US studio Smitharc Architects has designed a family dwelling in Durham that features cypress cladding and ample windows, reaching out into the natural landscape. More about Smitharc Architects situates Blue Dog Residence on wooded property in North Carolina
UK architects have attacked the government's new Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, which has been set up to improve the design quality of homes and places. More about UK's new commission for beautiful buildings is "tedious hangover from 1980s" say architects
London-based architecture studio Hawkins\Brown has added a brick extension to a 19th century warehouse to create an office block at 53 Great Suffolk Street in Southwark, London. More about Hawkins\Brown's office extension mirrors Victorian brick warehouse
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has turned an old brick building in Chicago into an architecture-focused exhibition centre. More about Tadao Ando designs Wrightwood 659 exhibition space in Chicago
Architecture firms Snøhetta and Dialog have completed a new hub for Calgary's public library system, with a crystalline exterior and an atrium clad in timber slats. More about Snøhetta and Dialog's New Central Library for Calgary features vast wood-lined atrium
American firm Craig Steely Architecture has encircled this California dwelling with a curvy wall, which keeps views focused upward rather than outward. More about Craig Steely surrounds Roofless House in Silicon Valley with sinuous wooden wall
Threefold Architects has completed a simple brick pool house with an outdoor fireplace, and a matching gym, at either end of a London garden. More about Pared-back garden pavilions by Threefold Architects provide space for poolside relaxation
To continue our Bauhaus 100 series exploring the key projects and figures of the influential design school, we take a look at its home in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius to embody the school's core principles and values. More about Walter Gropius designed school in Dessau to reflect the Bauhaus values
Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has built and outfitted a hotel in the city, using black and white surfaces both inside and out. More about Montreal's Hotel Monville by ACDF Architecture features strict palette
Angled walls, slender windows, and a Le Corbusier-influenced roof deck break up the chunky white volumes of this residence, which architecture studio Urban Operations has built into a hill in Los Angeles. More about Urban Operations slots "sliced and folded" white house into LA hillside
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Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has completed a winery in Provence with facades made of one-tonne stone blocks, which are staggered in places to let the light in. More about Massive stone blocks form walls of Provence winery
Matching wooden walls, floors and furnishings blend together inside this pair of gabled buildings, designed by Canadian studio Atelier Pierre Thibault to offer communal accommodation for visitors to a Quebec nature reserve. More about Atelier Pierre Thibault completes shed-like guesthouse in Quebec gardens
Design studio Tjep and Vaastukalpa Architects have completed a market building that combines Bangladeshi construction techniques with "Dutch flair". More about Tjep and Vaastukalpa Architects complete Village Super Market in rural Bangladesh
Peter Zumthor's Secular Retreat is the last in a series of eight holiday homes built by Living Architecture. Here's a look at them all, from a barn cantilevered over a hillside, to a boat perched on the roof of a concert venue. More about Eight architect-designed holiday homes in the Living Architecture series
American architecture firm Johnston Marklee has completed a cultural building in Texas, with a white linear form punctured by courtyards. More about Johnston Marklee's Menil Drawing Institute opens in Houston
London's V&A has released details of its plans for V&A East, a new outpost at the Olympic Park featuring a five-storey museum designed by O'Donnell + Tuomey and a research centre created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. More about Designs revealed for V&A East buildings by O'Donnell + Tuomey and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series exploring the school's centenary, we profile the man who had a vision to make art accessible to the masses, not just a luxury of the few. More about Walter Gropius: the ideas man who founded the Bauhaus
Architecture firm WilkinsonEyre has revealed visuals showing its plan to install a glass lift inside one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station in London. More about Glass elevator for Battersea Power Station revealed in new visuals
A double-curved concrete shelled pavilion, constructed using a 3D-knitted formwork developed by Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich, has gone on display in Mexico City. More about Zaha Hadid Architects and ETH Zurich debut concrete pavilion with 3D-knitted formwork