Boxes clad entirely in vertical strips of stained timber are stacked and angled slightly to make the most of ocean views at this house on the outskirts of Melbourne by local firm B.E Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Blackened timber boxes are stacked to provide sea views from Bass Street Residence
Canberra firm Townsend + Associates Architects has created a building with translucent glass walls to contain an existing outdoor swimming pool at China's embassy in the Australian capital (+ slideshow). More about Townsend + Associates encloses a swimming pool in a glazed box at Chinese embassy in Australia
Designed for charity YMCA, this factory-building housing scheme by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners will provide accommodation for 36 homeless young people in Mitcham, south London (+ slideshow). More about Richard Rogers' prefabricated housing for homeless people opens in south London
Airlifted into position by the Slovenian army, this tiny Alpine shelter perches on a rocky outcrop below Skuta Mountain and can sleep up to eight mountaineers (+ slideshow). More about Slovenian mountain cabin by OFIS and Harvard students shelters climbers from extreme weather
Sunken below the crest of a hill in southern Italy, this concrete home and its outdoor pool were designed by Rome studio OSA to be almost imperceivable from the road above (+ slideshow). More about OSA submerges concrete home in a hill above Italy's San Giuliano lake
Vertical timber slats provide shade and privacy for staggered balconies arranged across the facade of this east London housing development by local architects Angela Brady and Robin Mallalieu (+ slideshow). More about Brady Mallalieu Architects adds slatted timber balconies to east London housing scheme
Rough concrete and crumbling stone walls act as a windbreak for the grounds of the Bauzium sculpture gallery in South Korea by Seoul studio Archium (+ slideshow). More about Craggy concrete walls surround South Korean sculpture park by Archium
A strip of glazing interrupts the seamless stone-clad surfaces of this multipurpose cultural venue, which Berlin office Hascher Jehle Architecture designed for a site in the Austrian city of Feldkirch (+ slideshow). More about Montforthaus is a curving stone and glass cultural centre in a medieval Austrian city
On the edge of Mexico's border with the US, this house by New York-based architects T38 Studio hides an enclosed courtyard garden behind its black stucco volumes (+ slideshow). More about House in Mexico by T38 Studio contains a private courtyard garden
This multifunctional building by French studio PPA Architectures, provides a residence, gallery, workshop and events space, and stands at the edge of a golf course on the outskirts of Toulouse, southern France (+ slideshow). More about PPA Architectures completes gallery space and residence overlooking a Toulouse golf course
Zaha Hadid is working with Japanese architecture and engineering firm Nikken Sekkei to win back the Tokyo Olympic stadium project after its first competition-winning design was thrown out in July (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid teams up with Nikken Sekkei to submit new bid for Tokyo 2020 stadium
This moulded concrete cinema by Irish studio dePaor Architects is built on the site of a Georgian merchant's house in Galway, west Ireland (+ slideshow). More about Cast-concrete Galway Picture Palace by dePaor Architects stands behind a Georgian terrace
A pair of steel-clad volumes with pitched roofs and glazed gables provide additional living space behind the ornamental facade of this Victorian terrace in Melbourne (+ slideshow). More about Nic Owen Architects updates ornate Melbourne terrace with ribbed steel extension
The wooden frame of this two-storey family home in Japan's Shiga Prefecture is disguised by a layer of ridged steel panels (+ slideshow). More about Junichi Kato clads House in Shigaraki in dark brown-coated steel
Argentinian studio Adamo-Faiden has designed a group of concrete summer houses called Sociedad de Mar for a patch of forest on the coast of Uruguay (+ slideshow). More about Concrete holiday homes by Adamo-Faiden occupy Uruguay's coastal woodland
A primary school building in Tel Aviv features a facade of perforated screens patterned with an image from a painting by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall – the school's namesake. More about Paritzki & Liani recreate Marc Chagall painting in perforated aluminium for Tel Aviv school facade
This house in Mexico for an elderly couple features four box-shaped buildings arranged around a central courtyard, three of which contain bedrooms and bathrooms for their visiting children (+ slideshow). More about Casa 4.1.4 by AS/D features separate living spaces for different generations of the same family
A double-height space filled with rare vinyl records and magazines is the centrepiece of this music library and venue in Seoul, which was commissioned by credit card company Hyundai Card as a free space for its members (+ slideshow). More about Hyundai Card Music Library by Choi Moongyu is a lending library for vinyl records
Malaysian studio WHBC Architects wrapped this house with a gridded concrete facade, designed to create privacy while providing a frame for tropical plants to grow around the building (+ slideshow). More about Tropical Box house in Kuala Lumpur is wrapped in a concrete "egg crate"
The top of this house for two former politicians near Hastings, England, has been angled and cantilevered to capture views of the sea and provide a covered parking space beneath (+ slideshow). More about Alma-nac skews upper level of Split House to capture best view of the sea