This collection of angular asphalt-clad roof extensions provide elevated sleeping platforms, a study and a pair of funnel-shaped skylights for a home in eastern Denmark. More about Asphalt-clad roof pods by Leth & Gori create new rooms on top of a Danish bungalow
These new shots by photography duo Hufton + Crow depict the Long Museum West Bund – a contemporary art gallery in Shanghai built around an industrial structure once used for unloading huge quantities of coal (+ slideshow). More about Shanghai art museum by Atelier Deshaus brings together vaulted columns and an industrial relic
This timber-clad villa by Stockholm studio The Common Office stands between the trees of a steep rocky slope in the Swedish countryside (+ slideshow). More about Villa Altona by The Common Office fits around the trees of a Swedish woodland hill
A concrete floor merges with seating inside and outside this rusted steel and glass extension to a Victorian-style house in west London, designed by local architecture studio McLaren Excell (+ slideshow). More about McLaren Excell adds a weathered-steel and concrete extension to a London house
The living and dining rooms of this house overlooking a river valley in Connecticut, USA, are contained in a timber-clad box raised up by concrete buttresses (+ slideshow). More about Bridge House by Joeb Moore & Partners straddles a site on the edge of a valley
Strips of black-stained timber give a charred appearance to this extension to a north-west London flat, designed by Fraher Architects to create a bigger kitchen for a client who loves to cook (+ slideshow). More about Blackened timber extension by Fraher Architects provides a new kitchen for a keen cook
Architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales has transformed a traditional white brick house in Mexico City into an apartment complex, with the addition of a row of black penthouses (+ slideshow). More about Cadaval & Solà-Morales installs angular black penthouses during renovation of a 1920s building
A pair of glass doors, weighing almost four tonnes and measuring six metres in height, pivot out towards the garden of this renovated Antwerp home. More about Sculp IT adds "world's largest pivoting window" to an Antwerp townhouse
The buildings of this California housing community were designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects to suit the domestic and social needs of adults with autism – the fastest growing developmental disability in the US (+ slideshow). More about California housing by Leddy Maytum Stacy addresses the needs of residents with autism
With more people working from home and property prises rising around the world, homeowners lucky enough to have outdoor space are replacing the traditional shed with studios, guest rooms and flexible work spaces. Here are 12 of the best examples from Dezeen's archives (+ slideshow). More about 12 of the best garden studios
Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects stripped a house back to its concrete frame to create this pared-back open-plan villa featuring red brick walls, pivoting glass doors and leafy gardens (+ slideshow). More about MM++ Architects replaces the old walls of a Vietnam house with red bricks and pivoting glass
Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus renovated and extended the ground floor of an 18th-century townhouse to create this Lisbon home (+ slideshow). More about Manuel Aires Mateus reworks the interior of an 18th-century Lisbon townhouse
This kindergarten was designed by Suga Architects Office to make the most of a hemmed-in city plot and features a rooftop vegetable garden, a courtyard playground and a double-height playroom (+ slideshow). More about Takeno Nursery by Suga Architects Office hides a two-storey garden behind its wooden walls
London studio Loop.pH has created an inflatable plastic dome by London's River Thames that will be pumped full of scented vapour to create a gathering space intended to replicate the atmosphere of a traditional bathhouse (+ slideshow). More about Inflatable dome on the banks of the River Thames is filled with aromatic fog
Opinion: the farcical in-fighting between architectural education and practitioners – who blame each other for the industry's failures – has to stop, says Robert Mull, dean of the Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design. More about "The much-trumpeted separation between education and practice is a convenient invention"
This beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects is raised above the landscape, helping it to have a minimal impact on the fragile coastal ecosystem of its Cape Cod setting (+ slideshow). More about Beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects designed to "curve and shift" with the landscape
A faceted glass dome peaks above the prayer hall of Toronto's new Charles Correa-designed Islamic cultural centre, which shares a patch of parkland with Fumihiko Maki's Aga Khan Museum (+ slideshow). More about Charles Correa's crystalline Islamic centre joins the Aga Khan Museum in a Toronto park
London-based Soup Architects has completed a pair of matching artist's studios between the trees and pond of a garden in Suffolk, England (+ slideshow). More about Soup Architects adds a pair of art studios to a leafy Suffolk garden
The tiled roof of this residence in Switzerland has been raised by one metre to provide extra height for the newly renovated spaces within. More about Studio Inches raises the roof of a Swiss home to create a lofty living space
A trio of overlapping buildings all pointed in different directions make up this house in South Korea, designed by Engineforce Architects to accommodate a family of three (+ slideshow). More about Every occupant has their own domain in South Korean home by Engineforce Architects