American firm SOM has completed a new tower in Nanchang, China, which features an exterior diagrid system that helps to shade the glass building. More about SOM adds glass skyscraper to growing Chinese tech district
French architecture studio Urbane Kultur has refurbished and extended this dome-shaped swimming pool just outside Strasbourg, which is one of nearly 200 built around France in the 1970s (+ slideshow). More about Urbane Kultur adds boomerang-shaped extension to domed Tournesol swimming pool
Brisbane studio Vokes and Peters has converted this timber holiday home in Queensland into a permanent residence for a semi-retired couple by adding an angular extension (+ slideshow). More about Vokes and Peters adds black timber extension to a cabin on Australia's Sunshine Coast
The internal spaces of this house in the Japanese city of Ikoma are arranged around a full-height void that incorporates the staircase (+ slideshow). More about House in Ikoma has a central void that stretches all the way up to its pitched roof
Gabled blocks with brightly coloured facades house bedrooms for children with Cerebral Palsy at this treatment centre in Madrid, which has been updated by local studio Hans Abaton (+ slideshow). More about Hans Abaton styles children's dormitory at Esther Koplowitz Foundation as row of colourful houses
Curving balconies featuring tropical planting wrap a lightwell in the core of this narrow home in Ho Chi Minh City that is just 3.5 metres wide. More about Curved lightwell cuts through 3.5-metre-wide Vietnam townhouse by Kientruc O
Pomo summer: Hans Hollein conceived the Vulcania Centre Européen du Volcanisme amusement park – one of the latest examples of Postmodern architecture in our series – as a journey to the centre of the earth, citing Dante's Inferno among his influences for the subterranean design (+ slideshow). More about Postmodern architecture: Vulcania Centre Européen du Volcanisme by Hans Hollein
This London house extension for a gallery director features a large round window inspired by circular voids that appear in the works of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and abstract painter Ben Nicholson (+ slideshow). More about Jimi House by Paul Archer Design features round window inspired by abstract art
Following the controversial selection of two winning entries in a competition to design the Bauhaus Museum Dessau's new home, we've created a Pinterest board filled with some of the most iconic and unusual new institutions in the world, including Renzo Piano's Whitney in New York and Frank Gehry's Biomuseo in Panama.
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An overhanging upper storey clad in concrete panels leans out over the glazed entrance of this ballet rehearsal building, added to a former transportation hub in the German city of Düsseldorf (+ slideshow). More about GMP Architekten's ballet facility features materials that reference its industrial setting
Groves Natcheva Architects have turned to movie making, setting a "dark and psychotically inventive" short film in an apartment they renovated to explore new ways of representing architecture beyond still images (+ movie). More about Groves Natcheva produce thriller movie to explore alternative ways of presenting architecture
Pomo summer: Michael Graves' pink and teal Portland Municipal Services Building in Portland, Oregon, is one of Postmodernism's most important structures – and also one of its most divisive. As our season dedicated to the controversial movement nears its end, we revisit the building that kickstarted the debate about preserving Postmodern architecture. More about Postmodern architecture: the Portland Municipal Services Building, Oregon, by Michael Graves
The entrance to this white house by Osaka architecture studio IZUE is contained within a hole in the slatted wooden porch that frames a view through to the sea (+ slideshow). More about House on Awaji Island has a timber porch with a house-shaped entrance
The Flight 93 crash-site memorial built to commemorate the victims of 9/11 opened to the public today in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, marking the 14th anniversary of the attacks. More about Flight 93 Memorial opens in Pennsylvania to mark 14th anniversary of 9/11
Wooden shingles clad the end wall and pitched roofs of this terrace in the English county of Hampshire, designed as a prototype for affordable, sustainable construction in the area (+ slideshow). More about Ash Sakula Architects designs three mews houses for a rural eco development
Measured Architecture has completed a family residence in Vancouver that features an exterior made from blackened steel and wood-marked concrete (+ slideshow). More about Measured Architecture clads a Vancouver home in wood-textured concrete
Dutch firm Mecanoo has unveiled plans for a £350 million engineering school at The University of Manchester in the UK. More about Mecanoo designs huge engineering campus for The University of Manchester
French 3D-printing company Fabulous has brought together a team of scientists and architects to imagine a bubble-shaped habitat for Mars that can be printed on the red planet. More about 3D-printed bubble house proposed for living on Mars
Student-style accommodation with communal facilities could help solve London's housing crisis and regenerate urban centres around the country, according to interior designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver. More about Student-style accommodation for adults "is going to be the next market" says Naomi Cleaver
Barcelona studio NOEM has designed a home for a film director and science-fiction fan that resembles a spaceship raised above its forested site in a suburb of Madrid (+ slideshow). More about The Spaceship Home by NOEM is a shiny elevated structure influenced by sci-fi movies