This house in Portugal by Contaminar Arquitetos is made up of three volumes of different shapes and sizes, with narrow terraces slotted in between. More about Contaminar Arquitetos divides Texugueira House into a row of three blocks
Architecture 00 has transformed a former shoe-polish factory in London into offices, adding a zigzagging extension on the roof that mimics the gabled profile of the existing building (+ slideshow). More about Old London shoe-polish factory transformed into charity offices by Architecture 00
The townhouses that make up this residential development in Winnipeg, Canada, are arranged around a communal car park that has been concealed beneath an elevated courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Community courtyard conceals a car park for Winnipeg housing by 5468796 Architecture
Photo essay: Australian photographer Tom Blachford ventured out after dark to create photographs of California's Modernist houses that look like they could have been taken 70 years ago (+ slideshow). More about Midnight Modernism: Tom Blachford shoots Palm Springs houses by moonlight
Two glass-fronted concrete shells project from the side of a steeply sloping valley to form this house by Austrian studio Love Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Love Architecture completes house of two halves overlooking an Austrian valley
Taipei studio Q-Lab has completed a sports centre in Taiwan that appears to be shrouded under a huge faceted hood (+ slideshow). More about Zhonghe Sports Center in Taiwan boasts a hood-like faceted form
Slabs of concrete create sunshades that look like open shutters for the windows of this house in Argentina, designed by architect duo Santiago Carlos Viale and Daniella Beviglia (+ slideshow). More about House in La Rufina is a raw concrete residence elevated above the Argentinian landscape
A concrete walkway projects from the street onto the roof of this concrete home in Caxias, Portugal, which is designed to go unnoticed from a hilltop road (+ slideshow). More about Greenery and observation decks top hillside villa by António Costa Lima
This tiny two-room house, measuring just three metres wide, is raised above a grassy slope on metal legs in Hohenecken, Germany (+ slideshow). More about Micro house by Architekturbüro Scheder is raised off the ground on stilts
An oval museum filled with robots and other technological inventions has been scheduled for construction in Dubai (+ movie). More about Dubai unveils vision for Museum of the Future to showcase innovation in design
Jonathan Woolf Architects used chiselled sandstone to construct this family home near Nairobi, which is built into a hillside and topped by a heavy sloping roof (+ slideshow). More about Hewn sandstone walls and an overhanging roof enclose a hillside home in Nairobi
Monterrey studio Greenfield used walls of rammed earth and rugged stone to frame the rooms of this villa for the staff of an animal breeding facility in Mexico's Maderas del Carmen natural park (+ slideshow). More about The Cave is a rammed-earth and stone villa in a Mexico wildlife conservation facility
Exclusive: in this exclusive interview, BIG founder Bjarke Ingels talks about the spectacular new HQ he is co-designing for Google, which wants to set a new industry standard for workplace design and help define "Google 2.0" (+ movie). More about Google's new HQ will be "more like a workshop than a corporate office" says Bjarke Ingels
Triangular facets give a folded appearance to the bare concrete facade of this house in Argentina by local architect Nicolás Campodonico (+ movie). More about Faceted concrete T-shape facade fronts courtyard house in Santa Fe
An old house perched at the foot of the Swiss Alps has been converted into a gallery to exhibit the work of a local artist. More about Studio Inches renovates Alpine house to create a private gallery
A small extension to the rear of this remodelled townhouse in Dublin is clad and roofed in panels of opaque black glass, designed by architectural studio Ailtireacht to reflect the building's surroundings. More about Black glass box forms a reflective extension to a Victorian townhouse in Dublin
Small square openings are scattered across the facade of this after-school clubhouse in Cannes, France, offering glimpses of the activities taking place within its courtyard playground (+ slideshow). More about Heams & Michel Architectes creates an after-school club around a courtyard in Cannes
Opinion: the fight for London's Aylesbury estate – a negative symbol of the Modernist-inspired drive to standardise housing design – is about saving the ideas not the architecture, explains Owen Hatherley. More about "The places people are staking their lives on now aren't architectural icons"
News: French architect Jean Nouvel has applied for a court order to disassociate himself from the Paris concert hall, which he says is "non-compliant" with his original design. More about Jean Nouvel takes legal action to distance himself from "unfinished" Philharmonie de Paris
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our video interview with Ammar Mirjan, the architect explains how drones with cable dispensers attached can be used to quickly build lightweight architectural structures. More about Drones can "weave structures in space in just a few minutes"