A small writing studio designed by Aaron Neubert Architects on a hill in Los Angeles frames views of the Griffith Observatory and other landmarks through a room-sized picture window (+ slideshow). More about Black Box writing studio by ANX captures iconic Los Angeles views
Movie: in the next instalment from our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director recalls the difficulty in convincing Japanese architect Toyo Ito to design the gallery's 2002 summer pavilion. More about Toyo Ito "gulped" when asked to design the 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Square concrete frames in different sizes create four layers of rooms for this house at the foot of Japan's Mount Rokkō by Y+M Design Office (+ slideshow). More about Slide House by Y+M Design Office comprises four layers of square concrete frames
Our most visited story last week was about an installation of 100,000 white balloons at Covent Garden in London. Stories about the child-friendly inflatables are always popular on Dezeen so we've assembled our all-time top ten balloon posts, including a bridge, an airship and a levitating bench. More about Dezeen's ten most popular stories about design with balloons
A Southern California landscape architect is questioning why Frank Gehry was chosen to lead the masterplanning effort for the Los Angeles River redevelopment, citing a lack of expertise and public input. More about Gehry's selection as LA River masterplanner sparks criticism
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has revealed plans for a visitors' centre with rammed-earth walls in Europe's largest modern and contemporary sculpture park. More about Feilden Fowles plans rammed-earth visitors' centre for Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Dutch architecture studio GAAGA has completed a three-winged wooden tea house in Leiden, the Netherlands, featuring large windows on all sides to allow panoramic views of the surrounding park (+ slideshow). More about GAAGA uses prefabricated wooden walls to build "three-legged" tea house in a Dutch park
Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London, which has so far melted cars and been blamed for powerful downdraughts, has been named the worst building in the UK this year. More about Walkie Talkie wins 2015 Carbuncle Cup for worst UK building
The triangular window bays that project from the facade of this Sydney housing block by MHN Design Union appear either red or yellow, depending on the viewing angle (+ slideshow). More about Sydney apartment block by MHN Design Union appears to change colour
Seoul architecture studio AIN Group has built a three-metre-wide house for three residents in one of the city's most densely populated districts. More about Three-metre-wide house in Seoul by AIN Group accommodates three individual residents
Znameni Ctyr Architekti has replaced a run-down mountain chalet in the Czech Republic with a similar but more contemporary version that leans outward as if about to fall over (+ slideshow). More about Znameni Ctyr completes a contemporary chalet in the Krkonoše mountains
This holiday chalet by Bangalore firm Biome Environmental Solutions has walls of stone and mud brick, and nestles into a hillside overlooking a tea and coffee plantation in southern India (+ slideshow). More about Hornbill House by Biome Environmental Solutions faces out over an Indian tea plantation
Architecture office Penoyre & Prasad has added an angular studio building clad entirely in zinc panels to the campus of Wimbledon College of Arts in south-west London (+ slideshow). More about Zinc cladding lends "workplace aesthetic" to Wimbledon art studios by Penoyre & Prasad
The Broad museum designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro is set to open in September, heralding an architecture boom in Los Angeles. More about Instagram users offer a preview of The Broad museum in Los Angeles
Chinese firm MAD Architects has proposed a futuristic housing scheme for LA that features sculptural towers wrapped in gardens and connected by sky bridges. More about MAD proposes conceptual "vertical village" for LA as alternative to sprawl
Photo essay: British photographer Simon Kennedy documents an old laboratory at University College London in this series of manipulated images, which each come in positive and negative forms (+ slideshow). More about Constructed Images: Simon Kennedy distorts the interior of a disused London laboratory
This family home in Maryland by Office Mian Ye is sheathed in a wooden brise-soleil, enabling views of the landscape while also offering privacy (+ slideshow). More about Office Mian Ye wraps a Maryland home in wood battens made of knotty cedar
Visualisation studio Bloomimages has created a series of hyper-realistic renderings depicting a home and studio for an artist in the ageing concrete structures of an old shipyard on the edge of the North Sea (+ slideshow). More about Photo-realistic renderings depict an imaginary house in a wild seaside landscape
Concrete slabs, translucent glass planks and frameless window walls offer varying degrees of privacy for this house in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan by Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). More about Pitsou Kedem brings together translucent, transparent and opaque materials for family house
Designed to look like a garden wall, this seemingly windowless brick house in Dublin was created by ODOS Architects to reference an orchard that once occupied the site (+ slideshow). More about ODOS Architects creates introverted house on "undevelopable" site in Dublin