New York studio Architensions has enlarged a Brooklyn townhouse by adding two boxy volumes clad in vertical slats of burnt wood (+ slideshow). More about Architensions clads rear facade of historic Brooklyn townhouse in charred wood
Scandinavian firm White Arkitekter has won a competition to design a sustainable housing development on a sloped, uninhabited hillside in the Faroe Islands. More about White Arkitekter wins housing design contest for the Faroe Islands
Dezeen competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Royal Academy of Arts to give away five pairs of tickets to this year's Annual Architecture lecture, which will be delivered by Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu. More about Competition: win tickets to the Royal Academy's Annual Architecture Lecture
These visualisations show the swathe of skyscrapers set to spring up across New York by 2020. More about New York's 2020 skyline shown in new visualisations
David Adjaye's firm has been selected to design a major new art museum in Riga, Latvia (+ slideshow). More about Adjaye Associates chosen for Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art
The beehive-inspired pavilion created by artist Wolfgang Buttress for the Milan Expo 2015 reopens in London's Kew Gardens this weekend (+ slideshow). More about Wolfgang Buttress' beehive-inspired Expo pavilion relocates to Kew Gardens
Rio 2016: Brazilian studio Rua Arquitetos has completed the golf venue for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, which features a tree-like canopy that collects rainwater to irrigate the course (+ slideshow). More about Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course includes rainwater-collecting canopy by Rua Arquitetos
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed a new building on the grounds of the US Air Force Academy in Colorado, featuring a glass skylight resembling the tail fin of a jet fighter that points towards the North Star (+ slideshow). More about Oblique glass pyramid thrusts skyward from SOM's leadership centre at US military campus
As architecture in Iran undergoes a boom, architects Behzad Yaghmaei and Azadeh Mahmoudi have completed an apartment block in Kerman with decorative brick facades (+ slideshow). More about Pale brickwork creates decorative facade for Iranian apartment building
Kicking off a series that spotlights houses from different US states, we've searched our archive for five of the best residences in Texas. They include a black timber extension to an Austin bungalow and a lakefront dwelling with a pre-rusted steel treehouse (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in Texas on Dezeen
A giant glass-and-steel doughnut that will transport passengers up and down a 162-metre-high pole is undergoing final tests ahead of its opening according to Marks Barfield Architects, who designed the British Airways i360 viewing tower. More about "World's tallest moving observation tower" prepares to welcome first passengers
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: next up in our exclusive video series, Richard Rogers reflects on the battle to select Zaha Hadid's design for the London Aquatics Centre, a building he describes as "a roaring success". More about Richard Rogers "had to fight like hell" for Zaha Hadid's Aquatics Centre design
A year after transforming an old house into a gallery at the foot of the Swiss Alps, architect Matteo Inches has extended the building with a new concrete and granite gallery (+ slideshow). More about Studio Inches adds concrete and granite gallery to Alpine art museum
London and St Louis-based design studio Kiku Obata & Company is overseeing the redevelopment of an ageing downtown district in the US heartland, in a rural town where big-box stores have taken over (+ slideshow). More about Kiku Obata leads revival of historic district in a rural Illinois town
Dezeen promotion: Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu, who was awarded the 2012 Pritzker Prize, will deliver the Royal Academy's prestigious Annual Architecture Lecture this year. More about Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu to deliver Royal Academy Annual Architecture Lecture 2016
Iran is "on the verge of a new era for architecture" according to local architects, as change sweeps through the Islamic republic following the lifting of crippling economic sanctions (+ slideshow). More about Architecture booms as Iran opens its doors to the world
Bjarke Ingel's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which opened last week, will have an afterlife touring Asia and the USA after being bought by Canadian developer Westbank. But what happened to the myriad seasonal architecture marvels erected around the world last year? Dezeen investigates. More about Burnt, recycled, sold: the fate of 2015's temporary pavilions
Architectural photographer Iwan Baan has taken new images of the Steven Holl-designed Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins art museum, which show the structure as it enters its 10th year (+ slideshow). More about Steven Holl's Bloch Building in Missouri recaptured in photographs by Iwan Baan
With the Euro football championship now underway, we've collected together everything you need to know about six of the tournament's key venues, including a new stadium by Herzog & de Meuron. More about Six key stadiums hosting the Euro 2016 championship games
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with independent publisher Blue Crow Media to offer five readers the chance to win an Art Deco London map. More about Competition: five guides to London's Art Deco architecture to be won