about "The fears raised by those original renderings have been fully realised"
Architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a power plant in Shenzhen, China, that is topped with a rooftop walkway. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen tops Shenzhen Energy Ring with rooftop walkway
Chilean studio Elemental has collaborated with building materials company Holcim to present a stripped-back incremental housing prototype at the Venice Architecture Biennale that is built of concrete made with biochar and recycled aggregate. More about Elemental presents "most radical" incremental housing design in Venice
A curlicued brutalist hotel whose facade resembles two faces kissing and a bank crowned with towers informed by clay castles are among the modernist buildings celebrated in Togo's first-ever Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion. More about Togo centres its "eccentric" modernist architecture in Venice Biennale debut
Chiselled stone walls and vast stretches of glass define a coastal California home by US studio Field Architecture, which was designed to "bring the residents closer to nature with every turn". More about Field Architecture perches Big Sur House on bluff overlooking the ocean
Boston architecture studio Safdie Architects has designed a reimagined downtown "urban heart" for Portland, Maine, USA, centred around a 30-storey skyscraper designed to reference coastal architecture. More about Safdie Architects designs Maine's tallest building to resemble a lighthouse
Proposals by Foster + Partners, Heatherwick Studio and WilkinsonEyre for a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II near Buckingham Palace in London have been revealed. More about Queen Elizabeth II memorial proposals revealed
London's Victoria and Albert museum and American studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro have collaborated on an exhibition on the architecture of storage at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, unveiled exclusively here. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro directs film on storage for V&A exhibition at Venice biennale
Two exhibition spaces exploring learnings from Amazonian architectural practices have been installed within the Brazil pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Brazil pavilion learns from Amazonian architectural practices
Promotion: Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Norman Foster, academics Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, artist Theaster Gates and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist are set to take part in the 24th edition of Triennale Milano International Exhibition. More about Triennale Milano's 24th International Exhibition to focus on Inequalities
Curators from the UK and Kenya have overhauled the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed as part of our day of exclusive online openings, with installations that aim to reconnect architecture with the earth. More about British Pavilion cloaked in veil of clay beads at Venice Architecture Biennale
Curator Amanda Pinatih and designer Gabriel Fontana have transformed the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale into a sports bar, revealed today as part of our day of exclusive online pavilion openings. More about The Netherlands creates sports bar at Venice Architecture Biennale
The traditional purpose of an architecture biennale has disappeared, this year's Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti has told Dezeen ahead of the event's opening this weekend. More about "Dezeen killed the traditional form of the biennale" says Venice Architecture Biennale curator
The Nordic Countries Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively on Dezeen, aims to use the trans experience to investigate modernist architecture. More about Nordic pavilion examines modernist architecture "through the lens of trans experience"
Fifteen designs have been shortlisted for the Shaping Water Competition, which invited ideas for a large-scale installation celebrating the essence of water for Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Fifteen designs shortlisted for the Shaping Water Competition
The German pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively here, has turned urban climate change into a "physical and psychological experience" by creating contrasting stress and de-stress rooms. More about German pavilion stress-tests people at Venice Architecture Biennale
More than 200 plants feature inside the Belgian Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, revealed today in our series of exclusive digital pavilion openings. More about Belgian Pavilion becomes "a living laboratory" at Venice Architecture Biennale