A UK charity has launched a competition calling for architects to propose alternative living spaces for Romanian migrant workers who are currently forced to set up camp in public parks or underpasses. More about Architects asked to find solutions for "social injustice" of UK's informal migrant settlements
Ateliers Jean Nouvel has released new renderings for its plant-covered luxury hotel adjoining a former maternity hospital in São Paulo, which will feature interiors by Philippe Starck. More about Jean Nouvel designs plant-covered hotel for historic district of São Paulo
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative series investigates a design for a hydroponic vertical farm nestled among the skyscrapers of Shanghai. More about Vertical farm designed to produce food amidst Shanghai's skyscrapers
A concrete ceiling in the form of an inverted pyramid opens up towards its edges to provide views of the surrounding rainforest from inside this house close to Brazil's Itamambuca beach. More about Gui Mattos perches timber-clad box on top of pyramidal ceiling at Brazilian beach house
Earthy materials and soft interior light define these new buildings that American firm Studio B created for a primary school situated in an American mountain valley. More about Studio B pairs weathering steel with red cedar for extension to remote Colorado school
IF_DO has designed a mirrored events pavilion in the grounds of John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London, which was unveiled this morning ahead of this year's London Festival of Architecture. More about John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery informs summer pavilion for London Festival of Architecture
Foster + Partners has built yet another tree-filled Apple Store, but this one also features hand-carved stone staircases. More about Foster + Partners opens "one of our greenest Apple spaces yet" in Singapore
A tree grows up through a lightwell that Australian studio Welsh + Major has added to this house in Sydney, and topped with an opening glass roof. More about Welsh + Major slots lightwell between Sydney cottage and its brick extension
The Japanese House exhibition at London's Barbican doesn't offer solutions to the housing crisis, says Owen Hatherley, but it does show what's possible when architects respond to extreme change and instability. More about "The Japanese House is about fear, imagination, aggression and dreams"
Fingers of earth branch over this mound-shaped holiday home by architecture studio LASSA, allowing its owners to climb up onto the roof to admire Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. More about Domed summer house by LASSA offers an elevated view over a Greek olive grove
Danish studio AART has been selected to design Denmark's national rowing stadium, with its designs for a tiered and timber-clad boathouse at Bagsværd Lake on the outskirts of Copenhagen. More about AART reveals designs for national rowing stadium in Denmark
Clay bricks that form a pixellated pattern clad this Mexican house, which AS/D Asociación de Diseño has arranged around a cactus tree. More about Clay brick and concrete Mexican house surrounds a cactus tree
Architecture studio Mer Arkkitehdit has integrated the surrounding rocky terrain into its design for this spruce-clad villa in the historic Finnish seaside town of Hanko. More about Mer Arkkitehdit sets spruce-panelled villa into cliff face in Finnish seaside town
Volcanic stone walls and sculptural skylights are among the features of this holiday home by Khosla Associates, which looks out over a picturesque mountain lake in southwest India. More about Pavilion-like house offers spectacular views of India's Western Ghats mountains
Mulroy Architects has added a glazed extension to this house in north London, which features interiors and bespoke oak joinery by local studio Manea Kella. More about Mulroy Architects and Manea Kella extend Edwardian home in north London
These renderings by visualisation studio VER depict a board-marked concrete house with factory-like glazing, which Mexican architecture studio Lázaro is planning to build in the city of Uruapan. More about Lázaro presents loft-style house in visuals that "go beyond hyper-realistic"
Lebanese designer Nathalie Harb created this pavilion for Beirut Design Week to give residents of the city access to silence. More about All-pink Silent Room creates quiet sanctuary beside a Beirut highway
Atelier Pierre Thibault split this lakeside home in Canada into two volumes that face on to a small courtyard in between. More about Waterfront home by Atelier Pierre Thibault overlooks Quebec's Lac Masson
Harvard University, Snøhetta and Skanska Technology have teamed up to retrofit an old house, demonstrating how existing buildings can be made more energy efficient to help address climate change. More about Snøhetta's Harvard HouseZero aims to "solve one of the world's biggest energy problems"
With summer on the way, we've rounded up 10 of the best rooftop gardens from Dezeen's Pinterest boards, from a lush oasis on the roof of a Sydney penthouse to a tranquil rooftop courtyard complete with lotus pond in India. More about 10 roof gardens from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that each provide an urban oasis