Stories by Amy Frearson
AOR’s floating Viewpoint offers glimpses of London’s canal-side wildlife
Mexican library renovation by Taller 6A features bookshop covered in boxes
Périphériques upgrades Paris plot with contrasting apartment blocks and a colourful kindergarten
Hilltop staircase by NEXT Architects creates the illusion of an endless walkway
Von M modernises three apartments inside a Stuttgart apartment block
Yang Zhao completes fishermen’s pavilion for Toyo Ito’s post-tsunami reconstruction project
Seven-metre doors reveal a courtyard inside TACHA_Design’s Baan Yo Yen house
Concrete house by Langarita-Navarro photographed as a crime scene
Olson Kundig and Jack Daws imagine a house on stilts above a polluted lake
Central America’s largest museum of Mayan culture to be built in Guatemala
Rowing facility by Álvaro Fernandes Andrade snakes across a landscape of underground dorms
Zaha Hadid designs apartment for Ronald McDonald charity house
Prefabricated modular home by MAPA delivered to the Brazilian countryside
Sochi Winter Olympics commence inside Populous-designed stadium
OMA follows up Kunsthal art robbery with major security and layout improvements
Stockholm bridge transformation by Visiondivision to include a sheltered promenade and cinema
Frank Gehry designs Berlin’s tallest skyscraper
Micro house by Yasutaka Yoshimura slotted between two huge windows
Architecture photography award-winners go on show in London
Garden Mausoleum by HGA features rough granite, white marble and gleaming onyx
Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo built their Four Seasons House in an idyllic meadow
Cedar-clad villa by Naka Studio shelters a huge terrace beneath its roof