Photo essay: German photographer Christian Richter has been breaking into abandoned buildings across Europe to capture their "swan song" for his Abandoned series (+ slideshow). More about Christian Richter's Abandoned series chronicles Europe's empty buildings
RooyDaad Architects created this monochrome house as a weekend retreat from their practice in Tehran, and based its design on a housing model by Le Corbusier (+ slideshow). More about Monochrome Iranian holiday home by RooyDaad Architects is dark outside and white inside
Portland studio Architecture Building Culture has created a gabled structure to accommodate more residents at a local communal home for single mothers (+ slideshow). More about Architecture Building Culture adds housing units to recovery centre in Portland
Riga studio Mailītis AIIM has used scaffolding poles, timber planks and corrugated plastic to create this events pavilion – one of three temporary structures built in the grounds of a former brewery in Latvia (+ slideshow). More about Mailītis AIIM builds scaffolding and timber pavilion at Latvian brewery
Hamburg studio Asdfg Architekten has converted a 19th-century miller's house in Berlin into a modern family home arranged around original brick walls (+ slideshow). More about Asdfg Architekten converts former miller's house into contemporary home
The Via 57 West "courtscraper" by Bjarke Ingels' firm has completed on Manhattan's West Side and is shown in these images by photographer Iwan Baan (+ slideshow). More about Iwan Baan photographs BIG's completed Via 57 West tower in New York
Canadian firm +tongtong has overhauled a traditional home in Toronto, adding a large triangular window, dark zinc cladding and an interior lightwell that provides natural illumination. More about +tongtong uses grey and black zinc to transform Victorian home in Toronto
A red brick building designed for one of the UK's oldest libraries will be the first new addition to Lambeth Palace – the historic home of the Archbishop of Canterbury – in almost two centuries (+ slideshow). More about Wright & Wright unveils first addition to London's historic Lambeth Palace in over 180 years
A technical fault trapped 180 passengers inside the doughnut-shaped viewing pod of the i360 observation tower last night, leaving them suspended above Brighton's seafront for two hours. More about "Slight technical hitch" traps 180 passengers inside world's tallest moving observation tower
London Design Biennale 2016: architect Fernando Romero has unveiled plans for a binational city spanning the US-Mexico border, amid Donald Trump's calls for a wall to be built between the two countries (+ slideshow). More about Borders are "primitive" limits says designer of US-Mexico binational city
The corner appears to have been chopped off this house in Japanese city Oita, revealing a tree growing behind the building's walls (+ slideshow). More about Kenta Eto completes house with sliced-away corner in Japan
This waterfront family dwelling in Maryland by American studio Robert Gurney Architect consists of overlapping volumes clad in stone, wood, fibre cement and glass (+ slideshow). More about Robert Gurney clusters multiple volumes to create Maryland home
This week's roundup in our series on residential architecture from different US states brings us to Arkansas, home to a prefabricated cantilevered dwelling designed by students and a pool house with an overhanging sleeping loft (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in Arkansas on Dezeen
A translucent marble cube by Rex Architecture that will contain the Perelman Performing Arts Center has been unveiled as the "keystone" for the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan (+ slideshow). More about Rex releases images of performing arts centre for New York's World Trade Center
This unofficial drone video captures the construction of Foster + Partners' Apple headquarters in California as the outer shell of the campus nears completion (+ movie). More about Foster + Partners' Apple Campus 2 begins to take shape in drone video
The metal roof of this woodland house in the US state of Arkansas is pinched in the middle so its shape resembles a bowtie (+ slideshow). More about Bowtie House by deMx Architecture has an angular metal roof
The management team behind a 430-metre-long glass bridge in China say its forced closure just 13 days after opening is completely normal. More about Closure of world's highest and longest glass bridge "not a big deal" says organiser
Panoramic glazing frames views of meadows and cornfields from this farmhouse designed by Danish studio Norm Architects for a working farm in southern England (+ slideshow). More about Norm Architects completes contemporary farmhouse in the Suffolk countryside
This house in Berlin designed by Brandt + Simon Architekten is covered in rows of green shingles with curved edges and features windows laid out to resemble a face (+ slideshow). More about Green shingles cover "peculiar" Schuppen house by Brandt + Simon Architekten
Montreal studio YH2 has completed a retreat for Polish-Canadian sculptor Jacek Jarnuszkiewicz, with a vertical form that takes cues from the surrounding forest (+ slideshow). More about YH2 clads Quebec holiday home for a sculptor in red cedar and blackened pine