Canadian studio Bing Thom Architects has completed a community swimming pool building in suburban Vancouver, with a roof made from a series of giant trusses and skylights (+ slideshow). More about Beams of daylight "streak across the walls" at Bing Thom's aquatics centre in British Columbia
Architect Renzo Piano has been called upon to lead reconstruction efforts in towns left devastated by the earthquake that struck central Italy last week, and to mitigate against future disasters. More about Renzo Piano to lead recovery plan following Italian earthquake
Homes in this week's roundup from different American states are in tiny Rhode Island, and include a cluster of barn-shaped volumes clad in wood and a black weekend retreat with pyramid-like skylights (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in Rhode Island on Dezeen
Japanese studio CAPD has used large wooden boxes to created rooms and mezzanine floors within a house in Tokushima Prefecture (+ slideshow). More about Wooden boxes define rooms and mezzanines in Loft House by CAPD
American director Spike Jonze has used an iconic Los Angeles music hall by Modernist architect Welton Becket as the venue for a four-minute perfume advert for French fashion house Kenzo (+ movie). More about Welton Becket's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stars in Kenzo perfume advert
Architecture students have built a train-inspired party pavilion in the grounds of a former factory, featuring a glowing wooden carriage that shuttles along a raised platform (+ slideshow) More about Students create Night Train party pavilion for former brewery in Latvia
Work has completed on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by British architect David Adjaye, which is poised to open next month (+ slideshow). More about David Adjaye's NMAAHC gets set to open in Washington DC
US firms Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design have completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow). More about Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design build community-oriented farmhouse in Utah
Opinion: with the exemplary restoration of Alvar Aalto's seminal Viipuri/Vyborg Library, Finland has schooled Russia in how to treat its neglected 20th-century buildings. Now they need to restore the rest of the city, says Owen Hatherley. More about "Vyborg looks like Helsinki might after a long, drawn-out war"
A pavilion designed by the late Zaha Hadid for London's Serpentine Gallery has been installed in the grounds of a stately home in England's Peak District, ahead of its sale. More about Zaha Hadid's 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion put up for sale at Chatsworth House
London residents have called for height caps and no-build zones to protect the city from the increasing number of new skyscrapers. More about Londoners demand skyscraper height restrictions
This single-family home in Delaware was built using wood reclaimed from a nearby agricultural structure slated for demolition (+ slideshow). More about DIGSAU uses reclaimed barn wood to clad modern home in Delaware
Dutch studio DUS Architects has 3D printed an eight-square-metre cabin and accompanying bathtub in Amsterdam, and is now inviting guests to stay overnight (+ slideshow). More about DUS Architects builds 3D-printed micro home in Amsterdam
This tall, gabled house by Bernardo Bader Architekten is covered in lengths of blackened timber and stands on the edge of a small stream in Lochau, Austria (+ slideshow). More about Blackened timber house by Bernardo Bader Architekten stands on the edge of a stream
House-shaped blocks and courtyards make up this cedar-clad residence in Christchurch, New Zealand, which architect Case Ornsby designed to replace another destroyed in the 2011 earthquake (+ slideshow). More about Case Ornsby completes cedar-clad house in Christchurch divided up by courtyards
Canadian firm ZAS has completed a glass and aluminium-clad public library in suburban Toronto, which has a sculptural form influenced by a local rollercoaster (+ slideshow). More about ZAS creates Toronto library with curved walls and slanted windows
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's vast ribbed structure that soars over the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York is captured in these images by British photography duo Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). More about Calatrava's Oculus at the World Trade Center photographed by Hufton + Crow
Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has created a new arts centre in the suburbs, fronted by a colonnade of vertical and angled stainless steel supports (+ slideshow). More about Chunky steel-clad columns front ACDF's Diane Dufresne Art Centre in Canada
A+Awards: another project lauded at this year's Architizer A+ Awards is this Mexican hacienda, where crumbling buildings were restored and connected with new elements by local studio AS Arquitectura to create a hotel (+ slideshow). More about AS Arquitectura turns dilapidated Mexican hacienda into characterful resort
House-shaped structures sit atop towers and are arranged around landscaped gardens at this residential development in Bordeaux by local firm Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Verons Associates (+ slideshow). More about Gabled penthouses sit atop apartment blocks at Bordeaux housing scheme