Metal, wood and concrete were used to revamp a 1960s mixed-use building near Facebook's main campus and Stanford University, which houses a cafe at ground level and leasable office space up above. More
Fast-food chain McDonald's has replaced its iconic restaurant in Chicago with a building by Ross Barney Architects that is "unlike any in the company's portfolio". More
Tiered balconies clad in charred timber dowels enclose restaurants designed "in the round" to provide views across Sydney's redeveloped Barangaroo South precinct. More
Cantilevered metal roofs shade the glazed walls of this library designed by MLA+, which is connected by a treetop walkway to Shenzhen's Xiangmi Park. More
Mexican design studio All Arquitectura has created a vibrant football and basketball court for one of the poorest and most violent areas of Mexico City. More
Design, Bitches co-founders Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph explain their idea to create a park that brings different activities together in unusual ways in our latest P.O.D.System Architecture movie. More
Architecture studio MAD has created five installations inside the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel, a mountain viewpoint in Japan's Niigata Prefecture, including a lake framed by mirrors and a foot bath in a wooden dome. More
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' vast transit hub in downtown San Francisco will eventually connect 11 regional, state and national public transport modes, and is topped with a public park. More
The Space Needle observation tower in Seattle has reopened to the public following an extensive overhaul by American firm Olson Kundig Architects, which involved adding "the world's first and only revolving glass floor". More
Claudio Silvestrin Architects has completed a shopping outlet in Turin, Italy, that features a 111-metre-high "modern medieval spire". More
The Eysturkommuna Town Hall, designed by Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen, bridges across a river to physically and symbolically connect two formerly separate municipalities on the Faroe Islands. More
American studio Dynia Architects has completed a mixed-use building in Colorado's capital city featuring a bright red wall to catch the eye of passing train travellers. More
Construction has begun on a sinuous conference centre designed by MAD for the mountainous region of Yabuli in northeast China. More
An unassuming storefront in a small Nebraska town flips down to become a 100-seat theatre, which artist Matthew Mazzotta installed to reinvigorate the neglected main street. More
Architecture practice HW-Studio has ripped out an abandoned warehouse and replaced it with a series of all-white volumes to create this food market in a historic Mexican city. More
A skylight that runs along the ridge of this stables near the Chilean capital of Santiago allows daylight to flood onto laminated-timber trusses that support its curved ceiling. More
Plans to demolish the Wakefield Market Hall buildings in northern England, built by British architect David Adjaye just 10 years ago, have been approved. More
The works of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and artist Piet Mondrian influenced the geometric and pared-back design of this shop for fashion brand COS. More
Central Saint Martins graduates Fiona Hartley and Ellie Fox Johnson created blocky, brightly-hued outdoor furnishings for a public square in Croydon, designed to foster interaction among locals. More
London-based architects Denizen Works has submitted planning for a observation tower containing a vertical gallery and bird hide at Inverewe Garden in Scotland. More