Architects Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa have won a competition to reuse a former prison in Talca, Chile, as a public space and arena. More about Espacio Talca by Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa
Shanghai Expo 2010: Dezeen reader Chaz Hutton snuck into the Shanghai Expo 2010, due to open this weekend. Here are his photographs of a selection of the pavilions. More about Shanghai Expo 2010 pavilions
In this Dezeen podcast for the Design Museum architect David Adjaye talks to curator Gemma Curtin about Urban Africa, an exhibition of his photographs on show at the museum in London. More about Dezeen podcast: David Adjaye at the Design Museum
Mexican studio TEN Arquitectos have recently completed a laboratory for studying genomics in Irapuato, Mexico. More about National Laboratory of Genomics by TEN Arquitectos
Shanghai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us another update from Shanghai Expo 2010; this time the German Pavilion designed by architects Schmidhuber + Kaindl. More about German Pavilion by Schmidhuber + Kaindl
Visualisation artist, architect and designer Áron Lõrincz has sent us a short movie that takes a real communist-era tower block in Budapest and imagines it extruded beyond our atmosphere. More about Theoretical Block by Áron Lõrincz
Construction is underway in Jena, Germany, on four office and residential buildings by Berlin studio J Mayer H Architects. More about Sonnenhof by J Mayer H
Shanghai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre is at Shanghai Expo 2010 this week and will be sending us some of the first photos of the completed pavilions, starting with the Spanish Pavilion by Miralles Tagliabue (EMBT). More about Spanish Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by EMBT
Eindhoven studio DHV Architecten have completed a laboratory for nanotechnology in Delft, the Netherlands. More about Van Leeuwenhoek Laboratory by DHV Architecten
Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos have designed a home in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, where four roofs slope up from the forest floor. More about Peña Blanca by DCPP Arquitectos
Czech architects Chalupa Architekti have won a competition to design the new Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC, USA. More about Embassy of the Czech Republic by Chalupa Architekti
New York firm REX have completed two office buildings in Istanbul, Turkey, where one is built inside the other. More about Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Centre by REX
Here are some images of a visitors centre with walkways built through and around a castle in Fundão, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Comoco Architects. More about Castelo Novo by Comoco Architects
As part of a waterfront development for Oslo called Bjørvika Barcode, Norwegian architects A-Lab have designed an office and residential building with a covered garden punched through the middle. More about DnB NOR Headquarters by A-Lab
Argentinian studio Andrés Remy Arquitectos have completed a house in Pilar, Buenos Aires, consisting of volumes stacked at sloping angles. More about Casa Orquidea by Andrés Remy Architects
New York studio Axis Mundi have designed a house for a mountainside in Montana, USA, which incorporates a 60 foot internal bridge More about Ark House by Axis Mundi
Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of an office building for technology companies in Almada, Portugal, by architects Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas. More about Madan Parque by Samuel Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas
Riddel Architecture of Queensland demolished a house in Brisbane, Australia, and then built a new home out of the salvaged materials. More about Hill End Ecohouse by Riddel Architecture
Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us his photographs of the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia by Peter Eisenman, nearing completion in Galicia, Spain. More about Cidade da Cultura de Galicia by Peter Eisenman
Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us these photographs of the recently-opened car park in Miami by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. More about 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron