The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh by local architecture studio Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA has been awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021. More about Rural hospital in Bangladesh named world's best building by RIBA
In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for architecture firm TP Bennett, the studio's principal director explains how its latest residential project was designed to meet Passivhaus energy standards. More about TP Bennett's Haus on the Ridge informed by vintage camera
Chinese architecture studio More Design Office (MDO) has converted a cluster of traditional rammed-earth houses in China's Zhejiang Province into a series of contemporary guesthouses called Floating Cloud Township Villa. More about MDO converts rammed-earth houses in rural China into holiday villas
Greek studio KRAK Architects has conceptualised an angular underground house on the south coast of Crete with semi-open living spaces and an infinity pool that looks out to the Libyan sea. More about KRAK Architects imagines subterranean house on Cretan coast
Salt Lake City architecture studio Imbue Design has built a house outside Zion National Park in Utah with sweeping views of one of the USA's most renowned landscapes. More about Imbue Design completes glass-and-steel home in Utah desert landscape
American firm Frederick Fisher and Partners has completed a trio of hilltop buildings for a California school that was partly destroyed by a wildfire. More about Frederick Fisher creates stucco buildings for California school hit by wildfire
A planning law introduced in the city of Brighton and Hove, England, calls for new buildings to include special bricks that provide nests for solitary bees. More about Bee bricks become planning requirement for new buildings in Brighton
Hundreds of stacked, weathered steel tubes form this arched monument in Laagraven Park, Utrecht, designed by architecture and art studio Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. More about Stacked steel tubes form Waterline Monument by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh
Swedish architect couple Andreas Lyckefors and Josefine Wikholm have designed and built themselves a home with a decorative lattice facade, plus a matching property next door. More about Andreas Lyckefors and Josefine Wikholm build twin houses in Gothenburg
BXB Studio has completed a house built of five overlapping barns that was the basis of the dream-like animated short film ArchiPaper. More about Animated ArchiPaper farmhouse gets built in Poland
Ukrainian architecture practice Makhno Studio has designed a 3D-printed settlement for Mars named Plan C that would encircle the edge of a crater. More about Makhno Studio designs conceptual settlement within Martian crater
A brick-lined arcade has been inserted beneath an existing railway viaduct at the Borough Yards shopping and dining district in south London designed by local architecture studio SPPARC. More about SPPARC completes Borough Yards shopping district in London
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has completed a museum dedicated to music topped with an undulating roof punctuated by trees in Budapest's City Park. More about Sou Fujimoto creates House of Music in Budapest park "as a continuation of the natural environment"
Brazilian architecture studio Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura has built a concrete home in Brasília made up of three volumes, each lit by a central light well carved out of its angular roof. More about Light wells puncture roof of concrete house in Brasília by Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura
Fletcher Crane Architects has completed a two-bedroom house on a brownfield plot in west London featuring grey-brick walls that are left exposed throughout the living areas and sunken bedrooms. More about Fletcher Crane Architects creates compact brick house on former garage site
The earthen tone of this off-grid holiday home in Northern Mexico was selected to match the rock formations of the nearby Cumbres de Majalca National Park, which is known for its dramatic landscapes. More about Concrete walls frame desert views in remote Chihuahua home by OAX Arquitectos
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its 2022 summit on 5 February. Ahead of the conference, founder Beatrice Galilee explains the summit's focus and forecasts the changes she expects to see in the design industry this year. More about The World Around "speaks about design as current affairs" says Beatrice Galilee
Shanghai studio Wutopia Lab has completed The White Section Homestay, a guesthouse near Suzhou with rooms that appear to float within the building volume. More about Sliced openings reveal internal layout of Suzhou guesthouse by Wutopia Lab
The clean geometry of Dieter Rams' industrial designs informed Winter House, a virtual residence by digital artist Andrés Reisinger and architect Alba de la Fuente that exists in a pink-hued winter world. More about Andrés Reisinger and Alba de la Fuente design modernist house in frosty metaverse landscape
Prefabricated and movable hospitality pods from US startup Moliving will make up the Hurley House hotel, which is set to open this spring in upstate New York. More about Moliving will open first “nomadic hotel” in New York’s Hudson Valley