London cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows
A spiral cafe with a rooftop garden in Chelsea, London, by architecture studio NEX has curved windows that can retract fully when the weather is good. More
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Steven Holl dismisses concerns over new Long Island City library as "wrinkles"
Steven Holl Architects has brushed off criticisms of its Hunters Point library in Long Island City, which opened in September with a number of areas inaccessible to people with disabilities. More
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Heatherwick Studio's Pier 55 renamed Little Island
Thomas Heatherwick's Pier 55 park within New York's Hudson River has been renamed Little Island, as visuals and a video detailing the project's construction are released. More
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Heatherwick Studio reveals 1,000 Trees nearing completion in Shanghai
Heatherwick Studio has released photography of its plant-covered 1,000 Trees development in Shanghai, which has had its scaffolding removed. More
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Round windows of Archery House echo shooting range targets
A wooden shutter slides to uncover the target-shaped window of a brick building in France by architects Boman that provides facilities for an archery range. More
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Dorte Mandrup's Arctic whale watching facility will "grow out of the landscape"
Dorte Mandrup has released visuals of The Whale, a viewpoint for whale watching that will resemble a giant rock outcrop within the Arctic Circle on the northern coast of Norway. More
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BIG completes yin-and-yang-shaped Panda House at Copenhagen Zoo
BIG has completed a circular enclosure at a zoo in Denmark to house two giant pandas that have been relocated from Chengdu, China. More
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Chybik + Kristof builds Prague food market in shiny metal cabins
A temporary cluster of corrugated metal-covered units surround a shallow pool at Manifesto Market in Prague's historic Smichov district, designed by architects Chybik + Kristof. More
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Enota encloses pool in Slovenia with geometric roof
Ljubljana-based studio Enota has replaced an outdoor swimming pool with a pool covered in a rugged landscape of geometric, funnel-like roof structures at the Terme Olimia Spa in Slovenia. More
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Nike paints Los Angeles running track in pride flag colours
Running lanes of a refurbished track at Los Angeles City College are each painted a colour of the rainbow pride flag to advocate for the equality and inclusivity of LGBT+ athletes. More
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Rocco Design Architects creates skyscraper church in Hong Kong
Wesleyan House Methodist International Church is a 21-storey high-rise church in Hong Kong, topped with a Sky Chapel with views across the city and its harbour. More
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Artist and architect convert backgarden shed into Los Angeles pottery showroom
Ceramicist Raina Lee has made a showroom for pottery with her partner, architect Mark Watanabe, inside a stilted shed in the backyard of their home in Los Angeles. More
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Foster + Partners completes Philadelphia's tallest building
Foster + Partners' Comcast Technology Center skyscraper in Philadelphia contains "Silicon Valley-style" work spaces topped with a 12-storey Four Seasons hotel. More
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All-black sauna embedded in Stockholm's rocky island frames sea views
Architect Matteo Foresti has designed a sauna set into the rocks of an island within the Stockholm archipelago that's lined with dark oak and black stone. More
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Green wall cascades down K11 Musea shopping centre in Hong Kong
K11 Musea is a shopping centre on the Tsim Sha Tsui harbour-front in Hong Kong, designed by an architecture team led by Kohn Pedersen Fox. More
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Brick arcade by MMX revitalises earthquake-hit public square in Mexico
Brick archways fold around this public square in Jojutla, Mexico, which architecture studio MMX has redeveloped after it was left devastated following the country's deadly 2017 earthquake. More
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"Attempts to stop terrorism at the fringes of architecture are becoming increasingly useless"
Architects and designers can't design ways to protect mass terror attacks in America's public spaces, but they should join the fight to eliminate the problem at its cause, argues Aaron Betsky. More
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Invisible Studio builds giant window in Somerset hotel garden
Invisible Studio has built a gymnasium for a hotel in Somerset, which is designed as one giant window so that the building has a minimal impact on its garden setting. More
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Paulien Bremmer wraps "social hub" for Gerrit Rietveld Academie in woven-steel screens
Folding screens of woven steel surround the upper level of the latest building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which provides three storeys of exhibition, workshop and teaching spaces. More
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Day-VII Architecture highlights the variety of Polish communist-era churches
The 3,000 hugely varied churches built in Poland between 1945 and 1989 were often created as a rejection of communist authority. Kuba Snopek, co-author of Day-VII Architecture, picks five of the most intriguing. More
