Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has revealed plans for his first tall building in North America – a residential tower in Vancouver with a curved silhouette (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma unveils plans for curved apartment tower in Vancouver
Mexican artist Santiago Borja has built a thatched observatory on the roof of one of Holland's best-preserved Modernist houses (+ slideshow). More about Thatched observatory installed on roof of 1930s Sonneveld House in Rotterdam
Technologies like driverless cars and smart heating systems could end up making cities dysfunctional according to Maarten Hajer, chief curator of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016 (+ interview). More about "Smart technology is a solution looking for a problem," says Rotterdam Biennale curator
London Design Festival 2016: a Kickstarter campaign has launched to bring a crazy golf course designed by architects and designers including Tom Dixon, Paul Smith and the late Zaha Hadid to Trafalgar Square in London (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid and Paul Smith design holes for crazy golf course in London's Trafalgar Square
Norman Foster has completed a Maggie's Centre for cancer care in his home town of Manchester, featuring a timber-lattice structure, an angular greenhouse and a flower garden (+ slideshow). More about Norman Foster's timber-framed Maggie's Centre opens in his home town of Manchester
French studio Barbarito Bancel Architectes has draped a Dior clothing boutique in Miami in an assemblage of sculpted white panels, intended to evoke a pleated skirt (+ slideshow). More about Miami Dior boutique by Barbarito Bancel is sheathed in curved white concrete panels
Shigeru Ban has travelled to Ecuador to help with disaster relief, following a major earthquake that has caused the death of over 650 people. More about Shigeru Ban joins disaster relief effort following Ecuador earthquake
A wooden structure and hand-built joinery are left exposed throughout the interior of this compact house in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, by architecture studio Hitotomori (+ slideshow). More about Hitotomori completes small house with a custom-made plywood interior
US firm Lake Flato has built a waterfront retreat in Austin, Texas, featuring a two-storey porch and a slender lap pool that runs alongside the home (+ slideshow). More about Lake Flato completes spacious Austin home featuring a boardwalk leading to a lake
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a city hall for the Vietnamese city of Bac Ninh comprising a pair of planted towers, which lean together at the centre to frame a series of elevated viewing decks (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects plans leaning, plant-covered towers for Bac Ninh city hall
New York-based Studio Dror has proposed adding another huge domed structure to Montreal's Expo 67 site on Île Sainte-Hélène, where Buckminster Fuller's Biosphere has sat for almost 50 years (+ movie). More about Studio Dror imagines second giant dome for Montreal's Expo 67 island
Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to design a building for a technology park near Moscow, the first major project the firm has secured since the death of its founder last month. More about Zaha Hadid Architects wins contest for new addition to "Russia's Silicon Valley"
Geometric screens based on flag designs flank the windows of this former marine base in Amsterdam, which Bureau SLA has converted into offices to mark the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the European Union (+ slideshow). More about Bureau SLA updates former naval base in Amsterdam with flag-inspired window screens
Portuguese photographer Nelson Garrido has used both a handheld and drone-mounted camera to capture the zigzagging paths of the Paiva Walkways, an eight-kilometre-long trail through the wild mountain landscape of Arouca, Portugal (+ slideshow). More about Eight-kilometre-long mountain walkway captured in new photographs by Nelson Garrido
Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled conceptual plans for Stockholm's tallest building – a 133-metre wooden skyscraper covered in numbers, which would be erected on top of a 1960s car park in the city centre. More about Anders Berensson proposes wooden skyscraper with decorative facade for Stockholm
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its first completed building since the death of its founder, a new maritime terminal for ferries and cruise liners in Salerno, Italy (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid Architects completes "oyster-like" ferry terminal in Salerno
The pieces of multi-tonal stone used to construct this spa resort in southwest China by Kengo Kuma give the complex a pixelated appearance (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma completes Chinese spa resort with pixellated stonework
Link Arkitektur has added a gabled extension to a 19th-century Norwegian farmhouse, featuring a wooden facade designed to age with the building (+ slideshow). More about Link Arkitektur extends Norwegian farmhouse with contemporary gabled structure
Courtyards, balconies and roof terraces all features in this São Paulo house by local studio Metro, which is made up of four separate but connected concrete towers (+ slideshow). More about Four concrete towers make up Metro's BN House in São Paulo
This tea-fermentation facility by South Korean office FHHH Friends features a combination of opaque and perforated concrete walls, which also screen a cafe, restaurant and a house (+ slideshow). More about FHHH Friends creates "rough and ready" concrete tea-fermentation facility in South Korea