For a 1950s home in Los Angeles' elite Bel Air neighbourhood, architect Andrea Lenardin Madden has added an angular volume with floor-to-ceiling glass that extends over the landscape. More about Andrea Lenardin Madden adds cantilevering extension to midcentury LA residence
Tower blocks like Grenfell should never have been built, according to 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown, who believes high-rise housing ostracises council tenants and should instead be reserved for the most wealthy in society. More about High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown
Architecture studio LT2A has added a brick extension to a school near Lille, featuring an entrance sheltered by an anodised-aluminium canopy, and circular windows that provide glimpses of courtyard gardens. More about Lille school extension by LT2A features porthole-like windows and golden details
Omar Gandhi Architect just completed its latest house, which sits on Nova Scotia's rugged coastline. We've therefore rounded up five of the Canadian firm's residential projects, all designed to maximise their dramatic settings and create cosy escapes from harsh weather. More about Five serene Canadian retreats by Omar Gandhi Architect
New York studio LOT-EK has built a family home in Brooklyn by stacking shipping containers, and cutting them at an angle to create terraces stepped down its back. More about LOT-EK slices shipping-container stack to form Williamsburg home
This captioned movie offers a tour of this year's MPavilion, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA. Featuring footage shot by a drone, the film gives a closer look at the building's seemingly unsupported roof and its amphitheatre-like interior. More about Drone footage showcases "floating" roof of OMA's MPavilion
The first photos have been released of Norman Foster's newly completed European headquarters for Bloomberg in London, which claims to be the world's most sustainable office building. More about Foster + Partner's Bloomberg headquarters is the "world’s most sustainable office"
Dezeen promotion: Swiss architect Mario Botta has completed an unusually shaped restaurant in the alps, which combines natural stone cladding with Jansen's steel facade system. More about Mario Botta pairs stone with Jansen steel frames to create striped facade for Swiss mountain restaurant
Steep, pointy roofs and square windows that frame views of the landscape figure into this pine-clad retreat in the northeastern US, by design studio New Affiliates. More about New Affiliates creates asymmetric mountain cabin in Vermont
Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to create a sustainable office campus for a Hungarian oil and gas company, centred around a 28-storey skyscraper. More about Foster + Partners unveils plans for Budapest's tallest building
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music complex near Paris, featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. More about Shigeru Ban's La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels
Architect Jürgen Mayer H and historian Philip Ursprung are presenting a manifesto championing beige buildings, titled Cosmic Latte, at this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial. We've chosen seven projects from the pages of Dezeen that fit the bill. More about Seven buildings that prove beige doesn't have to be boring
This year's Chicago Biennial doesn't provide a blueprint for the future of architecture, but it does offer clues for how to create one, says Aaron Betsky. More about "Chicago Biennial shows us how we might find building blocks for a new architecture"
Reclaimed metal panels and wood from railroad trestles were used to create an urban infill dwelling conceived by students in a design-build programme at the University of Kansas. More about Studio 804 uses salvaged materials to construct sustainable home in Kansas
Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. More about Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack
Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has unveiled its new visitor centre for toy company Lego – a stack of huge building blocks, featuring brightly coloured patios that are home to a submarine, a shark and a camel. More about BIG completes Lego visitor centre shaped like a stack of building blocks
The tallest of three office towers that Skidmore Owings & Merrill has completed in Beijing features a faceted exoskeleton, inspired by the patterns created by the folds on paper lanterns. More about Latticed shell of SOM's Beijing tower is based on traditional Chinese paper lanterns
Guests can stay overnight in former patients' rooms at this late 19th-century building constructed as a mental hospital, which New York studio Deborah Berke Partners has partially restored and redesigned as a hotel. More about Deborah Berke Partners transforms historic insane asylum into boutique hotel
New details and interior renderings of Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly's latest residential skyscraper for New York City have been released. More about Rafael Viñoly's 125 Greenwich Street skyscraper to rise in Downtown Manhattan
MVRDV's plant-covered walkway in Seoul may look like a low-budget version of the High Line, but it's much more than that – it's the sign of a new frontier in city-making, says new Dezeen columnist Gerard Reinmuth. More about "Seoullo is no High Line, but it is of equal importance"