This renovation of a crumbling 1960s tower block in Paris nicknamed "Alcatraz" topped the architecture category of this year's Designs of the Year Awards and is in the running for the top prize to be announced tonight (+ slideshow). More about Tour Bois-le-Prêtre by Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
This little house in Tokyo by Japanese studio PANDA has a triangular courtyard and an L-shaped roof terrace tucked behind its walls (+ slideshow). More about NN-House by PANDA
News: work has started on a football stadium in Bordeaux, France, by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. More about Construction begins on Bordeaux stadium by Herzog & de Meuron
In the first in a series of Dezeen movies about the 2013 World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival, programme director Paul Finch introduces the events and gives a recap of last year's winning projects. More about World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival: save 10% on entry fee
News: the world's first building to be powered entirely by algae is being piloted in Hamburg, Germany, by engineering firm Arup. More about Arup unveils world's first algae-powered building
Milwaukee office Johnsen Schmaling Architects chose a palette of bare concrete, cedar and anodised metal to construct this small family retreat in a remote Wisconsin forest (+ slideshow). More about Stacked Cabin by Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Rooms are contained within wooden boxes inside this long and low concrete house in Brazil by architecture office Studio MK27 (+ slideshow). More about Casa Lee by Studio MK27
Dutch studio Personal Architecture has overhauled a traditional townhouse in The Hague by adding mezzanine floors, a glass elevation, a triple-height kitchen and a spiral staircase. More about Joyce & Jeroen House renovation by Personal Architecture
News: Frank Gehry has launched his studio's paperless system for sharing and collaborating on drawings as a scaled-up product for the architecture industry. More about Gehry shares digital system for "paperless buildings"
News: the iconic 1920s Moscow home of Russian avant-garde architect Konstantin Melnikov is showing signs of serious structural damage as work continues on a large complex next door, warn heritage experts and international architects including Rem Koolhaas and Álvaro Siza. More about Melnikov House at risk of collapse, warn architects and heritage experts
Dutch studio Maxwan has renovated a thatched house in the seaside town of Noordwijk in the Netherlands and added concrete and glass protrusions to the front and back (+ slideshow). More about House N by Maxwan
With all eyes on Rio ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian firm Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura has grouped three disused buildings under an undulating roof to create a new art museum and art school (+ slideshow + photographs by Leonardo Finotti). More about Museu de Arte do Rio by Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura
News: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to raze the former American Folk Art Museum next door just 12 years after its completion by US architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. More about MoMA to demolish Williams and Tsien folk art museum
News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named the ten winners of its annual Small Project Awards, including a concept for a house in the desert with four bedroom towers (above) and a concrete playground pavilion with hidden chimneys (below). More about AIA Small Project Awards winners announced
This rusted steel cabin in Wisconsin woodland is a practice studio for a musician designed by Milwaukee office Johnsen Schmaling Architects. More about Studio for a Composer by Johnsen Schmaling Architects
Chinese studio MAD has unveiled the first photographs of its icicle-shaped museum for wooden sculptures in Harbin, northeast China (+ slideshow). More about China Wood Sculpture Museum by MAD
News: Italian architect Paolo Soleri, whose vision of an environmentally conscious form of architecture led to the founding of an experimental eco-town in Arizona, has died at the age of 93. More about Paolo Soleri 1919-2013
OMA's new Tokyo store for American accessories brand Coach is a glazed cube with a herringbone-patterned display system (+ slideshow). More about Coach Omotesando by OMA
Five aluminium-clad volumes are stacked up like a pile of horizontal skyscrapers at this office complex outside Oslo by Norwegian studio A-Lab (+ slideshow). More about Statoil regional and international offices by A-Lab
This timber-clad house by Dutch office Marc Prosman Architecten was one of the first to be constructed on an artificial island in IJburg, Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More about IJburg Villa by Marc Prosman Architecten