London studio Theis + Khan has completed the new headquarters for the Royal Institute of British Architects, featuring a bright and spacious cafe space and custom-made plywood furnishings (+ slideshow). More about Theis + Khan creates colourful new headquarters for the RIBA
Dezeen promotion: a life-size plane crash constructed from wood and a field of giant dandelions are among the 10 sculptures installed across the mountainous Sancy region in France as part of this year's Horizons arts and nature festival (+ slideshow). More about Horizons 2015 installations include wooden plane crash and dandelion field
A sequence of house-shaped volumes make up the form of this medical centre, designed by Hkl Studio to blend in with neighbouring homes on the outskirts of Chiba, Japan (+ slideshow). More about House-shaped clinic designed by Hkl Studio to make elderly patients feel more at home
This timber-framed house by architect Tatsuyuki Takagi is raised up by a cantilevered concrete slab, keeping it away from a busy road in Toyohashi, Japan (+ slideshow). More about Fly Out House balances on a concrete wall to avoid overlooking a busy road
Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates has completed a water-cooling facility at Ohio State University that is sheathed in a copper-coloured aluminium screen (+slideshow). More about Leers Weinzapfel wraps water-cooling plant in a copper-coloured screen
Graduate shows 2015: two Royal College of Art graduates have made a series of stools by running an electric current through wires embedded in waste nylon powder from 3D printing (+ slideshow). More about Studio Ilio uses electricity to form solid objects from wire and waste 3D-printing powder
Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has reframed the cable car station on the top of Switzerland's Chäserrugg mountain by enveloping it within a wooden restaurant building (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron completes a mountain-top restaurant around a cable car station
Bjarke Ingels' firm has won a competition to design a 185-metre-high skyscraper in Frankfurt, with a proposal it describes as both classical and sculptural (+ slideshow). More about BIG's experiments in skyscraper design continue with Frankfurt win
A brick water tower now stands at the entrance to this 1980s bungalow in Santa Fe, Argentina, which has been remodelled and extended by local firm Biagioni Pecorari Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More about Biagioni Pecorari adds brick water tower to remodelled house in Argentina
The asymmetric profile of this suburban house in Belgium was generated directly from the permitted building heights prescribed by local planning regulations (+ slideshow). More about Villa Willemsdorp by Dieter De Vos features a lopsided gable and walls clad with roof tiles
A plywood bar that transitions into a staircase forms the centre of this office and networking hub housed in the Dutch city of Delft's former technology museum (+ slideshow). More about Ateliers transforms old technology museum in Delft into flexible open-plan office
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto used locally sourced materials to create this countryside arts venue at a former farm on the outskirts of Guangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More about Sou Fujimoto uses seashells and thatching for village-inspired arts complex in rural China
Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has added a wooden lattice to the front of this Rio de Janeiro lighting shop – filtering natural light during the day and creating a glowing facade at night (+ slideshow). More about Studio MK27 surrounds Rio lighting showroom with wooden lattice
British designer-craftsman Sebastian Cox has designed a kitchen for English brand DeVol that features rough-sawn timber and panels of woven beech. More about Sebastian Cox's "urban rustic" kitchen for DeVol features sawn and woven timber
WillemsenU Architecten has remodelled a 1960s house near Eindhoven, adding a new dark cladding to the exterior and reorganising the rooms inside (+ slideshow) More about House in the Netherlands upgraded with a dark grey cladding of timber panels and tiles
Brooklyn-based visual artist Aaron Asis tied over 2,000 metres of blue cord across Philadelphia's disused St Andrew's Collegiate Chapel for this installation (+ slideshow). More about Blue cord criss-crosses the interior of an abandoned church in Philadelphia
Australian firm Cox Architecture has extended a house in the capital city, Canberra, with a lightweight glass and steel conservatory (+ slideshow). More about Cox Architecture adds steel and glass conservatory to 1920s house in Canberra
Both original geometric tiles and contemporary machine-milled latticework decorate the reception of this boutique hotel in Penang, Malaysia, which occupies a row of traditional shophouses (+ slideshow). More about Ministry of Design transforms five Malaysian shophouses into a boutique hotel
Graduate shows 2015: this student-designed house in Ghana pairs rammed-earth walls with translucent screens made from used water packaging, demonstrating how traditional construction can be combined with recycling (+ slideshow). More about Nkabom House is a prototypical Ghanaian home made from mud and waste plastic
Walls made from a traditional combination of stone and hemp-based plaster contrast with concrete, steel and glass details at this renovated house in the French village of Douvaine (+ slideshow). More about FRAR transforms a dilapidated French house and barn into a holiday home