World Architecture Festival 2014: in this exclusive video interview Vietnamese architect Toan Nghiem discusses the use of bright colours in The Chapel, the community centre that was crowned World Building of the Year 2014 earlier this month (+ movie). More about The Chapel by a21studio is like "a big colourful lantern"
News: The Rom Skatepark in east London has become the first European facility of its kind to be awarded protected status (+ slideshow). More about London's The Rom becomes first listed skatepark in Europe
London office Peter Barber Architects has remodelled a Victorian sheltered housing scheme in the city, employing different types of brick and render to indicate where new additions meet the original buildings. More about Peter Barber uses a "collage of materials" in hostel for homeless people
The street-facing elevation of this brick and steel extension to a 1920s Montreal property echoes the proportions of the original building, but at the rear a large angular outcrop projects over the back garden (+ slideshow). More about Steel cladding frames an offset window at Montreal house extension by Naturehumaine
Belgian studio B-ILD has converted a wartime bunker into an austere holiday home where guests sleep beside raw concrete walls and home comforts are reduced to the bare essentials (+ slideshow). More about Concrete bunker in the Netherlands transformed into a tiny vacation home
The walls of this house in Poland by Kropka Studio are covered in gabion baskets filled with the same local limestone used to build nearby castles and churches (+ slideshow). More about House in the Landscape by Kropka Studio features walls built from rock-filled cages
A glazed wall framed by thick concrete fronts this house built into a grassy hillside in Penafiel, Portugal, by architecture office Spaceworkers (+ slideshow). More about Casa de Sambade by Spaceworkers is a long house with textured concrete walls
A folded timber roof adds drama to the interior of this school swimming pool in Buckinghamshire, England, by Duggan Morris Architects, but also helps to prevent echoes (+ slideshow). More about Angular wooden roof reduces sound reverberation inside swimming pool by Duggan Morris
News: Chicago-based Studio Gang is following in the footsteps of OMA, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid by becoming the latest architect to design a residential building for Miami (+ slideshow). More about Studio Gang joins rising tide of architects building in Miami
Spanish studio MX_SI added vertical wooden mullions to the exterior of this museum extension in Mänttä, Finland, to evoke the trunks of trees in the surrounding park (+ slideshow). More about MX_SI's addition to the Serlachius Museum Gösta has a stripy facade based on an "abstract forest"
OFIS Arhitekti has completed a bulbous, spotty stadium for Belarusian football club FC BATE Borisov (+ slideshow). More about OFIS Arhitekti completes bulging stadium for FC BATE Borisov
A crumpled white shell patterned with tiny perforations wraps around this cluster of small-scale buildings by French studio RH+ that form a children's centre in Paris (+ slideshow). More about RH+ creates daycare centre with a crumpled facade
The mirrored roof of this children's care centre by SATA reflects the surrounding treetops and west Ireland skies (+ slideshow). More about SATA's medical centre has mirrored "cloaking" roof that reflects the sky
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: cities in the future will exist in both a physical and digital form says William Trossell of 3D-scanning company ScanLAB, who claims the lines between the two "will become increasingly blurred" (+ movie). More about The city of the future "will be both physical and digital"
A flurry of projects by well-known architects have recently completed in Paris, including an installation by Sou Fujimoto and Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton, so we've put together a Pinterest board exploring the city's best buildings.
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This small house in the French city of Tours by local architecture office Atelier 100architecture features a material palette of zinc panels, plaster and wooden boards that references its historical neighbours. More about Atelier 100architecture slots contemporary house into French medieval city centre
Waist-high partitions divide up the top floor of this mostly windowless house in Japan, framing different activities without cutting off light to any of the spaces (+ slideshow). More about Katsutoshi Sasaki's House in Hanekita contains a grid of half-height walls
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The two main buildings of this Portuguese holiday complex by I-da Arquitectos are dug into a hillside, partly burying them in the sloping terrain (+ slideshow). More about I-da Arquitectos sinks holiday apartments into the Portuguese countryside
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: advances in 3D-scanning technology could enable virtual tourism by providing a "life-like experience" of faraway places says architect Pernilla Ohrstedt (+ movie). More about Future tourists could "travel the virtual world instead of the physical"
Barber and Osgerby's architecture firm Universal Design Studio has completed a gallery for London's Science Museum dedicated to communications technology (+ slideshow). More about Barber and Osgerby's Science Museum gallery is their "most important" architecture project