Massachusetts firm Maryann Thompson Architects has enlarged a shingle-style house by opening up its ground floor, and building two additions on the grassy coastal property. More about Maryann Thompson refurbishes and extends shingled Cove House in Martha's Vineyard
Mexico's next president has called a referendum so the public can decide whether to continue the construction of the capital's major new airport, designed by Norman Foster and Fernando Romero. More about Fate of Foster's Mexico City airport left to public vote
Global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed and engineered a federal courthouse for a sloped site in Downtown Los Angeles, which appears as an elevated cube with folded glass facades. More about SOM wraps Downtown LA courthouse in pleats of glass
Today we're announcing the architecture shortlist for the first Dezeen Awards, featuring a rammed-earth cricket pavilion in Rwanda, a structure made out of kites in Taiwan and a wooden house in a Norwegian forest. More about Dezeen Awards 2018 architecture shortlist reveals the world's best new buildings
Swiss studio Urben Seyboth has refurbished a mid-century house near Zurich, preserving original details such as the board-marked concrete facades but opening up the interior to create a sequence of brighter spaces. More about Urben Seyboth brightens up interior of Swiss village house from the 1960s
British designer John Pawson has completed the overhaul of an ornate convent and hospital into a hotel in Tel Aviv's historic Jaffa neighbourhood. More about John Pawson transforms historic convent into Jaffa Hotel in Tel Aviv
Germany's national rail operator has announced plans to play atonal music in a Berlin station, in an attempt to deter criminal activity. More about Berlin's Hermannstrasse station to trial anxiety-inducing music in bid to reduce crime
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a proposal to construct rows of affordable housing on bridges above roads in Sydney. More about Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA
Architect Costas Kondylis, who designed countless residential skyscrapers in Manhattan including several for Donald Trump, has died aged 78. More about Prolific New York architect and Trump collaborator Costas Kondylis dies aged 78
American firms DeForest Architects and NB Design Group have created a dwelling in central Oregon with sliding panels that can either expose or conceal parts of the interior. More about High Desert Modern house in Oregon is designed to be "cool, calm and collected"
A 20-storey-high tower designed by the late Will Alsop, at his studio All Design, is set to be constructed beside the River Thames in London and is likely to become the architect's last major project in the city. More about Will Alsop's Heliport Heights skyscraper set to be built in London
Dezeen promotion: over 800 buildings will be open free to the public during this year's Open House London, including the Stirling Prize-nominated Bloomberg headquarters by Foster + Partners and the new US Embassy by Kieran Timberlake. More about Open House London 2018 programme features Bloomberg HQ and US Embassy
Office Winhov and Gottlieb Paludan Architects designed a decorative relief pattern that looks like bookshelves for the facade of this archive building in Delft, the Netherlands. More about City Archive Delft features brick-relief facade that evokes bookshelves
US architecture firm Studio Gang has revealed new renderings of a 40-storey apartment building in San Francisco, which will feature reinterpretations of the city's "classic bay windows" spiralled around its exterior. More about Studio Gang's Mira tower in San Francisco to feature twisting bay windows
Justice Stephen Breyer has been appointed to lead the jury for architecture's most prestigious award. More about US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer becomes Pritzker Prize chair
Metal, wood and concrete were used to revamp a 1960s mixed-use building near Facebook's main campus and Stanford University, which houses a cafe at ground level and leasable office space up above. More about Walker Warner Architects overhauls Silicon Valley building using industrial materials
An irregular undulating roof tops this tree-house-inspired holiday home on stilts, built in a remote Chinese village by architecture studio Monoarchi. More about Treewow Retreat is a Chinese village house featuring a round freeform roof
Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners' plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. More about Foster + Partners' Budapest tower will be built despite city's new skyscraper ban
Architecture office Al-Jawad Pike used pigmented concrete blockwork for the exterior and interior of this two-storey extension to a Victorian house in south London. More about Al-Jawad Pike combines robust and affordable materials for extension to Peckham house
The roof of this concrete house, by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos, doubles as a lookout point for residents to take in views of Chile's coastline. More about Viewing platform tops Felipe Assadi's Casa Cipolla on Chilean coast