Concrete mixtures could be strengthened by adding nanoparticles extracted from carrots and other root vegetables, research currently underway at England's Lancaster University suggests. More about Carrots could be key to stronger concrete
Grimshaw has completed a £1 billion refurbishment of the 19th century London Bridge station next to the Shard, covering its rearranged platforms with sinuous grey canopies. More about Ribbon-like platform roofs stretch over Grimshaw's redesigned London Bridge station
Architecture firm BIG has released plans to build a major complex in an industrial neighbourhood of Miami, combining housing, offices, a school and urban farming. More about BIG reveals Miami Produce Center raised on stilts above former warehouses
Steven Holl Architects has won a competition to revamp Ireland's largest university, with a proposal featuring buildings that reference the geological forms of the Giant's Causeway. More about Steven Holl to overhaul University College Dublin with design referencing Giant's Causeway
Phoenix studio Wendell Burnette Architects has completed a dwelling in central Arizona that follows the contours of its rugged desert site and provides vistas of the surrounding peaks. More about Wendell Burnette places Hidden Valley Desert House among forest of cacti
This pair of gabled structures, built from weathering steel by Cohesion Studio, can be rented by visitors in the California desert. More about Gabled metal Folly cabins provide glamping site in Joshua Tree
BIG has completed a pair of towers with rippling and folded facades to house the offices of a state-owned energy company in Shenzhen. More about Pleated facades cover pair of Shenzhen skyscrapers by BIG
London-based architecture studio JAA has revealed a proposal to encase the burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower in a sarcophagus of black concrete as a memorial to the victims of the fire. More about Grenfell Tower reimagined as a black concrete-covered memorial
Architecture studio MAD has created five installations inside the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel, a mountain viewpoint in Japan's Niigata Prefecture, including a lake framed by mirrors and a foot bath in a wooden dome. More about MAD transforms Japanese mountain tunnel by adding mirrors, a spa and a lake
Architecture firm Gensler has completed a pair of towers in Kuwait City featuring facades that recall traditional Arabic screens, with one containing offices and the other a Four Seasons Hotel with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg. More about Twin towers in Kuwait City reference vernacular Arabic architecture
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' vast transit hub in downtown San Francisco will eventually connect 11 regional, state and national public transport modes, and is topped with a public park. More about Pelli Clarke Pelli's Salesforce Transit Center opens in San Francisco
The Space Needle observation tower in Seattle has reopened to the public following an extensive overhaul by American firm Olson Kundig Architects, which involved adding "the world's first and only revolving glass floor". More about Olson Kundig completes major renovation of Seattle's Space Needle
Brazilian firm Studio Arthur Casas has worked with a startup to create a highly flexible, prefabricated home that avoids the "negative surprises" typical in conventional projects. More about Studio Arthur Casas designs prefabricated home for SysHaus
London-based Henley Halebrown referenced both Georgian and modernist buildings when creating this Stirling Prize-shortlisted group of brick-clad student halls at the University of Roehampton's parkland campus. More about Henley Halebrown creates concrete-and-brick student halls for garden-like site
The number of architecture projects comprising series of cubes or cuboids to look like digital pixels, or half-finished games of Jenga, is stacking up fast. Here are 10 examples from studios including Herzog & de Meuron, OMA and MVRDV. More about 10 pixelated and Jenga-style buildings that tick all the boxes
Aaron Betsky examines the emergence and popularity of Jenga-style towers and pixelated buildings around the world, and hopes that future examples don't tumble into mediocrity. More about "Jenga architecture proposes the unstable, the tentative, and that which tends to dissolution"
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed visualisations of a 112 metre-high tower, planned for Paceville on the northern coast of Malta, which would be the country's tallest building. More about Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for Malta's tallest building
American studio Tighe Architecture has created a sculptural residence on a tree-studded hillside in Los Angeles that is wrapped in plaster and large stretches of glass. More about Facets and curves form exterior of Hollywood Hills House by Tighe Architecture
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei took to Instagram to show Chinese authorities knocking down his studio in Beijing, with many of his artworks still inside. More about Ai Weiwei's Beijing studio demolished by Chinese authorities
Claudio Silvestrin Architects has completed a shopping outlet in Turin, Italy, that features a 111-metre-high "modern medieval spire". More about Huge obelisk marks entrance to Torino Outlet Fashion Village by Claudio Silvestrin Architects