A pile of timber-clad volumes with windows positioned to make the most of views and natural light form this energy-efficient office building for an ecological centre in Luxembourg (+ slideshow). More about Steinmetzdemeyer stacks wooden blocks to form low-energy office building
Following the opening of the Milan Expo, which includes temporary structures by Foster + Partners and Daniel Libeskind, we've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to pavilions to show some of the best examples published on Dezeen over the last year.
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A four-storey concrete framework extends into a courtyard to mark the entrance to this new engineering faculty building designed by John McAslan + Partners for a university in northern England (+ slideshow). More about Concrete columns frame the entrance to John McAslan's Lancaster University building
Ball-Nogues Studio created a sinuous orange and purple pavilion that towered over music fans at this year's Coachella music festival by blasting pigmented paper pulp over a string structure (+ slideshow). More about Coachella festival pavilion by Ball-Nogues Studio built using over a tonne of paper pulp
Gardens are slotted into gaps between the wings of this Beijing school by Open Architecture, and extend over mounds containing a subterranean swimming pool and an auditorium (+ slideshow). More about Open Architecture completes a "free-form" Beijing school surrounded by gardens
This wedge-shaped cabin, installed by architect Todd Saunders in the garden of a Norwegian home, appears to have had a chunk cut away from its middle to create a garden terrace (+ slideshow). More about Tiny wedge-shaped cabin by Todd Saunders has a terrace puncturing its middle
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a series of new structures including a glass play tower with a faceted facade, as part of an expansion to the Swarovski Kristallwelten attraction in Austria (+ slideshow). More about Snøhetta designs new buildings for reopening of Swarovski's crystal theme park
The Szczecin Philharmonic Hall in Poland by Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga has won the European Union's architecture prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. More about Szczecin Philharmonic Hall wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2015
Latticed and LED-illuminated climbing frames and a geometric-patterned sun seat are among the installations to be erected in the Nevada desert for the Burning Man arts festival this summer (+ slideshow). More about London architecture students design desert pavilions for Burning Man festival
Milan Expo 2015: climbing frame meets bouncy castle inside Brazil's Expo pavilion, where Studio Arthur Casas and Atelier Marko Brajović have suspended a huge rope canopy over a garden (+ slideshow). More about Brazil's Expo pavilion contains a bouncy landscape of suspended rope
Prominent names in the contemporary art world are fighting to save the Russell Page-designed viewing garden at New York's Frick Collection museum. More about Artists rally to protect Russell Page garden at New York's Frick museum
Chicago is expected to be named as the location for the Obama presidential library next week, with David Adjaye tipped to be the project's architect. More about Adjaye in the frame for Obama library ahead of official announcement
Opinion: the ideals of Modernism can't survive the pressures of a voracious market that views buildings purely as capital, says Reinier de Graaf. More about "The same architecture that once embodied social mobility now helps to prevent it"
The future of Google's new BIG- and Heatherwick-designed California headquarters is in jeopardy – because social network LinkedIn has been given most of the land required to build it. More about LinkedIn blocks BIG and Heatherwick's proposed Google HQ
A plot left unused for decades because of its awkward triangular shape is now the home of this concrete cafe designed by South Korean office Studio GAON (+ slideshow). More about Studio GAON completes a concrete cafe beside a dual carriageway in South Korea
Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati added concrete fins to the walls of this house in rural Portugal, which splay outwards and inwards like the flaps of an open box to provide shade for a garden within (+ slideshow). More about Splayed concrete walls give Valerio Olgiati's Villa Além the appearance of an open box
The Museum of Shit is housed in an Italian castle and is dedicated to demonstrating "what a useful and living substance crap really is" (+ slideshow). More about Italy's Museo della Merda is full of shit
These two metal-clad towers featuring stepped forms and angular balconies were designed to prove that, after years of skyscraper restrictions in Paris, height is no longer taboo (+ slideshow). More about Paris' tallest housing block in over 40 years is clad with gold and silver metal
Milan Expo 2015: a robot cut all the components used to build France's Expo pavilion – a curved wooden lattice structure designed by XTU Architects to become a trellis for growing vegetables, herbs and hops (+ slideshow). More about France's Expo pavilion is a wooden lattice with plants and food slotted into its crevices
Danish firm Gottlieb Paludan Architects has seen off competition from BIG, Henning Larsen Architects and 3XN to win a project designing a new biomass-fired heating and energy plant in Copenhagen. More about Gottlieb Paludan Architects fuels Copenhagen's ambition to become carbon-neutral by 2025