Awarding the Pritzker Prize to little-known RCR Arquitectes is a quiet rebuke against the superficiality and greed that has dominated architectural culture around the world, says Catherine Slessor in this Opinion column. More about "RCR's work is under the radar, yet it is stealthily evolving in scale and ambition"
A bright white canopy undulates above the glazed walls of this chapel outside Cape Town, framing views right through it to scenic mountains, vineyards and pomegranate orchards. More about Steyn Studio's chapel frames dramatic views of South African countryside below its sinuous roof
Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architect has created a remote vacation home in Nova Scotia for an urban couple, with floor-to-ceiling windows that provide sweeping views of the sea. More about Omar Gandhi Architect perches glass-walled cabin on rocky cliff in Nova Scotia
Models were disguised within oversized forms made from layers of wadding at this season's Comme des Garçons Autumn Winter 2017 show during Paris Fashion Week. More about Comme des Garçons creates bulbous, armless figures in The Future of Silhouette
The fiddly ritual of assembling IKEA furniture is set to become a thing of the past as the furniture giant introduces products that snap together "like a jigsaw puzzle". More about IKEA switches to furniture that snaps together in minutes without requiring tools
Danish office Dissing + Weitling Architecture has completed an elevated cycling path in Chinese city Xiamen, which the architects claim is the longest of its kind in the world. More about Dissing + Weitling completes "world's longest" elevated cycling path in China
A colonnade, a group of light wells and perforated brickwork allow light and air to reach the prayer hall of this mosque in Dhaka, which is one of winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016. More about Daylight filters in through the roof and walls of Bangladeshi mosque by Marina Tabassum
A science-fiction staple has inched closer to reality with the reveal of a prototype in-ear wearable that translates languages almost instantly. More about Waverly Labs' Pilot earpiece promises to translate languages in real time
The site for this residence in the Canadian Rocky Mountains was chosen by Cutler Anderson Architects for its craggy topography, which the designers used to frame the house. More about Cutler Anderson Architects tucks Canadian home between rocky outcrops
A dining table surrounded by cartoon-like chairs features in the latest exhibition at New York gallery Chamber, which opened last night without its founder after he was denied entry into the US. More about Cartoon furniture among unconventional domestic items on show at New York's Chamber gallery
Accessories brand Ally Capellino has released a range of colourful bags based on plastic chairs, which have been shot inside Ernö Goldfinger's Haggerston School. More about Ally Capellino looks to colourful plastic chairs for Spring Summer 2017 bag collection
Google has presented the latest designs for its new Mountain View office campus, designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio, ahead of a public hearing next week. More about Google reveals latest designs by BIG and Heatherwick for new California HQ
Naming your studio after the directors' surnames is so last century. Today's architects go under weird and wonderful monikers such as Design, Bitches, 5468796 Architecture and G///bang. We asked some of the most oddly named studios how they got their names. More about 10 architecture studios reveal the stories behind their bizarre names
Architects Tamar Jacobs and Oshri Yaniv have built their own home on the Israeli coast, with its roof lifted up above concrete-block walls to offer glimpses of the sky. More about Israeli architect couple use concrete blocks to build themselves a home among fruit trees
The Frank Lloyd Wright Revival Initiative plans to resurrect the architect's demolished or unbuilt projects, starting with a pavilion in Banff, Canada. More about Frank Lloyd Wright's lost buildings could be brought back to life
Fish, clothing, architecture and bicycles come with embedded screens in the future imagined by British digital design studio Universal Everything. More about Universal Everything explores potential to turn 13 everyday objects into screens
An exhibition exploring the journey from maker to market in Norway is set to take place during this year's Milan design week. More about Everything Is Connected brings work of 30 young Norwegian designers to Milan
With the news that little-known Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes has won this year's Pritzker Prize, here's a look at some of the firm's most important projects. More about Key projects by Pritzker Prize 2017 winner RCR Arquitectes
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of Spanish studio RCR Arquitectes have been named as the 2017 laureates of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. More about RCR Arquitectes wins Pritzker Prize 2017
The Shakers are on the verge of extinction following the recent death of one of the sect's three surviving members. So why is their austere style having yet another revival? More about Shaker style is back again as designers celebrate "the first minimalists"