Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has stacked offset volumes that contain a hotel and office spaces to form a tower in Guadalajara. More about Angled louvres shade glass skyscraper in Guadalajara by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Elon Musk has revealed a plan for easing city congestion that would see an underground network of tunnels transporting cars on high-speed skates travelling at 130 miles per hour. More about Elon Musk's Boring Company plans to beat traffic with underground "car skates"
Over the last few months we've been publishing short movies about shape-shifting architecture on our Facebook page. Here are 10 of the best, including projects with sliding walls, kinetic facades and rotating rooms. More about 10 movies featuring buildings that move or change shape
Vito Acconci, whose provocative works range from an artificial island to a performance that involved masturbation, has died aged 77. More about "Subversive, shocking and truly unique" artist and architect Vito Acconci dies
US firm Andersson-Wise Architects has created a modest boathouse in Texas, designed to blend with its site as if it were "in a state of natural decomposition". More about Andersson-Wise assembles new and salvaged materials into rustic Austin boathouse
This concrete house in Tel Aviv by Bar Orian Architects features vertical louvres that can be either rotated to filter light or slid open to reveal the windows behind. More about Box-framed louvres shade windows of concrete house in Tel Aviv
Filigreed carbon-fibre shutters fold around the oriel window of Foster + Partners' Apple Store in Dubai, shading the shop floor during the day but opening at night to views of the Burj Khalifa. More about Foster + Partners completes Dubai Apple Store with carbon-fibre "solar wings"
Angular, board-marked concrete walls offer a variety of views from the pared-back spaces inside this house designed by Steimle Architekten in Tübingen, Germany. More about Steimle Architekten completes "crystal-like" concrete house in Germany
Austin studio Design Hound has completed a local home with light-toned facades, designed to help to create a "soft transition" into the residence's bright interior. More about Gable wall conceals double-height atrium in Austin home by Design Hound
A+Awards: this concert venue in the Dutch city of Leiden is clad with panels of weathering steel and was awarded a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More about Weathering steel clads "pop temple" in Leiden by Ector Hoogstad Architecten
A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More about Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees
In a play on Slovenia's traditional wooden barns, Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti has extruded the shape of a chimney along the top of this house to create a continuous skylight. More about Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti builds wooden house with chimney-shaped skylight
Spanish Zooco Estudio has completed a complex of granite-clad buildings in the city of Verín that come together to form an arts centre for the Galician region. More about Zooco Estudio uses granite to unify disparate blocks of Gallician arts centre
Triangular windows are set beneath the pitched roofs of this house in England's South Downs National Park, which London studio Alma-nac designed to sit discreetly in its wooded setting. More about Alma-nac slots angular openings into timber-clad gables of House in the Woods
The main living areas of this compact holiday home near New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour are arranged perpendicular to a platform that provides space for three tents used to accommodate guests. More about Tents create guest bedrooms with panoramic views at Peggy Deamer's New Zealand retreat
OMA's trouser-shaped CCTV tower and Herzog & de Meuron's Bird's Nest stadium feature in this photo series by Kris Provoost, which documents the "weird architecture" China has tried to ban. More about Kris Provoost photographs the most flamboyant architecture of China's building boom
Rows of perforated aluminium shades intended to represent the feathers of an eagle shield the facade of this concrete and glass church in the Taiwanese city of Tainan. More about "Feather-like" screens front church in Taiwan by MAYU Architects
California-based Studio Bergtraun has completed a holiday home in Tahoe, nestling a simple black volume clad in corrugated metal into the steep landscape. More about Studio Bergtraun perches black cabin on steep slope in the Sierra Nevada mountains
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has helped to revive a former farming village in the Alentejo region as a high-end hotel, featuring whitewashed interiors and original vaulted ceilings. More about Eduardo Souto de Moura transforms Portuguese farming village into luxury retreat
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has mothballed 10,000 of IKEA's award-winning refugee shelters over concerns about the product's vulnerability to fire. More about Ten thousand IKEA refugee shelters left unused over fire fears, United Nations admits