This movie shows the installation of MVRDV's Crystal Houses – a Chanel store featuring a traditional facade replicated with glass bricks that are "stronger than concrete". More about Movie documents MVRDV's pioneering technique for creating glass brick facades
The late Zaha Hadid's first building in the Arab world, Iran's largest pedestrian bridge and a floating school in Nigeria are among the 19 projects competing to win $1 million in the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid among architects shortlisted for 2016 Aga Khan Award
Carbon fibre is architecture's biggest untapped resource according to architect and researcher Achim Menges, who claims that robots could be programmed to build stadium roofs using the fibrous building material. More about Carbon fibre and robots could create a "fourth industrial revolution" says expert
Four pebble-shaped volumes form this cultural centre completed by Bargone Architetti Associati on the stony shoreline of Lake Maggiore, Italy (+ slideshow). More about Lakeside theatre designed by Bargone Associati to look like huge rocks
Bands of shutters featuring a geometric perforated pattern appear to form seamless surfaces that extend across the facade of this house in Tel Aviv by Israeli architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More about Perforated shutters create geometric facade for Pitsou Kedem's house in Tel Aviv
This home and recording studio for a musician features overhanging roofs and perches on a rocky hillside overlooking a dam in a secret location in Africa (+ slideshow). More about Timber and granite residence by Studio Seilern stands on a rocky ledge above an African dam
This cabin perched on a hillside on Norway's west coast features modular rooms that extend outwards from the main structure to enhance views of the adjacent fjord (+ slideshow). More about Rever & Drage's holiday cabin features wooden pods that frame views of a Norwegian fjord
Photo essay: these images by Spanish photographer and artist Victor Enrich show Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum transported to a Colombian city neighbourhood suffering from an identity crisis (+ slideshow). More about Victor Enrich superimposes New York's Guggenheim onto a troubled Colombian suburb
Architect Philipp Bretschneider has perched a garden viewpoint on a picturesque Mallorcan hillside, using the steel structure to frame views across the Mediterranean Sea (+ slideshow). More about Philipp Bretschneider's simple garden pavilion frames views over the Mediterranean
Plans to build a subterranean residence with a swimming pool for a roof were given the go-ahead this week, prompting us to pin wildly ambitious house designs – built or imagined – to a new Pinterest board.
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Möhring Architekten clad this holiday home in rural Germany in black-painted wood to look like a traditional barn, but then cut windows out of the corners to give it a contemporary edge (+ slideshow). More about House Wieckin by Möhring Architekten features black-painted walls and deep corner windows
Photo essay: keen to embark on career in architecture, young German student Paul Eis has been documenting the buildings of Berlin and Hamburg, but adapting them with bright colours (+ slideshow). More about Paul Eis uses Instagram to give German architecture a colourful makeover
Opinion: Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit hub may be Instagram-friendly, but it is part of a troubling trend for public spending on spaces that aren't really public at all, says Alan G Brake. More about "Calatrava's transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York"
A narrow window extends up to the roof of this chapel-like wooden house in southwest London, bringing light into a compact interior that is partly sunken below ground (+ slideshow). More about Giles Pike Architects completes timber-clad house for a tiny London plot
This floating weather station by Matthew Butcher has been cast adrift in the flood-prone Thames Estuary, and is intended as a critique on the current trend for floating architecture (+ slideshow). More about Matthew Butcher launches floating weather station on Essex's Thames Estuary
New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced an exhibition of projects that aim to tackle the issue of shelter for migration and global refugee emergencies. More about MoMA's Insecurities exhibition to address the global refugee crisis
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha is to be awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this month. More about Paulo Mendes da Rocha chosen to receive Venice Biennale Golden Lion by Alejandro Aravena
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its designs for a new central business district for Prague next to the Masaryk railway station. More about Zaha Hadid Architects presents plans for new Prague business district
For this house on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japanese architect Tetsuo Yamaji aimed to create a unique building using mass-produced components (+ slideshow). More about Tetsuo Yamaji builds "a non-mass-produced house with mass-produced components"
A hole in the roof of this timber-clad house extension in Sydney reveals the location of a secluded courtyard. More about Cutaway Roof House by Scale Architecture has a courtyard sliced out of one side