Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled their design for a new performing arts centre in Amman, the capital of Jordan. More about King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art by Zaha Hadid Architects
Here is another project by our featured architects Suppose Design Office, this time the renovation of a house in Hiroshima city, Japan, where interiors are divided by walls that only reach halfway down from the ceiling. More about House in Kamiosuga by Suppose Design Office
Last week Amsterdam studios DUS Architecten and Studio for Unsolicited Architecture built a dome of umbrellas around a lamp post in Rotterdam and held a party under it. More about The Bucky Bar by DUS Architecten and Studio for Unsolicited Architecture
An exhibition about the work of structural engineer Cecil Balmond of Arup is on show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Japan. More about Element - Cecil Balmond at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Our current featured architects Suppose Design Office of Japan have designed a residence in Hiroshima with two rooms that appear to be outdoors. More about House in Hiro by Suppose Design Office
French photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photographs of the newly opened ViraHaus by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. More about VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron 2
Architect Davide Marchetti of Rome proposed an office building with a punctured rammed-earth facade for a competition in Leeds, UK. More about 36 The Calls by Davide Marchetti Architetto
Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has collaborated with green technology firm Studio Noach and botanist Patrick Blanc to propose an artificial floating island containing gardens and a spa. More about Floating gardens by Anne Holtrop
Burton Baldridge Architects of Texas have completed a bed-and-breakfast hotel on a steeply-sloping site in South Congress, Austen Austin. More about Kimber Modern by Burton Balridge Architects
Here are some photographs of the VitraHaus by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which has opened at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. More about VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron
Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a house in Hiroshima, Japan, where residents move between rooms through covered courtyards. More about House in Koamicho by Suppose Design Office
Dutch architects Mecanoo have completed a stone-clad theatre and congress centre in Llerida Lleida, Spain. More about La Llotja de Lleida by Mecanoo
Here are some photographs of the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France by architects Shigeru Ban of Japan and Jean de Gastines of France, which will open to the public in May. More about Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban
The Rolex Learning Center, a university study centre by Japanese architects SANAA, opens in Lausanne, Switzerland next week. More about Rolex Learning Center by SANAA
Here's another project from Japanese studio Suppose Design Office, this time a house in Buzen, Japan, where separate structures are connected under a glass canopy. More about House in Buzen by Suppose Design Office
Architects GAD of New York, Istanbul and Bodrum have completed a fish market in Istanbul covered by a concrete and steel canopy. More about Besiktas Fish Market by GAD
Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au are to be awarded the Sustainability Award of the 2010 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards for their tower covered in a folded metal skin, designed for the Erdberg area of Vienna. More about Town Town by Coop Himmelb(l)au
Korean designers AnL Studio have completed an observatory made of shipping containers in Songdo New City, Incheon, South Korea. More about OceanScope by AnL Studio
London architects Haworth Tompkins have inserted a Corten steel artist's studio into a ruined Victorian dovecote in Suffolk, UK. More about The Dovecote Studio by Haworth Tompkins
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a gymnasium in Freiburg designed by German studio Böwer Eith Murken. More about Dieter-Wetterauer-Halle by Böwer Eith Murken
