To help this community centre blend into its residential setting in Takamatsu, Japan, designer Yasunari Tsukada divided the building up into two house-shaped blocks (+ slideshow). More about Sanjo Hokusei Community Centre designed by Yasunari Tsukada to look like a pair of houses
New York studio Young Projects has completed a warming hut for a housing development in Alberta that consists of a fireplace set within a slatted wooden box (+ slideshow). More about Young Projects creates "inhabitable fireplace" for a lakefront site in western Canada
Architect Sadie Morgan of dRMM has vowed to put design at the heart of a £100 billion revamp of UK infrastructure, after being named as a member of a government commission that will advise on how the money should be spent. More about Sadie Morgan to fight for design in £100 billion UK infrastructure review
Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones, who launched the Serpentine Pavilion commission and turned the tiny London arts venue into one of the UK's most influential architecture clients, is to step down after 25 years.
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This house in Osaka by Japanese studio Tato Architects features walls that step back and forth, worktops that merge with staircases, and windows that wrap around entire rooms (+ slideshow). More about Tato Architects' House in Toyonaka is divided into offset horizontal volumes
British studio Haworth Tompkins has completed its third building for the Royal College of Art's campus in London's Battersea – an industrial-style facility for ceramics, glass and metal-work students (+ slideshow). More about Haworth Tompkins adds another building to Royal College of Art's Battersea campus
This glazed pavilion-like living space by Argentinian studio Alarciaferrer Arquitectos traverses a shallow ravine that runs through a eucalyptus forest to the shore of Lake Los Molinos (+ slideshow). More about Glass pavilion by Alarciaferrer Arquitectos bridges a lakeside gully in Argentina
Architecture studio Penda has designed a meadow containing sunken pathways and concealed meeting places, which opens next month as part of China's International Garden Expo 2015. More about Penda highlights global water crisis with meadow pathway installation
Pierre-Alain Dupraz Architecte chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance (+ slideshow). More about Pierre-Alain Dupraz houses Swiss kindergarten within quartet of concrete blocks
Opinion: sci-fi films, comic books and wild hypothetical ideas by architectural theorists like Archigram and Cedric Price have helped shape the world we live in today. Darran Anderson identifies the next wave of unwitting futurists who could change the way architecture functions. More about "Architecture's eccentrics and outsiders can be retrospectively recast as prophets"
Chicago City Council members have voted in favour of MAD Architects' controversial design for the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on the shore of Lake Michigan. More about Chicago approves MAD's George Lucas Museum plans
Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch furniture designer Piet Hein Eek has joined the debate about whether non-architects should design buildings, saying most architects are "not interested" in construction. More about "Most buildings are drawings filled in by engineers" says Piet Hein Eek
The glazed living space of this cedar-clad cabin near Montreal projects over a woodland slope to optimise views of a nearby lake (+ slideshow). More about Faceted cedar cabin completed by Paul Bernier beside a lake in the Montreal woodland
British architect David Chipperfield has refused to attend the opening of his Museo delle Culture museum and gallery complex in Milan, and is seeking court action over "defects" in the project. More about Chipperfield boycotts opening of his Milan museum amid legal proceedings
Vector Architects designed a huge grassy roof canopy and plant-covered walls for this community centre in southwest China, helping it to blend in with its mountain landscape (+ slideshow). More about Vector Architects disguises mountainside community centre beneath sprawling grass roof
Designer Thomas Heatherwick has applied for planning permission to convert a Victorian coal yard in London's King's Cross into a canal-side shopping destination. More about Heatherwick reveals plans for canal-side shopping centre in London's King's Cross
Declerck-Daels Architecten used different varieties of timber and "frivolous" colours for this surgery in Bruges, in an attempt to make going to the dentist more bearable (+ slideshow). More about 50 Shades of Wood by Declerck-Daels Architecten is a timber dentist surgery in Bruges
Built in the wake of an earthquake, this secondary school in northern Thailand by Vin Varavarn Architects is raised above the ground on metal stilts (+ slideshow). More about Earthquake-resistant school in Thailand raised up on stilts by Vin Varavarn Architects
Landscape firm Gustafson Porter has unveiled plans to create tiered gardens and waterfalls with a towering development proposed for Singapore's Marina Bay. More about Verdant "cloud forests" and waterfalls proposed for new Singapore high-rise
Italian fashion house Fendi has moved into its new headquarters at Rome's Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana – a building commissioned by dictator Benito Mussolini in 1943 that has been renovated by local architect Marco Costanzi (+ slideshow). More about Fendi moves headquarters into iconic Mussolini-commissioned building