The glazed public areas of this cultural centre on the French island of Corsica are sandwiched between a solid concrete base and an upper storey clad in perforated golden metal (+ slideshow). More about Cultural Centre of Bastia contrasts a dark concrete base with a golden crown
Tel Aviv architect Kedem Shinar drew on Israel's Bauhaus architecture and her training in Japan to create the clean lines of this bright white house in Carmey Yossef (+ movie). More about Kedem Shinar bases boxy Israel home on Bauhaus architecture
This mountainside restaurant by Murman Arkitekter has giant triangular gables and is set at the top of a ski slope in northern Sweden (+ slideshow). More about Murman Arkitekter completes tent-shaped restaurant for a Swedish ski resort
Instagram users have been posting images of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's empty Breuer building in New York, before the interiors are populated with art works for its opening next month. More about Instagram users offer a sneak peek inside The Met's empty Breuer building
Carmody Groarke has won a contest to design a precarious cliffside suite for an Art Deco hotel on Burgh Island, which is set off England's south Devon coast. More about Carmody Groarke reveals plans for cliffside hotel on Devon's Burgh Island
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced that the art collector James Goldstein has donated his John Lautner-designed house, which famously appeared in cult film The Big Lebowski, to the museum. More about John Lautner's Big Lebowski porn house gifted to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
London studio Moxon Architects has released images of its design for a home nestled into a quarry in the Scottish highlands, which has been granted planning permission and will start construction later this year (+ slideshow). More about Moxon secures planning permission for house in a quarry surrounded by protected woodland
A transparent sauna that exposes its bathers and a charred timber globe offering refuge from the chilly weather are among this year's Winter Stations installations on the shores of Lake Ontario (+ slideshow). More about Winter follies open along the frozen beaches of Canada's Lake Ontario
Taking influences from the vernacular houses of the southern US, this low-cost house in Houston by ZDES architects is designed to accommodate a family, but can be divided up to allow the owners to rent out private areas. More about Shotgun Chameleon house in Houston designed to help its owners offset their mortgage
London office Studio Octopi has returned to a house it renovated over five years ago to add a loft extension, creating a study and a reading room connected by a perforated steel staircase (+ slideshow). More about Studio Octopi adds plywood-lined loft extension to RCA professor's house
A decommissioned Soviet rocket is the centrepiece for this sculptural cast-concrete office in York, England, designed by Make Architects for insurance company Hiscox (+ slideshow). More about Hiscox office building by Make Architects features a grand staircase and a Soviet rocket
A new taco restaurant in Austin, Texas, by Chioco Design references mid-century American roadside buildings and signage with bright red columns and a distinctive roofline (+ slideshow). More about Torchy's Tacos by Chioco Design references 1950s roadside architecture
Movie: in the final instalment of our exclusive video series, Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones reflects on Smiljan Radić's use of handmade paper models to design his bulbous pavilion in 2014. More about Model making was key to the design of Smiljan Radić's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2014
New images of a planned 304-metre-tall tower in Brooklyn by SHoP Architects have been revealed in advance of a review by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. More about New images of SHoP's supertall Brooklyn tower revealed
This year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale chief curator Diogo Seixas Lopes, who has been described as one of the most important thinkers on Portuguese architecture, has died. More about Lisbon Architecture Triennale curator Diogo Seixas Lopes dies aged 43
Architects office McGonigle McGrath has been granted planning permission to transform a heritage-listed war memorial building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a boutique hotel. More about McGonigle McGrath to convert Belfast memorial building into boutique hotel
Dutch landscape firm West 8 has masterplanned a new botanical garden in Houston, Texas, featuring a mosaic of gardens and a bridge incorporating an arch of trees. More about West 8 plans botanical garden for Houston featuring an arching tree bridge
The trio of white concrete blocks that form this Mexico City home have been arranged around a shallow pool and a tree by architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso (+ slideshow). More about White concrete house by Taller Hector Barroso surrounds a tranquil pool
Brooklyn creative agency Quoted Studios has produced an animated video using audio excerpts from an interview with legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, recorded two years before his death (+ movie). More about Frank Lloyd Wright interview from the 1950s revived in animated movie
3XN has unveiled plans to build a residential tower in Aarhus that will be almost as tall as the Danish city's cathedral. More about 3XN wins approval for Aarhus tower rivalling the height of the city's cathedral