Mexico and the US celebrate Cinco de Mayo today, commemorating the Mexican Army's victory over the French in 1862. To mark the occasion, we've pulled together five of the country's best contemporary museum buildings, including projects by Toyo Ito and David Chipperfield. More about Five of Mexico's best new museum buildings
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has revealed designs for a trio of new buildings at the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler art gallery in Riehen, Basel. More about Peter Zumthor unveils extension plans for Renzo Piano's Fondation Beyeler in Basel
Two timber-clad villas – one dark and the other silvery grey – balance over a steep hillside on the Swedish island of Lidingö, in these intricately rendered visuals of the project by Ström Architects. More about Ström Architects reveals hyper-realistic renderings for pair of Swedish island villas
Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled a prefabricated cabin with a twisted roof that offers protection in harsh weather conditions. More about Snøhetta's prefab Gapahuk cabin references a traditional Norwegian mountain shelter
This metal-clad rural dwelling in the American West by Rowland + Broughton is designed to tread lightly on the earth and to provide expansive views of the landscape. More about Rowland + Broughton nestles rectilinear Black Magic house into mountainous Colorado site
Australian studio Double Days has created a publicly editable directory of women in design that can be used by conference organisers to source female speakers for panel discussions. More about Directory of female creatives aims to tackle the "stone-aged" under-representation of women in design
White Arkitekter has completed a bathhouse on the southern coast of Sweden, featuring a timber-clad structure perched on slender legs that extend outwards towards the rear to optimise sea views. More about White Arkitekter's pared-back bathhouse reinterprets Sweden's traditional "gingerbread" architecture
Drones will transform the way buildings are designed, the way they look and the way they are used, according to architect Mark Dytham. More about Drones will bring "profound change" to architecture and cities, says Mark Dytham
Spanish designer Jaime Hayon explains how traditional marquetry techniques informed his Stone Age Folk pavilion in this movie Dezeen filmed for Caesarstone during Milan design week. More about Jaime Hayon combines Caesarstone with stained glass to create colourful Stone Age Folk pavilion
A sunken bed and folding ping-pong table feature in this studio converted from a derelict garden shed for a pair of artists in west London. More about Silver & Co transforms London garden shed into multifunctional studio for artist couple
Architecture studio Gimeno + Guitart has completed a church and parish centre in Tarragona, Spain, featuring concrete walls patterned with angular etchings. More about Gimeno + Guitart creates chevron-patterned concrete for church of Santa Maria Assumpta
During the renovation of an 18th-century home in Upstate New York, Manhattan-based Messana O'Rorke Architects has revitalised its original appearance and added modern conveniences in an extension clad in Corten steel. More about Messana O'Rorke Architects extends New York homestead with weathering-steel annex
The first images and models of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' plans for the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago have been revealed. More about Obama Presidential Library concept design unveiled in Chicago
Perforated metal surfaces form a white "veil" around the main hall of this chapel designed by Neri&Hu for a hotel complex near the Chinese city of Suzhou. More about Neri&Hu's Suzhou Chapel combines textured brick base with ethereal white cube
Angled concrete surfaces collide to form the facades of this guesthouse by South Korean studio IDMM Architects and Heesoo Kwak, which features sections that thrust out towards the nearby Bukhan River. More about Cantilevered concrete volumes provide river and mountain views at Guesthouse Rivendell
Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has stacked offset volumes that contain a hotel and office spaces to form a tower in Guadalajara. More about Angled louvres shade glass skyscraper in Guadalajara by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Elon Musk has revealed a plan for easing city congestion that would see an underground network of tunnels transporting cars on high-speed skates travelling at 130 miles per hour. More about Elon Musk's Boring Company plans to beat traffic with underground "car skates"
Over the last few months we've been publishing short movies about shape-shifting architecture on our Facebook page. Here are 10 of the best, including projects with sliding walls, kinetic facades and rotating rooms. More about 10 movies featuring buildings that move or change shape
Vito Acconci, whose provocative works range from an artificial island to a performance that involved masturbation, has died aged 77. More about "Subversive, shocking and truly unique" artist and architect Vito Acconci dies
US firm Andersson-Wise Architects has created a modest boathouse in Texas, designed to blend with its site as if it were "in a state of natural decomposition". More about Andersson-Wise assembles new and salvaged materials into rustic Austin boathouse