News: Steven Holl has been appointed to rework the campus of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and will add new buildings to offer a "complementary contrast" to structures by Mies van der Rohe and Rafael Moneo. More about Houston's Museum of Fine Arts unveils campus redesign by Steven Holl
News: architecture firm Snøhetta has been named winner in a competition to design the new Paris headquarters for French newspaper Le Monde. More about Snøhetta commissioned for Le Monde headquarters in Paris
News: a chapel originally designed by Antoni Gaudí for the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is set to be constructed in Chile, 90 years after the Catalan architect's death. More about Chilean chapel will become Gaudí's first project outside Spain
News: Japanese design studio Nendo has been awarded the Designer of the Year title for this year's Maison&Objet and will create a "chocolate lounge" at the Paris trade fair. More about Nendo named Designer of the Year for Maison&Objet 2015
News: Google has unveiled a new prototype of its modular smartphone with swappable components, which the project's design head Gadi Amit says will allow users to "be the designer of their own phone" (+ slideshow). More about Google takes next step towards Project Ara modular phone launch
News: French architect Jean Nouvel has issued a statement saying he will not attend the opening of his Philharmonie de Paris this evening, claiming it is "not finished" and defending his firm against allegations regarding cost overruns. More about Jean Nouvel boycotts opening of his Paris concert hall
News: a decade after the final beam was placed atop the Norman Foster-designed Hearst Tower in New York, the architect has returned to the building to mark its anniversary with a film captured using a drone (+ movie). More about Norman Foster narrates drone tour of New York's Hearst skyscraper
News: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects – the firm behind the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower and the Statue of Liberty restoration – has filed for bankruptcy, claiming that it is owed $2 million dollars by a Russian client. More about Century-old architecture firm Swanke Hayden Connell files for bankruptcy
News: Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Building has lost its third steel bolt in three months, developer British Land has revealed. More about Third bolt fractures on Richard Rogers' Cheesegrater skyscraper
News: American car manufacturer Ford has unveiled its new GT concept at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, signalling the company's return to designing race-ready supercars (+ slideshow). More about Ford launches first new GT supercar design in a decade
News: Herzog & de Meuron's severely delayed concert hall for the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie finally has an opening date set for 2017, but its price tag is now more than 10 times the original estimate. More about Completion in sight for Herzog & de Meuron's £617-million Elbphilharmonie concert hall
News: the creative industries are now worth £76.9 billion per year to the UK, with the design sector enjoying the biggest growth. More about Creative industries in the UK generate £8.8 million per hour
News: a chart-busting 97 skyscrapers over 200 metres tall were completed in 2014 – and a record-breaking 58 of them are in China, according to the latest industry review. More about Skyscraper surge makes 2014 the "tallest year ever"
News: an appeals court has blocked the SANAA-designed renovation of iconic former department store La Samaritaine in Paris, which includes a wavy glass facade that critics have compared to a shower curtain. More about French court revokes planning permission for SANAA's La Samaritaine revival
News: the viewing terraces opened today at the top of Rafael Viñoly's so-called Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London, pictured in these exclusive images by photographer Edmund Sumner (+ slideshow). More about Sky Garden opens at the top of Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie
News: a team led by 64North Architecture has won a competition to design a pedestrian and cyclist bridge connecting the San Francisco Bay waterfront and Palo Alto – home to some of the world's leading technology companies. More about Palo Alto footbridge will span the 14 lanes of San Francisco's 101 freeway
News: disgraced fashion designer John Galliano has made his catwalk comeback with his inaugural haute-couture collection for Paris house Maison Martin Margiela. More about John Galliano returns to fashion with Margiela couture collection
News: Ole Bouman, former head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, has been named as the director of a major new design museum developed in collaboration with the V&A in Shekou, Shenzhen. More about Ole Bouman named as director of V&A-backed design museum in China
News: the American Institute of Architects has announced 23 winners for the 2015 edition of its annual awards, including a visitor centre for the Wild Turkey Bourbon distillery, a cube-shaped courthouse and BIG's subterranean maritime museum in Denmark (+ slideshow). More about 2015 AIA Institute Honor Awards winners announced
News: Foster + Partners has been given the title "most admired architect" for the ninth consecutive year, in a global survey of architecture firms. More about Foster + Partners named world's most admired architect for ninth year in a row