Safdie Architects is set to increase the size of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas by 50 per cent with a design that includes two new galleries connected by a bridge. More about Safdie Architects to expand Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Global design firm Skidmore Owings and Merril collaborated with American artist Phillip K Smith III to create Santa Monica Linear, a mirrored glass installation that lights up at night. More about SOM and Phillip K Smith III install light-up mirrored sculpture in Santa Monica
Architect Michele De Lucchi has redesigned the Italian covers of the Harry Potter books, shifting focus away from the characters and towards the fantastical buildings of the wizarding world. More about Michele De Lucchi reimagines Harry Potter covers "in dialogue with contemporary architecture"
Italian research studio Space Caviar has released a manifesto for a new type of architecture that does not deplete the earth's resources. More about Non-Extractive Architecture manifesto calls for buildings that are "not intrinsically dependent on exploitation"
Helsinki-based JKMM Architects has renovated and extended a library named Fyyri in the Finnish town of Kirkkonummi. More about JKMM Architects extends 1980s library to create "public living room" for Kirkkonummi
A massive pivot door enables an interior room to open onto a covered patio in casiTa, a guesthouse in Arizona designed by architecture firm The Ranch Mine. More about The Ranch Mine builds casiTa guesthouse in Phoenix backyard
A collapsible camera obscura and a bamboo tensegrity structure have been revealed as the two winning designs of the 2021 Antepavilion architecture commission in Hackney, London. More about Antepavilion names two winners for 2021 competition as legal battle continues
Sou Fujimoto Architects has renovated a hotel in Maebashi, Japan, removing the original building's internal floors and adding a grassy hill containing cabins. More about Sou Fujimoto adds giant atrium and green hill to Shiroiya Hotel
Colourful geometric panels and positive messages brighten the bamboo structure of the See Through pavilion, which designer and artist Morag Myerscough has installed in a park in London. More about Morag Myerscough designs bamboo pavilion to bring "unexpected joy" to passersby
As campaign group FAF calls on RIBA to address the mistreatment of architectural assistants, architects should focus on changing toxic practice culture, says Sylvia Aehle. More about "Shedding the toxic behaviour we have grown accustomed to will be met with resistance"
Dutch architecture practice Kaan Architecten has concealed a minimalist wing within the existing 19th-century structure of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. More about Kaan Architecten hides "autonomous" extension at the heart of Antwerp's Royal Museum of Fine Arts
A 1960s hall with a barrel-vaulted concrete ceiling gave MoDus Architects the design cues for this refurbishment of an education centre in South Tyrol. More about MoDus Architects brings new logic to mid-century Cusanus Academy
A group of designers known as Colectivo C733 has completed a brick shopping centre in northern Mexico topped with roof volumes that bring in daylight and allow hot air to escape. More about Trapezoidal "umbrellas" form roof of Matamoros Market by Colectivo C733
Architect Tim Robinson has designed and built a studio and workshop at the end of his garden in east London, featuring walls made from green terrazzo chosen to blend with the garden's tropical planting. More about Tim Robinson's Terrazzo Studio provides a "tropical oasis" in a London garden
Reclaimed brick and metal panels form the exterior of a residential and commercial project in Colorado's capital, designed by local firm Tres Birds. More about S*PARK by Tres Birds occupies full city block in Denver
Colab-19 has built a temporary cross-shaped church from used construction components to allow a local congregation to worship safely during the coronavirus pandemic in Bogotá, Colombia. More about Colab-19 builds open-sided church in Bogotá for worship during the pandemic
Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create "a spacious void of shadows". More about Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house
This week on Dezeen, a video fly-through showed architecture studio Abiboo's proposal for Nüwa city, which was designed to be the first permanent city on Mars. More about This week Abiboo envisioned a city on Mars for quarter of a million people
As well as being bad for the environment, NFTs have so far failed to produce original or exciting work that pushes the boundaries of design, says Aaron Betsky. More about "When will we see good design as a NFT?"
The virtual world and the real world will become one and the human body will merge with fashion and architecture, according to speakers at Dezeen Club's metaverse meet-up event held at a virtual rooftop bar earlier this week. More about The metaverse will allow you to "extend your body into architecture" says Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular