US firm Chen + Suchart Studio has renovated and expanded a 1930s dwelling in Phoenix, Arizona, adding a metal-clad volume with a window wall and a pointy roof (+ slideshow). More about Chen + Suchart extends historic Arizona home with metal-clad gabled addition
Opinion: the light-filled, social spaces at Diller Scofidio + Renfro's medical education centre at Columbia University could make future doctors demand more from their workspaces and ultimately pave the way for better hospitals, says Alan G Brake. More about "DS+R's education building suggests architectural innovation can still be put to the public good"
Open House London takes place this weekend, giving members of the public access to 750 buildings. Dezeen editor Anna Winston picks 10 of the best houses and apartments that will open their doors to nosy visitors and architecture enthusiasts. More about 10 of the best private homes to explore in London during Open House
Dezeen promotion: New London Architecture is now accepting entries for Don't Move, Improve! 2017, a competition to find the best house extensions in London. More about Call for entries to NLA's Don't Move, Improve! awards 2017
London Design Festival 2016: architect Alison Brooks has pushed the limits of cross-laminated timber with The Smile, an inhabitable "mega-tube" with both of its ends raised up into the air (+ slideshow). More about Alison Brooks creates giant smile using cross-laminated tulipwood
Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab has completed a house on the Spanish island of Mallorca, made up of white blocks that are all oriented towards different viewpoints (+ slideshow). More about Four angular white volumes form house in Mallorca by OHLAB
The jagged form of this climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter is covered in grey, brown and white shingles that reference a snow-covered mountain behind the building (+ slideshow). More about Norwegian climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter resembles a snow-capped mountain
Brooklyn studio TA Dumbleton Architect took cues from two divergent typologies – an old farmhouse and a city loft – while designing this weekend retreat on Long Island in New York (+ slideshow). More about Giant window fills gable end of Hamptons guest house by TA Dumbleton
Brexit: the Royal Institute of British Architects has written to the UK's Brexit minister David Davis to warn that construction is facing a skills deficit. More about Brexit could trigger skills crisis in architecture and construction says RIBA
London Design Festival 2016: architecture firms have created installations along one of London's most famous shopping streets for the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Regent Street Windows project (+movie). More about Architects create 10 installations for RIBA Regent Street Windows 2016
Brexit Design Manifesto: designer Marc Newson and architect Patrik Schumacher are among the leading industry figures to have added their names to the Brexit Design Manifesto since its launch yesterday. More about Marc Newson joins rapidly growing number of supporters for Dezeen's Brexit Design Manifesto
MNy Arkitekter has used seven varieties of timber to create this gabled house on the shoreline of a small lake in Tenala, Finland (+ slideshow). More about MNy Arkitekter uses seven types of timber for Finnish lake house
US firm Studio Ma has drawn inspiration from horseshoes, woven baskets and rugged landscapes for its design of a Western heritage museum in the metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona (+ slideshow). More about Museum of the West by Studio Ma features walls made of textured concrete
Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit entries to this year's A' Design Awards (+ slideshow). More about Call for entries to A' Design Awards and Competition 2017
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed a honeycomb-like structure comprising a series of interconnected staircases to sit at the centre of the vast Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's West Side. More about Heatherwick unveils staircase structure as "centrepiece" for New York's Hudson Yards
Maryland is the next state in our series of roundups focused on residential architecture across the US. A house sheathed in a wooden brise-soleil and a home with walls that look like pixellated blocks are among our top five in the region (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in Maryland on Dezeen
Brexit Design Manifesto: more than 100 of the UK's leading design figures have backed a manifesto that calls on the government to support the design sector after Brexit. More about Conran, Rogers and Heatherwick back Dezeen's Brexit Design Manifesto
A tomb that was designed but never realised by modernist architect Adolf Loos has been built by British architect Sam Jacob in a historic London cemetery. More about Sam Jacob erects Adolf Loos-designed mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery
Koen van Velsen Architects has created a new transport hub in Dutch city Breda, featuring a huge entrance canopy and a variety of brickwork styles (+ slideshow). More about Koen van Velsen Architects creates patchwork brick walls for bus and rail station in Breda
Dandelions are used to make medicine within this timber and concrete complex that architects office Archihood WXY has built in South Korea (+ movie). More about Dandelion farm and visitor centre completed by Archihood WXY in South Korea