The Brazilian president has moved out of his official residence in Brasília, designed by the late architect Oscar Niemeyer, after sensing "bad energy" and fearing it could be haunted. More about Brazil's president flees "ghosts" at his Oscar Niemeyer-designed home
Big windows replace the rear wall of a 20th-century house in Rotterdam, which has been overhauled by Shift Architecture Urbanism to create two light-filled apartments. More about Shift exchanges brickwork for glazing to create bright apartments in Rotterdam townhouse
Architect José Almeida has partially demolished a late 19th-century property in northern Portugal, and used the rubble to create holiday accommodation where guests can bathe in a former wine press. More about José Almeida transforms stone villa in rural Portugal into holiday house
At this year's SXSW festival, an Austin-based startup has launched sales for its prefabricated tiny house equipped with systems controlled by a mobile app. More about Kasita launches sales of high-tech micro dwellings at SXSW
British architect Norman Foster is providing a rare insight into his personal life with his new official Instagram account, which he set up to debunk imposters. More about Norman Foster joins Instagram and shares candid snaps and ski-race times
OMA has completed an events centre on a former shipyard in Shanghai, which features a mesh facade and an exposed steel structure intended to reference the hulls of boats once built there. More about OMA completes industrial-style exhibition centre in old Shanghai shipyard
A+Awards: this year's Pritzker Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes is behind this steel-clad museum in France, which also earned the Catalan firm an Architizer A+Award. More about RCR Arquitectes forms Soulages Museum from linked weathering-steel boxes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken the number one spot as world's leading architecture school for the third year running, according to new global rankings. More about MIT named world's top architecture school for third year
Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit projects to this year's Iconic Awards, with winners being announced in a ceremony at Coop Himmelb(l)au's BMW Welt. More about Call for entries to Iconic Awards' international architecture and design competition
Two tiers of glazing sweep around a stout olive tree in the back garden of this Rotterdam residence by MVRDV, contrasting with the almost windowless brick walls that face the street and neighbouring houses. More about MVRDV wraps Rotterdam house around a mature olive tree
Straight walls are in short supply at this house in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, which curls around the edges of a curving cobbled courtyard. More about House L27 by dIONISO LAB is arranged around a curving courtyard in northern Portugal
Architect Rob Hootsmans has renovated a 1970s courthouse in the Dutch city of Zwolle and added a "transparent and approachable" extension featuring sawtoothed glass facades. More about Rob Hootsmans adds serrated glass extension to stone-clad Dutch courthouse
These photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li show the monumental form of IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art, eight years after the building completed in Doha, Qatar. More about IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art captured in new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li
This robust concrete house in the Swiss town of Savièse steps down the side of a hill and contains rooms lining internal patios that look out towards the nearby mountains. More about Anako Architecture completes "fortress-like" concrete house in an Alpine town
Spanish designer Marta Colmenero has created a set of illustrations that capture the concrete forms of brutalist architecture across the globe. More about Marta Colmenero illustrates brutalist landmarks around the world
This stone villa in Arizona by Los Angeles architect Marwan Al-Sayed was conceived as a succession of interior and exterior spaces that are organised around a central courtyard. More about Limestone walls define sequence of courtyards at Arizona desert home by Marwan Al-Sayed
Dutch studios NL Architects and XVW Architectuur have renovated one of the largest apartment buildings in the Netherlands, restoring the repetitive gridded facades of the 1960s block but leaving the flats bare for residents to customise. More about Colossal Amsterdam housing block brought up to date with customisable apartments
A spiralling steel staircase connects the living spaces inside this timber and glass extension to a semi-detached property in Hackney, north London. More about Steel-wrapped staircase winds through Hackney extension by Cousins & Cousins
American studio Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture + Design has created a light-coloured micro dwelling with cut-out corners and a sloped roof, aiming to demonstrate that a "small house need not be a claustrophobic, monotonous box". More about Elizabeth Herrmann creates tiny house for artist in Vermont
Design studio Bureau Spectacular has turned its drawings of bizarre buildings into models for an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. More about Bureau Spectacular shows fantastical architectural models at SFMOMA