A+Awards: the African armadillo influenced the curved, scale-covered form of this boutique safari lodge in Botswana – one of the winners at this year's Architizer A+Awards. More about Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge provides luxury getaway in remote African beauty spot
Plans for a new outpost of the Guggenheim museum in Helsinki have been thrown into doubt, as the Finnish government refuses funding for the Moreau Kusunoki Architectes-designed project. More about Guggenheim Helsinki in question after Finnish government refuses funding
Models by Japanese architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto are the focus of a museum that has opened in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Museum dedicated to architecture models opens in Japan
An angular thatched roof extends down over this seaside house, which references the grassy dune landscape of Latvia's Pape Nature Reserve (+ slideshow). More about Archispektras creates holiday home with a sculptural thatched roof on the Baltic Sea
A large corrugated metal roof is drawn down over the the upper floor of this house in Melbourne, making it appear to have just a single level when seen from the street (+ slideshow). More about OSK Architects hides a second storey beneath Seddon House's angular metal roof
Photo essay: German photographer Christian Richter has been breaking into abandoned buildings across Europe to capture their "swan song" for his Abandoned series (+ slideshow). More about Christian Richter's Abandoned series chronicles Europe's empty buildings
RooyDaad Architects created this monochrome house as a weekend retreat from their practice in Tehran, and based its design on a housing model by Le Corbusier (+ slideshow). More about Monochrome Iranian holiday home by RooyDaad Architects is dark outside and white inside
Portland studio Architecture Building Culture has created a gabled structure to accommodate more residents at a local communal home for single mothers (+ slideshow). More about Architecture Building Culture adds housing units to recovery centre in Portland
Riga studio Mailītis AIIM has used scaffolding poles, timber planks and corrugated plastic to create this events pavilion – one of three temporary structures built in the grounds of a former brewery in Latvia (+ slideshow). More about Mailītis AIIM builds scaffolding and timber pavilion at Latvian brewery
Hamburg studio Asdfg Architekten has converted a 19th-century miller's house in Berlin into a modern family home arranged around original brick walls (+ slideshow). More about Asdfg Architekten converts former miller's house into contemporary home
The Via 57 West "courtscraper" by Bjarke Ingels' firm has completed on Manhattan's West Side and is shown in these images by photographer Iwan Baan (+ slideshow). More about Iwan Baan photographs BIG's completed Via 57 West tower in New York
Canadian firm +tongtong has overhauled a traditional home in Toronto, adding a large triangular window, dark zinc cladding and an interior lightwell that provides natural illumination. More about +tongtong uses grey and black zinc to transform Victorian home in Toronto
A red brick building designed for one of the UK's oldest libraries will be the first new addition to Lambeth Palace – the historic home of the Archbishop of Canterbury – in almost two centuries (+ slideshow). More about Wright & Wright unveils first addition to London's historic Lambeth Palace in over 180 years
A technical fault trapped 180 passengers inside the doughnut-shaped viewing pod of the i360 observation tower last night, leaving them suspended above Brighton's seafront for two hours. More about "Slight technical hitch" traps 180 passengers inside world's tallest moving observation tower
London Design Biennale 2016: architect Fernando Romero has unveiled plans for a binational city spanning the US-Mexico border, amid Donald Trump's calls for a wall to be built between the two countries (+ slideshow). More about Borders are "primitive" limits says designer of US-Mexico binational city
The corner appears to have been chopped off this house in Japanese city Oita, revealing a tree growing behind the building's walls (+ slideshow). More about Kenta Eto completes house with sliced-away corner in Japan
This waterfront family dwelling in Maryland by American studio Robert Gurney Architect consists of overlapping volumes clad in stone, wood, fibre cement and glass (+ slideshow). More about Robert Gurney clusters multiple volumes to create Maryland home
This week's roundup in our series on residential architecture from different US states brings us to Arkansas, home to a prefabricated cantilevered dwelling designed by students and a pool house with an overhanging sleeping loft (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in Arkansas on Dezeen
A translucent marble cube by Rex Architecture that will contain the Perelman Performing Arts Center has been unveiled as the "keystone" for the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan (+ slideshow). More about Rex releases images of performing arts centre for New York's World Trade Center
This unofficial drone video captures the construction of Foster + Partners' Apple headquarters in California as the outer shell of the campus nears completion (+ movie). More about Foster + Partners' Apple Campus 2 begins to take shape in drone video