Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: socially minded architecture is a choice not a responsibility according this year's Venice Biennale curator Alejandro Aravena, who has called for "professional quality, not professional charity" to deal with the world's issues. More about Architects have no moral obligation to society says Alejandro Aravena
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is working with architecture firm Gensler to develop a branch of the private Arts Club on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. More about Gwyneth Paltrow enlists Gensler to design Hollywood members-only club
Students from London's Architectural Association have completed a robotically fabricated barn in a wood in Dorset, England, using timber harvested from the surrounding trees. More about AA Design & Make students use a robotic arm to build a woodland barn
Architecture firm Spark wants to use HDPE plastic waste to build a series of elevated beach huts resembling giant pine cones in Singapore. More about Spark unveils plans for colourful beach huts built from recycled ocean plastic
A group of University of Tokyo students overseen by architect Kengo Kuma have developed a 3D-printing pen that can be used to create complex architectural structures out of plastic sticks. More about Tokyo university students create "drawn-in-place" architecture using a 3D-printing pen
Architecture studio Morrow + Lorraine has been given the go ahead to build a set of clifftop holiday homes on the Isle of Portland, England (+ slideshow). More about Morrow + Lorraine to build five holiday homes on England's Jurassic Coast
Austrian architects Winkler + Ruck Architekten and Ferdinand Certov have been selected to create a "floating" roof extension for Vienna's Wien Museum. More about "Floating" extension to be built over roof of Vienna's Wien Museum
This weathering steel bridge by Branch Studio Architects spans a quadrangle at a secondary school in Melbourne's western suburbs, forming an art gallery and viewpoint for students en route to class (+ slideshow). More about Branch Studio Architects embellishes school "flyover" with concertinaed Corten screen
Architecture studio Freadman White has remodelled a 1930s Melbourne house that was extended in the 1970s, and created a new room featuring an angular roof (+ slideshow). More about Freadman White creates new layout for extended 1930s house in Melbourne
This retirement residence by Schwartz and Architecture features a sheltered patio with a large oval skylight, which frames views over Silicon Valley, California (+ slideshow). More about Retirement house by Schwartz and Architecture nestles into a hillside above Silicon Valley
Pale grey bricks are arranged to create a herringbone pattern across the facade of this housing and studio block in New Cross, southeast London. More about Grey herringbone brickwork covers Chan & Eayrs' south London block
South African studio Metropolis has completed a concrete pavilion in the grounds of a house in Cape Town, featuring sheltered seating and dining areas with views of nearby Table Mountain (+ slideshow). More about Concrete garden pavilion by Metropolis offers outdoor dining to a Cape Town villa
A towering steel Holocaust memorial in Italy was popular this week, so we've revisited the best commemorative architecture published on Dezeen. Visit our latest Pinterest board to explore more examples, including a concentration camp house shrouded in glass, a fan-shaped stone structure in Japan and a tribute to suspected witches burnt at the stake in 17th-century Norway.
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The glazed public areas of this cultural centre on the French island of Corsica are sandwiched between a solid concrete base and an upper storey clad in perforated golden metal (+ slideshow). More about Cultural Centre of Bastia contrasts a dark concrete base with a golden crown
Tel Aviv architect Kedem Shinar drew on Israel's Bauhaus architecture and her training in Japan to create the clean lines of this bright white house in Carmey Yossef (+ movie). More about Kedem Shinar bases boxy Israel home on Bauhaus architecture
This mountainside restaurant by Murman Arkitekter has giant triangular gables and is set at the top of a ski slope in northern Sweden (+ slideshow). More about Murman Arkitekter completes tent-shaped restaurant for a Swedish ski resort
Instagram users have been posting images of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's empty Breuer building in New York, before the interiors are populated with art works for its opening next month. More about Instagram users offer a sneak peek inside The Met's empty Breuer building
Carmody Groarke has won a contest to design a precarious cliffside suite for an Art Deco hotel on Burgh Island, which is set off England's south Devon coast. More about Carmody Groarke reveals plans for cliffside hotel on Devon's Burgh Island
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced that the art collector James Goldstein has donated his John Lautner-designed house, which famously appeared in cult film The Big Lebowski, to the museum. More about John Lautner's Big Lebowski porn house gifted to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
London studio Moxon Architects has released images of its design for a home nestled into a quarry in the Scottish highlands, which has been granted planning permission and will start construction later this year (+ slideshow). More about Moxon secures planning permission for house in a quarry surrounded by protected woodland