Shanghai Expo 2010: Polish architects Wojciech Kakowski, Natalia Paszkowska and Marcin Mostafa have been chosen to design the Polish pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. More about Polish pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010
Architect Zaha Hadid was appointed last month to design a new building on the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. More about Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic University by Zaha Hadid
Photographer Manuel Eckl has sent us some moody shots of the new(ish) Jewish Museum in Munich, Germany. More about Jüdische Museum München by Wandel Hoefer Lorch Architekten
Slovenian architects Sadar Vuga Arhitekti have sent us some photos of Apartment House Zvezda, a residential building in Nova Gorica. More about Apartment House Zvezda by Sadar Vuga Arhitekti
Here's another building with a pointy prow, but this time it's a public toilet. Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these pictures of the new facilities in Gravesend in Kent, England, by Plastik Architects. More about Gravesend public toilets by Plastik Architects
Foster + Partners have released designs for the biggest building ever built: Crystal Island in Moscow will be 450m high, cover an area of almost half a million square metres and contain a total floor area of 2.5 million square metres. More about The world’s biggest ever building by Foster + Partners
Oktokki Space Center is the third of our trio of projects by Korean architects Mass Studies. More about Oktokki Space Center by Mass Studies
The second of our three recent buildings by Korean architects Mass Studies is the Xi Gallery in Pusan. More about Xi Gallery by Mass Studies
Here is the first of three recent projects by Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies: the Ann Demeulemeester Shop in the Gangham district of Seoul. More about Ann Demeulemeester Shop in Seoul by Mass Studies
David Kohn Architects' design for Heterotopia, a zero carbon art garden at the Thames Gateway, has been shortlisted for the RIBA London and Arts Council England ideas competition 'Arts Space of the Future'. More about Heterotopia by David Kohn Architects
Norwegian architects Snøhetta have completed Petter Dass Museum, a building cut into solid rock on a remote Fjord in Norway. More about Petter Dass Museum by Snøhetta
Here are a couple of images of Eden Bio by French architect Edouard Francois, a social housing development in Paris set in organic gardens. More about Eden Bio by Edouard Francois
Interior designer Ben Rousseau has created a suite for the Ice Hotel, which has just opened in Sweden. More about Ben Rousseau at the Ice Hotel
Swiss architects Group8 have won a competition to build luxury villas as part of a new mountain resort called New Andermatt in Switzerland. More about New Andermatt by Group8
Andreas Bittis has re-launched TranslucentConcrete - load-bearing concrete containing optical fibres that means you can see through it. A bit. More about TranslucentConcrete by Andreas Bittis
Design Miami 07: Our third movie from Miami features Tom Dixon, with his Artek hat on, talking about two related projects the Finnish brand showed at the event last week. More about Movie: Tom Dixon at Design Miami
This isn't exactly new, but the last time we wrote about Alison Brooks Architects the story was very popular... so here's The Salt House at Maldon in England, which won the RIBA Manser Medal for best new house in the UK back in October. More about The Salt House by Alison Brooks Architects
Swedish creative studio Medium has completed a mini art museum for children, contained in a wooden box inside a grown-up art gallery. More about Barens Konstmuseum by Jacob Dahlgren and Medium
If you're looking for design-related Christmas presents, this makes the perfect gift, etc etc! Twenty-First Century Design by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs is an overview of design at the start of the new millennium More about Twenty-First Century Design by Marcus Fairs
The AA Hijmans van den Bergh medical faculty in Utrecht designed by Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects is the joint winner of the 2007 Rietveldprijs for architecture. More about AA Hijmans van den Bergh medical faculty by Erick van Egeraat