Brightly painted shipping containers are stacked one on top of the other to house bunk beds at this hostel in Nha Trang, which also features aerial bridges and giant communal hammocks. More about Stacked shipping containers house bedrooms at Vietnam hostel by TAK Architects
Rows of metal sun louvres slotted between structural concrete fins help to shade the glazed facade of this university building near Tel Aviv by local architects David S Robins and Dan Price. More about Fins of metal mesh and concrete shield Tel Aviv school of entrepreneurship from the sun
This rustic dwelling by American studio Salmela Architect consists of stacked boxes with dark grey wood walls and white-trimmed windows. More about Cantilevered boxes form lakeside Minnesota cabin by Salmela Architect
Dezeen promotion: The Southern California Institute of Architecture has put out a final call for architecture students to apply to its masters programme in Los Angeles, starting in autumn 2017. More about Final call for architecture students to apply for SCI-Arc's 2017 masters programme
For those who can't wait for the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg to open next month, creative agency Jung von Matt has released an interactive movie tour of the building filmed by drones. More about Drones offer fly-through preview of Herzog de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Dezeen has teamed up with MAD Architects to give away five signed copies of a book overviewing the firm's past, present and future work. More about Competition: win a copy of MAD's first monograph signed by founder Ma Yansong
In our final movie from the World Architecture Festival 2016, architect Ann Lau explains how Australian firm Hayball plans to create collaborative learning spaces in the Melbourne school that was named Future Project of the Year last month. More about South Melbourne Primary School will feature no formal classrooms says architect Ann Lau
This prefabricated garden hideaway in suburban London acts as a guest house as well as a home office, and is clad in planks of cedar wood. More about Prefabricated garden studio in south London is clad in cedar and lined in birch
Stepped skylights twist up to a peak at one side of this extension designed by Nick Bell Design for the rear of a Sydney residence. More about Concertina rooflight illuminates Sydney house extension by Nick Bell Design
Australian firm Bates Smart is to design a new Embassy of Australia for the US capital, replacing the building that the firm designed for the same purpose in 1964. More about Bates Smart unveils light-filled replacement for its Australian Embassy in Washington DC
Snøhetta has extended the Lillehammer Art Museum and Cinema in Norway with a cantilevering cube covered in a layer of crinkled and polished stainless steel. More about Snøhetta adds crinkled stainless-steel extension to 1960s museum in Norway
In our next exclusive movie from this year's World Architecture Festival, Grant Bailey of Isthmus explains how the Auckland firm's award-winning Kopupaka Reserve was informed by local Maori culture. More about World Landscape of the Year 2016 is "about respect for water" says landscape architect Grant Bailey
The roof terrace of this timber- and stone-clad retreat by Croxatto and Opazo Arquitectos offers holiday-makers panoramic views of a scenic wetland in Chile. More about Rugged oak and stone walls enclose holiday home overlooking Chilean wetlands
Architect David Romero has created colour visualisations of a pair of now-demolished Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, previously only visible in black-and-white photographs. More about David Romero recreates Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in colour visualisations
Students at the University of Colorado Denver have designed and built a series of rustic dwellings for a base camp operated by an outdoor education program. More about Colorado architecture students build micro cabins clad in sheets of hot-rolled steel
Miami firm DOMO Architecture + Design has created renderings that show a series of landscaped features along the border between the USA and Mexico instead of a fence or wall. More about Beautifying the Border proposal replaces US-Mexico fence with landscaping
The sleepy town of Letchworth, England, may have been the first garden city, but it wasn't particularly radical, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More about "The best new towns achieved something the original garden city never did"
Workshop Architecten has created a blackened wood barn for a farm in the Netherlands, which is divided into separate living quarters for sheep and people. More about Blackened wood barn by Workshop Architecten houses both livestock and people
Next up in our review of the year, architecture editor Jessica Mairs selects the 10 architecture trends that defined 2016, from the resurgence of minimalism to the next generation of prefabs and the advent of co-living. More about Dezeen's 10 biggest architecture trends of 2016
The international offices of Dutch architecture firm OMA have been given independence from the head office in Rotterdam, allowing founder Rem Koolhaas to concentrate on personal projects, the architect has explained. More about OMA offices around the world get "independent voice" says Rem Koolhaas