News: construction has begun on Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group's skyscraper at 15 Hudson Yards – the first residential tower in New York's new city quarter on stilts. More about First residential tower underway at Hudson Yards
News: New York architect Steven Holl has seen off competition from 104 applicants including Zaha Hadid, OMA and Amanda Levete, to design a new wing for the Mumbai City Museum. More about Steven Holl to design new wing for Mumbai City Museum
News: Zaha Hadid has hit back at the Japanese architects criticising her Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium design, describing them as "hypocrites". More about Zaha Hadid says Tokyo stadium criticism is "embarrassing" for Japanese architects
News: not content with progress on Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge, London is planning a second new pedestrian bridge near the Battersea Power Station development. More about London launches design competition for another new Thames bridge
News: work has begun on architect Moshe Safdie's Jewel Changi Airport, which aims to "reinvent what airports are all about" by creating a shared public space under a glass dome with a massive waterfall and garden at its centre. More about Moshe Safdie's huge greenhouse for Singapore's Changi airport gets underway
News: the American design scene is enjoying a resurgence, according to Design Miami executive director Rodman Primack, who has used this year's fair to showcase talent from the USA. More about American design is "very strong" says Design Miami director
News: Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano have been selected to design the 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens. More about Madrid-based SelgasCano to design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2015
News: graduate designs for an industrial landscape overlaid with scenes from Winnie-the-Pooh and a bathhouse set into a volcanic quarry are the big winners at the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards this evening. More about RIBA reveals student medal winners for 2014
News: figures released this week reveal that One World Trade Center is now the most expensive skyscraper of all time, having cost more than twice as much as the world's tallest building. More about One World Trade Center is most costly skyscraper in history
News: Mexican architect Fernando Romero has unveiled his design for a Latin American art museum in Miami – the so-called "capital of Latin America" – during this week's Art Basel and Design Miami events (+ movie). More about Latin American Art Museum by Fernando Romero revealed for downtown Miami
News: Thomas Heatherwick's £175 million Garden Bridge proposal for London has been approved by Westminster Council amid claims it will be the "most expensive footbridge in the world". More about Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge given green light
News: the Guggenheim is just one of a string of art institutions expanding internationally with new architecture projects. The Helsinki competition represents part of its plans to "stop being an exporting institution, and instead be a collaborative one," according to director Richard Armstrong (+ interview). More about Guggenheim Helsinki: "We've got quite a lot to chew on"
News: one of London's leading universities, already home to the Bartlett School of Architecture, is set to open a school of design at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. More about University College London to open dedicated design school at the Olympic Park
News: after commissioning landmark museums by Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry in the 20th century, the Guggenheim has shortlisted six little-known practices for its latest outpost in Helsinki. More about Six emerging architects shortlisted for Guggenheim Helsinki design competition
News: Willy Wonka's glass elevator moves one step closer to reality with this new design for lifts that can move horizontally as well as vertically, and which promise to never make you wait longer than 30 seconds. More about Revolutionary elevator uses magnets to move sideways
News: Dundee, Bilbao, Curitiba, Helsinki and Turin have been awarded UNESCO City of Design status for their input to the international design industry. More about Five cities awarded UNESCO City of Design status
News: designs have been revealed for one of Zaha Hadid's smallest new structures – an advertising billboard for a stretch of road in west London that the architect says will "create a new genre in the roadside advertising canon". More about Zaha Hadid attempts to rethink roadside advertising with billboard design
News: BIG's competition-winning design for a new public square at London's Battersea Power Station has been revealed. More about Bjarke Ingels' public square for Battersea Power Station unveiled
News: a pair of 15-storey tower blocks in Shanghai have subsided so much that they now appear to be holding each other up – yet officials have deemed them "safe to live in" (+ slideshow). More about Leaning Shanghai towers declared "safe to live in" by inspectors
News: financial fiascos and political problems have caused 50 skyscrapers taller than 150 metres to be started and never finished, according to industry experts. More about Fifty of the world's tallest unfinished skyscrapers will "never complete"