Architecture studio DeDraft has updated a semi-detached house in east London, wrapping a three-storey rear extension in weathering steel and introducing large windows that look out onto the garden. More about DeDraft expands east London house with weathering-steel extension
This week on Dezeen, architect Michele De Lucchi reinterpreted Hogwarts castle and other locations in the Harry Potter story in a contemporary architectural language for the covers of the books in Italy. More about This week Harry Potter locations were redesigned as contemporary buildings
Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has carved a barrel-vaulted tunnel through a brick home in Toronto designed to evoke the architecture of ancient Rome. More about Vaulted tunnel runs through brick house by Batay-Csorba Architects
A folded concrete roof designed by Studio Gang is now in place at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, which is currently being overhauled by the studio. More about Studio Gang reveals folded concrete roof of Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Researchers at Purdue University have developed an "ultra-white" paint that reflects 98 per cent of sunlight and deflects infrared heat, allowing buildings to cool below the surrounding air temperature. More about "Whitest paint on record" reflects 98 per cent of sunlight to cool buildings
Santiago-based studio 2DM Arquitectos has built a holiday home overlooking the Pacific Ocean that has a cantilevered upper floor to take advantage of the views. More about 2DM Arquitectos creates angular holiday cabin on Chilean coast
Porto-based DepA Architects has extended and renovated a traditional Portuguese home, streamlining its floor plan and adding a material and colour palette informed by its original design. More about DepA Architects clads traditional Portuguese house in sage-green tiles
Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has revealed its design for an office in St Petersburg, Russia, which will contain an atrium that rises diagonally through the building. More about UNStudio bisects St Petersburg office with zigzagging atrium
Office pods that could replace parked cars and a conceptual technology that brings nature into the home are among the three finalists of the inaugural Davidson Prize. More about Three designs to improve remote working named as Davidson Prize finalists
Long Studio is a barn-style architects' studio and home office in Maine, built by and for architecture office 30X40 Design Workshop. More about Maine studio 30X40 Design Workshop builds own home office
New York firm SO-IL has completed this low rise yet high-density affordable housing development in León, Mexico, with apartments arranged around courtyards. More about SO-IL builds Las Americas affordable housing development in Mexico
Siege engines and market halls informed the design of the Auckland Tower, a larch entrance building and viewpoint that Niall McLaughlin Architects has created for a castle in England. More about Niall McLaughlin Architects models castle entrance tower on siege engine
Continuing our collaboration with Dom Publishers, the editors of the Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide select architectural highlights from east Africa. More about Architecture highlights from east Africa include projects from Madagascar and Burundi
French studio Dominique Perrault Architecture and local architect Zhubo Design are set to design a university campus with a 700-metre-long building for the Shenzhen Institute of Design and Innovation. More about Dominique Perrault and Zhubo Design reveal plans for 700-metre-long university building in Shenzhen
Photographers Robert Rieger and Felix Brüggemann have released a book that pays homage to the recently closed Tegel Airport and captures its distinctive hexagonal terminal that once served as a bastion of freedom for walled-in West Berlin. More about Flughafen Tegel book bids farewell to Berlin's brutalist "drive-in airport"
Dezeen promotion: facade manufacturer Equitone has launched its archiTALK podcast, a conversation with some of Australia's most influential architects on subjects including social and sustainable architecture. More about Equitone ANZ launches archiTALK podcast
German studio 4a Architekten has renovated the 1950s buildings and outdoor swimming pool at the historic Bad Berg mineral baths in central Stuttgart. More about 4a Architekten revamps Stuttgart's oldest mineral baths
Architecture firms Rosan Bosch Studio and IDOM have developed a school for a campus in Lima, Peru, in which teaching will take place in both indoor and outdoor classrooms. More about Outdoor classrooms to play key role in "pandemic-proof" school in Peru
Architecture studios Diller Scofidio + Renfro, PLP Architecture and Carlo Ratti Associati have revealed plans to convert a goods yard in Milan into a park and the athletes' village for the upcoming Winter Olympic Games. More about Disused railway yard in Milan set to become park and Olympic athletes' village
The organisers of national pavilions of the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale are planning to open without guests next month due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. More about Venice Architecture Biennale pavilions set to hold "silent openings" without visitors