Next in our series spotlighting residential architecture from each US state is Florida, where lavish waterfront villas designed for tropical living include a house built around its own lagoon and a home with a waterslide. More about Five of the best houses in Florida on Dezeen
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has drawn up plans for "London's greenest public building", a school that would be entirely powered by tidal movements of the River Thames. More about Vision unveiled for London school powered by Thames tide
An Arctic storage bunker filled with seeds that could help humankind regenerate crops after a doomsday scenario is undergoing repairs, after rising temperatures caused it to flood. More about Climate change forces emergency repairs to "failsafe" Arctic seed vault
Mushroom-shaped columns, pyrex skylights and earthy coloured furnishings feature in Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax Headquarters, which is next in our series of the architect's most important projects, celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth last week. More about Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Johnson Wax offices as a forest open to the sky
A curved concrete staircase weaves around a sloping garden that rises through the centre of this house in Buenos Aires designed by local studio Bam! Arquitectura. More about Bam! Arquitectura ramps garden up through centre of Buenos Aires home
South African firm SAOTA has built its first project in Miami Beach: an expansive, waterfront home that boasts a basketball court and a waterslide. More about Miami Beach residence by SAOTA takes indoor-outdoor living to the extreme
Foster + Partners' Apple Park is an "anachronism wrapped in glass" that provides a poor model for company campuses, claims the first major critical review of the project, published by technology magazine Wired. More about "Apple's new campus sucks" according to Wired magazine
This small and narrow townhouse by Argentinian practice CCPM Arquitectos is slotted into a gap in a tightly packed neighbourhood in Buenos Aires. More about CCPM Arquitectos slots skinny corrugated-metal home into dense Buenos Aires neighbourhood
Rooms topped with chimney-like roofs surround a secluded courtyard to from this house in Kent, England, which takes its angular form and russet colouring from the area's hop-drying oast towers. More about James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell model Kentish country house on traditional hop kilns
Architecture studio EFFEKT has released plans for a 600-metre-long treetop walkway connected to a spiralling observation tower with 360-degree views over the forest canopy of Haslev, Denmark. More about EFFEKT unveils spiralling tower and treetop walkway near Copenhagen
We're continuing our look back at Frank Lloyd Wright's most important projects, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the American architect's birth last week. Next is Unity Temple, the Prairie-style concrete church that he considered to be his first contribution to modern architecture. More about Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple was the "first expression" of modern architecture
The founders of US firm Edmonds + Lee Architects designed this urban dwelling for themselves, including a bright white facade, a slanted roof and retractable glass walls. More about Edmonds + Lee creates white Switchback House for sloped street in San Francisco
Penguins slide and somersault down the sloping rooftops of a popular Aarhus housing complex in this animated movie, created by French film studio 11h45. More about "The Iceberg" housing in Aarhus becomes a playground for penguins in new animation
Deep triangular and flat-topped arches are punched through the white walls of this community centre, which architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus designed for the Portuguese town of Grândola. More about Irregular cutouts mark recessed entrances to Aires Mateus' community centre in Portugal
David Beckham's plan to create a new professional soccer team for Miami is a step closer to kick-off – the British footballer has now acquired a plot of land to build a stadium on. More about David Beckham scores land for Populous-designed football stadium in Miami
By pairing raw concrete with warm timber, French office Studio Razavi hoped to give a contemporary feel to this Alpine chalet home, while also complying with strict local architecture guidelines. More about Studio Razavi reinterprets traditional chalet architecture with Mountain House in the Alps
This countryside house in Peru by Lima-based studio Cheng + Franco Arquitectos features three volumes clad in perforated Corten steel that cantilever above a grassy bridleway. More about Cheng + Franco cantilevers trio of Corten-clad volumes from rural Peruvian house
The fibreglass-concrete facades of this technology centre in Moscow, designed by architecture practice WALL, are imprinted with a pattern based on the conductive tracks of circuit boards. More about Information technology pavilion in Moscow features circuit-board-patterned walls
These foggy renderings by The Boundary forego the stereotypical blue-sky backdrop to depict a wedge-shaped tower by Richard Keep Architects and Henry Goss Architects, which has just been granted planning permission in Nairobi, Kenya. More about Richard Keep and Henry Goss unveil plans for Nairobi tower in rainy renderings
A tilted and fractured black box that emerges from a public square in the Chinese city of Harbin contains display areas dedicated to telling the story of war crimes committed during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. More about Sloping black volumes penetrate public square at Harbin's Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidences