A transparent sauna that exposes its bathers and a charred timber globe offering refuge from the chilly weather are among this year's Winter Stations installations on the shores of Lake Ontario (+ slideshow). More about Winter follies open along the frozen beaches of Canada's Lake Ontario
Taking influences from the vernacular houses of the southern US, this low-cost house in Houston by ZDES architects is designed to accommodate a family, but can be divided up to allow the owners to rent out private areas. More about Shotgun Chameleon house in Houston designed to help its owners offset their mortgage
London office Studio Octopi has returned to a house it renovated over five years ago to add a loft extension, creating a study and a reading room connected by a perforated steel staircase (+ slideshow). More about Studio Octopi adds plywood-lined loft extension to RCA professor's house
A decommissioned Soviet rocket is the centrepiece for this sculptural cast-concrete office in York, England, designed by Make Architects for insurance company Hiscox (+ slideshow). More about Hiscox office building by Make Architects features a grand staircase and a Soviet rocket
A new taco restaurant in Austin, Texas, by Chioco Design references mid-century American roadside buildings and signage with bright red columns and a distinctive roofline (+ slideshow). More about Torchy's Tacos by Chioco Design references 1950s roadside architecture
Movie: in the final instalment of our exclusive video series, Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones reflects on Smiljan Radić's use of handmade paper models to design his bulbous pavilion in 2014. More about Model making was key to the design of Smiljan Radić's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2014
New images of a planned 304-metre-tall tower in Brooklyn by SHoP Architects have been revealed in advance of a review by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. More about New images of SHoP's supertall Brooklyn tower revealed
This year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale chief curator Diogo Seixas Lopes, who has been described as one of the most important thinkers on Portuguese architecture, has died. More about Lisbon Architecture Triennale curator Diogo Seixas Lopes dies aged 43
Architects office McGonigle McGrath has been granted planning permission to transform a heritage-listed war memorial building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a boutique hotel. More about McGonigle McGrath to convert Belfast memorial building into boutique hotel
Dutch landscape firm West 8 has masterplanned a new botanical garden in Houston, Texas, featuring a mosaic of gardens and a bridge incorporating an arch of trees. More about West 8 plans botanical garden for Houston featuring an arching tree bridge
The trio of white concrete blocks that form this Mexico City home have been arranged around a shallow pool and a tree by architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso (+ slideshow). More about White concrete house by Taller Hector Barroso surrounds a tranquil pool
Brooklyn creative agency Quoted Studios has produced an animated video using audio excerpts from an interview with legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, recorded two years before his death (+ movie). More about Frank Lloyd Wright interview from the 1950s revived in animated movie
3XN has unveiled plans to build a residential tower in Aarhus that will be almost as tall as the Danish city's cathedral. More about 3XN wins approval for Aarhus tower rivalling the height of the city's cathedral
London firm Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to lead a major seafront redevelopment in Brighton and Hove, England – eight years after a controversial scheme by California architect Frank Gehry was scrapped. More about Haworth Tompkins chosen to replace Gehry on Brighton seafront redevelopment
Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel Architects has rebuilt the central railway station in The Hague with a huge diamond-patterned glass roof (+ slideshow). More about Benthem Crouwel's new station for The Hague brings light in through a patterned glass roof
Canadian firm Architecture Open Form had to negotiate strict preservation requirements with this renovation of a 125-year-old dwelling in Montreal (+ slideshow). More about Architecture Open Form creates black facade for historic Montreal home
Soft indents create hundreds of spots across the concrete walls of this health centre in northeast France, designed by Atelier Martel to offer support and treatment to epilepsy sufferers (+ slideshow). More about Epilepsy care home by Atelier Martel features stippled concrete walls
The space at the heart of this rusting steel memorial narrows to a width of just 80 centimetres, designed to make visitors empathise with the "feeling of oppression" experienced by Holocaust victims (+ slideshow). More about SET Architects installs towering steel Holocaust memorial in a Bologna square
US-based firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has envisioned a new district in Tokyo that includes a mile-high skyscraper and infrastructure elements that will protect the city from natural disasters (+ slideshow). More about KPF conceives futuristic new city quarter for archipelago in Tokyo Bay
Movie: in the penultimate instalment of our exclusive video series, Julia Peyton-Jones explains why it was a gamble to commission the relatively young Sou Fujimoto to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2013. More about Sou Fujimoto was considered "a risk" for the 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion