The Phoenix Garden, a green space and community building tucked into London's West End, takes centre stage in the next short film published with Open House London. More about The Phoenix Garden is a green retreat in London's West End
Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith has been appointed by UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick to lead a national design body that has been tasked with "driving up design standards" for planning applications. More about Nicholas Boys Smith to lead new government task force to "embed beauty" in the planning system
Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has created a three-dimensional facade from tailor-made, precast concrete panels for the Lichtfabrik office block in Berlin. More about Rieder's sculptural concrete cladding wraps Berlin office block
Fletcher Crane Architects has designed The Water Gardens Pod, a three-bedroom house below a seventeen-storey high-rise on the Water Gardens estate near Hyde Park, London. More about Water Gardens Pod underneath high-rise seems to be "excavated from the tower block"
American architecture studio SOM has created a design for a ventilated, high-ceilinged, modular classroom for schools that need temporary accommodation. More about SOM unveils modular School/House classrooms in response to coronavirus
Ortraum Architects has built an asymmetric studio called 12 in the garden of a house in Helsinki, Finland, to provide its owners with space to compose music and make ceramics. More about Ortraum Architects builds timber music studio beside house in Helsinki
Double O Studio has designed Trefoil House in Aroeira, Portugal, as a series of overlapping concrete shapes topped by a long swimming pool. More about Double O Studio tops trefoil-shaped concrete house with rooftop pool
American practice CCY Architects has renovated and extended a house dating from the 1880s in Aspen, Colorado, adding a music room with a piano-themed perforated metal facade. More about CCY Architects adds extension with musical facade to Victorian house in Aspen
Dezeen promotion: Clarion Housing Group is calling on architects and designers to enter this year's William Sutton Prize for Placemaking and Affordable Housing Design, ahead of the 30 September deadline. More about Last chance to enter The William Sutton Prize for Placemaking and Affordable Housing Design
Dutch architecture practice UNStudio has collaborated with the Qatar Rail Architecture Department to create 37 stations for the driverless Doha Metro system, which has opened in Qatar. More about UNStudio creates 37 vaulted stations for Doha Metro
The next Open House London documentary offers a glimpse of Neasden Temple, a place of worship in northwest London that was built using ancient Hindu texts and 26,000 pieces of stone. More about Neasden Temple is built from over 5,000 tonnes of hand-carved stone
London architecture studio WilkinsonEyre and Copenhagen-based Urban Agency have designed the Lille Langebro bicycle bridge as a convenient route across Copenhagen's inner harbour for cyclists and pedestrians. More about WilkinsonEyre and Urban Agency design curved Lille Langebro cycling bridge in Copenhagen
Reflect Architecture has renovated a house for a young family living in Toronto, Canada, by brightening its truncated interiors and twisting a blue slide through its centre. More about Blue slide is centrepiece of Walker house renovation by Reflect Architecture
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to create a new Bauhaus modelled on the influential design school as part of the European Union's €750 billion coronavirus recovery plan. More about EC president announces "new European Bauhaus" to help Europe move to a circular economy
Venice architecture studio AMAA has installed eight shipping containers in an Italian factory as a permanent installation that aims to investigate what architecture is. More about AMAA stacks shipping containers in Italian factory to create Space within a space
Dutch studio VenhoevenCS and French practice Ateliers 2/3/4/ have unveiled the designs for a timber swimming pool complex in Paris, which will be the only permanent venue built for the 2024 Olympic Games. More about VenhoevenCS and Ateliers 2/3/4/ reveal timber aquatic centre for Paris 2024 Olympics
This short film, published in collaboration with Open House London, focuses on Glenkerry House, a tower block that marries brutalism with architect Ernö Goldfinger's utopian housing ideals. More about Ernö Goldfinger's Glenkerry House is a brutalist "vertical village"
The founder of John Wardle Architects has remodelled Kew Residence, his Melbourne home of 25 years, using Victorian ash and handmade glazed tiles from Japan. More about Architect John Wardle renovates his own house in Australia
Czech Republic studio Atelier Štěpán has built a circular church in a housing estate in Brno that is topped with a panoramic, rainbow-hued window. More about Atelier Štěpán tops circular Church of Beatified Restituta with rainbow stained-glass window
This video tour published as part of our collaboration with Open House London explores Dalston Curve Garden, a community green space hidden within one of London's most built-up boroughs. More about Dalston Curve Garden is an urban oasis on Hackney's disused railway