Concrete piers support the aluminium-clad blocks of this new architecture school building at the University of Portsmouth, England, designed by Penoyre & Prasad around a landscaped courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Penoyre & Prasad completes new architecture school building for University of Portsmouth
Several windows splay from one end of this weathering steel church, designed by Vicens + Ramos as the centrepiece for a growing residential community near Madrid (+ slideshow). More about Pre-rusted steel church by Vicens + Ramos features an "explosion" of windows
A monumental car park building close to London's Oxford Street is being sold, meaning it could now be demolished to make way for a new hotel. More about London car park of "sublime beauty" at risk of demolition
Opinion: after Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde was forced into an awkward discussion about the ownership of his projects, Louise Schouwenberg suggests that "star" individuals shouldn't be getting all the credit. More about "It's about time we rethink the notion of authorship"
The dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas has resigned over a new state law that will allow students to carry guns on campus. More about University of Texas architecture dean leaves post over new campus gun law
The pixelated 314-metre-high skyscraper designed by former OMA architect Ole Scheeren is nearing completion in Bangkok. More about Ole Scheeren's "carved" MahaNakhon skyscraper scheduled to complete this year
Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled designs for a major residential development in downtown Toronto, reminiscent of the experimental housing complex built by Moshe Safdie in the 1960s (+ slideshow). More about BIG designs "Habitat 2.0" for Toronto
Berlin is to extend the refugee camp at the decommissioned Tempelhof Airport, making room for 7,000 people in and around one of the German capital's most iconic buildings. More about Berlin's Tempelhof Airport to become Germany's largest refugee camp
Haunches of ham are displayed in rows behind the glazed facade of this semi-underground prosciutto factory, which sits beneath a grassy roof in Italy's hilly Umbrian countryside (+ slideshow). More about Enzo Eusebi builds sunken prosciutto factory in the Italian countryside
Walls with built-in flowerpots and a staircase that functions as a play space both feature at this Seoul kindergarten by local architect Jungmin Nam (+ slideshow). More about Flower Kindergarten by Jungmin Nam features curvy classrooms and colourful corridors
China has released a directive that could put an end to the country's trend for bombastic architecture. More about China moves to prevent "oversized, xenocentric and weird" architecture
Opinion: by walking out of Berlin's Neues Museum with an illicit 3D scan of the bust of Queen Nefertiti, a pair of artists has forced us to question whether conservation is an act of care or a radical form of repression, says Sam Jacob. More about "The copy in contemporary culture is both despised and feared"
Official images have been released revealing the tiered form of Herzog & de Meuron's school of government and public policy at the University of Oxford, England (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron's Blavatnik School of Government "inspired by parliamentary spaces"
Via 57 West, the tetrahedron-shaped Manhattan apartment tower by BIG, is preparing to welcome its first group of tenants next month. More about New York "courtscraper" by Bjarke Ingels set to open in March
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has unveiled plans to build a mile-high observation tower, envisioned as a vertical alternative to New York's Central Park. More about Carlo Ratti designs mile-high observation tower with a park on top
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is scheduled to partially open next week in Lower Manhattan, more than a decade after work began. More about Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit terminal to quietly open next week
Architecture is a fundamentally humanitarian profession according to Swiss architect Jacques Herzog, who believes a building's success should be judged on whether it is filled with people. More about All architecture needs a humanitarian approach, says Jacques Herzog
Brazilian office Terra e Tuma has demolished and rebuilt the narrow São Paulo home of an elderly woman to combat numerous problems with structure and sanitation (+ slideshow). More about Narrow São Paulo house rebuilt for an elderly resident by Terra e Tuma
A trio of glass-ended boxes forms this compact Melbourne house by Austin Maynard Architects, which was designed to give the resident family "just the right amount of space" (+ slideshow). More about Melbourne house by Austin Maynard is deliberately half the size of its neighbours
Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has completed a pine-clad cultural museum in western Norway, featuring a spiky roofline designed to help break up the scale of the building (+ slideshow). More about Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter creates spiky roofline for Romsdal Folk Museum in Norway