World Architecture Festival 2015: the orange, yellow and green tones of a building in Switzerland are captured in this shot by Fernando Guerra, which has been named best architectural photograph of the year. More about Fernando Guerra wins Arcaid award for best architectural photograph of 2015
Wood is taking over from steel and concrete as the architectural wonder material of the 21st century, with architects praising its sustainability, quality and speed of construction. (+ slideshow). More about Architects embrace "the beginning of the timber age"
Foster + Partners has won a competition to redevelop a 35-hectare neighbourhood by the River Nile in downtown Cairo. More about Foster unveils winning masterplan for waterfront Cairo neighbourhood
Seoul studio OBBA hung thin white strips around this temporary pavilion, designed as a resting place for visitors to an outdoor art exhibition (+ movie). More about Translucent curtains surround "floating" Oasis pavilion by OBBA
This stripy brick home stands among coconut trees on the shoreline of Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand (+ slideshow). More about Coconut groves surround brick retirement home on a Thai beach by NPDA Studio
Paris studio Marchi Architectes has extended a small museum in the French village of Biévres and added a community centre with a series of pitched roofs (+ slideshow). More about Marchi Architectes completes a community centre in the heart of an old French village
At this house for a racing driver, Czech studio Stempel & Tesar has shifted the living spaces upstairs to make room for a car workshop below (+ slideshow). More about Car workshop takes priority at Stempel & Tesar's house for a racing driver
A multi-directional black staircase bridges the main entrance space in this converted office building in Belgium (+ slideshow). More about Steven Vandenborre adds cross-shaped staircase to an industrial office conversion
Movie: in our next exclusive movie with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director discusses the artificial mountain MVRDV proposed for the 2004 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which eventually proved too expensive to build. More about MVRDV's proposed 2004 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was "a heroic failure"
Architect Jeanne Gang has unveiled plans for a geologically-inspired extension to the American Museum of Natural History in New York (+ slideshow). More about Studio Gang designs curving concrete expansion to New York's Natural History Museum
This multipurpose building at the University of Luxembourg combines an 18-storey tower with a horizontal volume that cantilevers at both ends (+ slideshow). More about Steel grid covers double cantilevered building for the University of Luxembourg
A traditional Japanese construction method was used for this house in Tokyo, which features four wooden columns arranged in a square to support the rest of the timber frame (+ slideshow). More about FT Architects' 4 Columns house features a traditional timber frame and minimal interior
Belgian architects Edouard Brunet and François Martens have converted a terraced house in Brussels into two apartments, adding a projecting box with a full-height glass wall to house a new kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Kitchen extension projects from the top floor of a renovated Brussels house
Estudio ALA created this open-air chapel with a tall brick tower for staff at a tequila factory in the Mexican countryside (+ slideshow). More about Estudio ALA completes terracotta chapel at a Mexican tequila factory
World Architecture Festival 2015: Ole Scheeren has won World Building of the Year 2015 for The Interlace, a series of apartment blocks stacked diagonally across one another to frame terraces and gardens. More about Ole Scheeren's "vertical village" named World Building of the Year 2015
World Architecture Festival 2015: BIG's proposal for a 150-metre-high twisted skyscraper in Vancouver has won the title Future Project of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival. More about BIG's twisted Vancouver tower named Future Project of the Year 2015
World Architecture Festival 2015: a natural wetland park at the mouth of three rivers in China's Zhejiang Province has won the World Landscape of the Year prize. More about World Landscape of the Year 2015 prize goes to Chinese wetlands park by Turenscape
World Architecture Festival 2015: a Swedish football club facility with a roof that doubles as spectator seating is the 2015 winner of the Small Project of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival. More about Football club building with rooftop seating wins Small Project of the Year 2015
White concrete volumes protrude from this house in central Italy, which features a bamboo-filled courtyard and a subterranean swimming pool (+ slideshow). More about Architettura Matassoni uses dislocated volumes to form white villa in Tuscany
Muji's set of ready-constructed huts were designed by Konstantin Grcic, Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa as minimal rural refuges for escaping the "hustle and bustle" of the city (+ slideshow). More about Muji launches trio of prefab minimal cabins by Morrison, Grcic and Fukasawa