England
Selencky Parsons designs glass and white concrete house in Oxfordshire
Steel bolts break on Richard Rogers’ Cheesegrater tower
House in Oxfordshire is covered in oak to create a “simplified volume”
London’s The Rom becomes first listed skatepark in Europe
Andrew Pilkington combines two Notting Hill apartments with a central atrium
Angular wooden roof reduces sound reverberation inside swimming pool by Duggan Morris
David Chipperfield models Bally flagship store on 1920s Marcel Breuer interior
Skeletal pavilion shaped like a lock keeper’s cottage pops up in London’s Olympic Park
Aberrant Architecture adds vivid colours and playful furnishings to an east London school
UK’s “first amphibious house” can float on floodwater like a boat in a dock
House for a pianist by David Sheppard Architects features fluted outer walls
Simon Astridge lines a walk-through dressing room in leather
Gundry & Ducker’s bubble tea cafe features cork seats and stripy paintwork
Black glass facade mirrors scenery at south London home by Ian McChesney
Peter Barber uses a “collage of materials” in hostel for homeless people
Zaha Hadid “pretty much chose herself” to design Women Fashion Power exhibition
Hawkins\Brown uses wooden partitions to create temporary warehouse home for The Bartlett
Barber and Osgerby’s Science Museum gallery is their “most important” architecture project
London’s Design Museum to offer free entry from 2016
Peter William Holden’s Frankensteinian robots perform dance routines to music
Carey House by Henry Goss: “Visualisation played a vital role in design decisions”
David Adjaye to transform “Mole Man” house in London into home for artists
Thomas Heatherwick’s Bombay Sapphire distillery photographed by Hufton + Crow