This shimmering silhouette in the shape of three overlapping houses is in fact a junior school for boys in a Melbourne suburb. More about Penleigh and Essendon Junior Boys School by McBride Charles Ryan
Copenhagen studio Henning Larsen Architects and Icelandic studio Batteriid Architects have completed a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík, Iceland, in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson. More about Harpa Concert and Conference Centre Reykjavík by Henning Larsen Architects
A music recital room resembling a Japanese tea house hangs like a lantern in the garden of a residence northwest of Washington DC. More about Tea House by David Jameson
Square windows with various dimensions sporadically puncture the plain brick exterior of a community centre in Hungary. More about Community centre by MARP and Dévényi és Társa
Lisbon studio Orgânica Arquitectura have completed a two-storey residence behind the solid stone walls of an otherwise ruined house in Sintra, Portugal. More about Cabrela House by Orgânica Arquitectura
Zaha Hadid Architects have released new renders of a 200-metre-high commercial complex designed for Beijing. More about Wangjing Soho by Zaha Hadid Architects
Here's an animation of the two memorial fountains at the World Trade Centre site in New York, which are due to open in three weeks time on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More about 9/11 memorial by Michael Arad and Peter Walker
Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here's an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. More about Diamond Beach House by Bourne Blue Architecture
Herringbone brickwork and fretted screens decorate the facade of two apartment blocks in Prague. More about Apartment building by Znamení Čtyř
Long, narrow windows cut across the sides of a house in Okayama, Japan, to reveal the locations of internal walls and floors. More about Black Slit House by Three.Ball.Cascade
Once filled with water, a pond at the centre of this museum in Madrid will be crossed via a meandering route of stepping-stones. More about Interpretation centre for the Manzanares River by Rubio & Alvarez-Sala Architects
A cedar-clad house near Seoul by Korean architects AND spirals up from beneath the ground. More about Villa Topoject by AND
Dezeen Wire: as Renzo Piano's Shard takes shape in London, art critic Jonathan Jones decries it as "a flashing warning sign of disease" - The Guardian
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Pop-up shops might be commonplace in retail but would you consider getting married in a pop-up chapel made of cardboard? More about Kiss by Z-A Studio
Ribbons of mesh spiral around two conical bridges by French architect Dominique Perrault that cross a river and park in Madrid. More about Pasarela del Arganzuela by Dominique Perrault
Dezeen Wire: architects Will Alsop and Scott Lawrie have announced the name of their new practice: Alsop Lawrie Ltd, trading as ALL Design.
The announcement follows their decision to leave architects RMJM and set up a new design studio in London, as reported on Dezeen Wire last week.
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Criss-crossing metal beams surround a first floor reading room at a multimedia library near Paris. More about Médiathèque Romain Rolland by Philippe Gazeau
UK studio ABIR Architects and Peter Lewis of AEREA Design have redesigned the traditional English beach hut to be accessible for wheelchair users. More about Boscombe Beach Huts by ABIR Architects and Peter Lewis
Steel whirlpools spiral into skylights in the roof of a church in Austria by architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. More about Martin Luther Church by Coop Himmelb(l)au
A terracotta-coloured earth wall bounding the edge of a research complex in Pune, India, vanishes into a hillside. More about Lupin Research Park by Malik Architecture