Dezeen promotion: last week, Dezeen attended an architectural tour of Basel and Zurich organised by Swiss bathroom brand Laufen that included a trip to their concrete showroom designed by Nissen Wentzlaff Architects. More about Laufen Swiss Architecture tour
Construction has started on a new sports centre by architect Steven Holl for Columbia University in New York. More about Campbell Sports Centre by Steven Holl Architects
London architects Carmody Groarke arranged temporary timber pavilions around the trees in Regent’s Park for this year’s Frieze Art Fair. More about Frieze Art Fair Pavilions by Carmody Groarke
Clay bricks infused with metal shavings make up the orthogonal exterior of an office and warehouse in Amsterdam designed by a graphic design agency. More about Fort Cortina by Karelse & den Besten
Architects 00:/ and Space Station have designed digital advert-covered offices to straddle Old Street roundabout, located down the road from Dezeen's offices in London and dubbed Silicon Roundabout due to the number of technology companies and start-ups in the area. More about Startup City by 00:/ and Space Station
Dezeen Wire: Copenhagen studio Bystrup have won the RIBA competition to design new electricity pylons for the UK with their T-shaped proposals. More about Bystrup win Pylon for the Future competition
This house in Nagoya by Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata has five roofs that pitch in opposing directions. More about Complex House by Tomohiro Hata
London studio Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a housing complex for the western outskirts of Paris. More about Housing for Jardins de l’Arche by Farshid Moussavi Architecture
In this third movie in our series of interviews with OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas he talks about his new book Project Japan, Metabolism Talks... written in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. More about Rem Koolhaas on Project Japan, his book about Japanese metabolist architecture
Residents have to go careful on the roof terrace of this Portuguese house, where gaping chasms drop down to basement courtyards two floors below. More about House in Leiria by ARX Portugal
Austrian studio [tp3] architekten have completed a stark white house in northern Austria with translucent sliding walls around a grassy courtyard. More about House SL by [tp3] architekten
Dutch studio architecten|en|en have created a home office in Eindhoven by wrapping a garage in corrugated aluminium. More about Studio R-1 by architecten|en|en
Portuguese photographer José Campos has sent us these photos of Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall, which is currently under construction in Hamburg and due for completion in 2013. More about Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
In the second instalment of our video interview with Rem Koolhaas, the OMA co-founder discusses two of his current preoccupations: the countryside, which he is addressing for the first time; and generic architecture, which could result in neutral, copyright-free building forms.
Both topics are discussed in the OMA/Progress exhibition which opened at Barbican Art Gallery in London last week.
More about Rem Koolhaas on OMA's current preoccupations
A walkway by Tetsuo Kondo Architects winds its way around tree trunks and up into the canopy at a park in Tallinn, Estonia. More about A Path in the Forest by Tetsuo Kondo Architects
Computer software generates endless possible architectural configurations from standardised components at an exhibition in Taipei designed by architects MVRDV. More about Vertical Village exhibition by MVRDV and The Why Factory
In the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of the show.
More about Rem Koolhaas on OMA/Progress
Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for an new international airport in Kuwait. More about Kuwait International Airport by Foster + Partners
Coinciding with the OMA retrospective opening at the Barbican in London this week, here are some photos of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that the firm just completed in Glasgow. More about Maggie's Gartnavel by OMA
V-shaped concrete columns illuminated by blue lights give a tennis centre in Beijing the appearance of a spaceship ready for launch. More about Diamond Arena by Atelier 11