Huge glass doors pivot from the walls of this stone-walled mountain home, which sits at the foot of Tepozteco mountain in Mexico (+ slideshow). More about EDAA pairs volcanic stone with pivoting glazing at Casa Meztitla in Mexico
Movie: in the first of a series of videos to celebrate the opening of the fifteenth Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones previews SelgasCano's colourful structure ahead of its opening next week. More about Exclusive video preview of SelgasCano's 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
This social housing development in Zingem, Belgium, responds to its location between a busy road and an agrarian landscape with a "ranch-like" arrangement of buildings framing a central courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Volt Architecten's Belgian housing scheme is designed to look like a farmstead
This brick maisonette in London's Primrose Hill has been modernised with a plywood-clad circulation tower and an elevated terrace overlooking Regent's Park (+ slideshow). More about Studio Gil adds stairwell extension to a Modernist home in Primrose Hill
Embedded in the garden of an English countryside cottage, this small studio with a green roof and patinated copper walls creates a secluded spot for deer-watching (+ slideshow). More about Copper-clad studio by Stonewood Design is also a hide for wildlife watching
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to offer readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a talk with Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA. More about Competition: win tickets to Kazuyo Sejima's talk at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Coop Himmelb(l)au founder Wolf D Prix explains how the design of his House of Music concert hall in Denmark was influenced by a monastery by Le Corbusier in this movie by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. More about House of Music represents a "very simple but powerful typology" says Wolf D Prix
Opinion: a reactionary government policy from 1899 has turned Washington DC into a city of low buildings, expensive floor space and rampant inequality. A few skyscrapers could change all that, says Matthew Yglesias, executive editor of Vox. More about "Washington DC's aversion to skyscrapers has turned it into an American Versailles"
New construction images show this year's colourful Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano, which is rapidly nearing completion ahead of its opening next week (+ slideshow). More about SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion nears completion
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has completed a 30,000-square-metre library in Aarhus, Denmark, with a faceted metal-clad volume on top and a new train station underneath (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen completes Scandinavia's largest library
Chinese architecture office MAD has unveiled designs for a residential project resembling a hilltop village for Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. More about MAD designs hilltop village for Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has been commissioned to design a luxury condominium tower in New York City – his first American project. More about Álvaro Siza's first US project to be a luxury residential tower in Manhattan
Colourfully painted window shutters form the facade and roof of this guest house and kitchen in Ho Chi Minh City, designed by local studio Block Architects (+ slideshow). More about Facade of colourful shutters allows light and wind into Block Architects' Vegan House
Design Miami/Basel 2015: this inhabitable sculpture by Dutch studio Atelier van Lieshout is a cross between a luxury lounge and a primitive dwelling (+ slideshow). More about Atelier van Lieshout sculpts a hybrid cave dwelling and pool house
This Vietnam community centre by architecture studio 1+2>3 features bamboo roofs thatched with coconut leaves, which pitch inwards to direct rainwater towards a series of planted courtyards (+ slideshow). More about Cam Thanh Community House in Vietnam features thatched roofing and secluded courtyards
This glazed house-shaped gallery sits within an old barn in a English village without appearing to touch the floor, the thick stone walls or the timber-truss roof (+ slideshow). More about Private art gallery by Stonewood Design cantilevers into a 17th-century Cotswolds barn
Work has begun on the new "School of Genius" campus in New York City, which aims to boost the city's burgeoning tech industry (+ slideshow). More about New York's Cornell Tech campus will include buildings by Morphosis and Weiss/Manfredi
Architect Richard Rogers has urged the architectural community to support the preservation of the Brutalist Robin Hood Gardens estate, which he has described as post-war Britain's most important social housing development. More about Richard Rogers calls for architects to help save "exceptional" Robin Hood Gardens
The sheltered entrance to this craggy school canteen building in France is fronted with a "forest" of slender white columns (+ slideshow). More about Le Roc Canteen by D'Houndt+Bajart is designed as a cross between a treehouse and a cave
London Festival of Architecture 2015: four architecture studios from Ireland have come together to create colourful pavilions for this year's London Festival of Architecture – a red one containing an elevated passageway and a yellow one housing a library of bricks (+ slideshow). More about Architects from Dublin and Belfast install red and yellow pavilions at London's King's Cross