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"
Four months after MVRDV revealed its plant-covered walkway on a former elevated highway in Seoul, photographer Jim Stephenson visited the project to see how it is settling into the city. More about MVRDV's "Seoul High Line" captured in new photographs
Daniel Libeskind's architecture firm has finished work on the National Holocaust Monument in the Canadian capital, formed from tall concrete walls laid out like a warped Star of David. More about Studio Libeskind completes Canada's first Holocaust monument in Ottawa
A concrete-framed gymnasium in China, a seemingly endless atrium in South Africa and a flag-covered facade in Singapore all feature among the images vying to be named architecture photograph of the year. More about Shortlist unveiled for best architecture photograph of 2017
For this year's edition of the MPavilion, OMA's Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten have installed an amphitheatre in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens, featuring a moveable grandstand spanned by a "floating" roof. More about OMA reveals amphitheatre-like MPavilion complete with rotating grandstand
Pritzker Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes has completed a luxury apartment complex on an artificial island in Dubai, featuring glazed balconies on every floor and facades lined with textured glass louvres. More about RCR Arquitectes completes "serene and restrained" Dubai apartment building with sea views
The oval-shaped roof deck of this playful Tokyo kindergarten allows children to play and run endless laps around it – a feature that has just won it the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize. More about Tokyo kindergarten by Tezuka Architects lets children run free on the roof
French firm Odile Guzy Architectes has completed a social housing project in the city of Chalon-sur-Saône, comprising a row of terraced houses and an adjacent apartment block with timber facades that extend to form slatted solar screens. More about Odile Guzy Architectes covers social housing scheme with wooden slats and diamond patterned roofs
This holiday home in the Valverde region of northern Italy features deep square windows, bare concrete interiors and a roof that rises up towards steeply pointed corners. More about Italian holiday home by 35a Studio features pointed roof and bare concrete interior
For this year's Beijing Design Week, architecture studio MAD has created an inflatable pavilion with two big floppy ears. More about MAD creates inflatable pavilion shaped like a rabbit's head
Seattle firms Stettler Design and Paul Michael Davis Architects have used bright pops of colour to frame glazing at this pointy home. More about Red window frames accent angular Seattle house by Stettler Design
Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber and incorporating large glazed openings on all sides. More about Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof