Visitors to this restaurant near Shanghai can enter by crossing a bridge over a lily pond or ascend onto its plant-covered roof to enjoy views of the adjacent lake (+ slideshow). More about Domed roof garden covers Waterfront Restaurant by Pro-form Architects
News: OMA is set to transform part of a former shipyard in Shanghai into a 1,500-square-metre exhibition centre, after winning an international design competition. More about OMA scoops Shanghai exhibition centre competition
A screen of hollow concrete bricks provides privacy for students using this shower and changing facility at a Shanghai technical college (+ slideshow). More about Hollow concrete blocks form a textured frontage for Wuyang Architecture's student shower block
AIM Architecture has designed a lobby featuring a light tunnel and a white "gallery-style" shopping centre for a retail and office complex in Shanghai (+ slideshow). More about AIM Architecture designs "back to the future" interiors for Shanghai shopping centre
Sports brand Nike has created a full-sized basketball court with motion-tracking and reactive LED visualisation technology built into the floor to help American star Kobe Bryant teach his moves to young players in Shanghai (+ slideshow). More about Nike creates first full-size LED basketball court in Shanghai for training with Kobe Bryant
Wooden house-shaped volumes are inserted into this office in the attic of a converted industrial building in Shanghai, by Chinese architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, creating a contrast with raw concrete fittings (+ slideshow). More about Flamingo Shanghai offices by Neri&Hu feature raw concrete and angular meeting rooms
A small wooden cabin with louvred brass windows occupies the centre of this Isabel Marant fashion boutique in Shanghai, designed by Ciguë to reference the traditional houses that once populated the site (+ slideshow). More about Ciguë builds a wooden cabin in the middle of Isabel Marant's Shanghai boutique
Glass floors allow residents to look down from a dining table into a toilet inside this windowless concrete house in Shanghai by Chinese firm Atelier FCJZ (+ slideshow). More about Vertical Glass House by Atelier FCJZ has glass floors instead of windows
The walls of this six-sided community centre in a suburb of Shanghai by Scenic Architecture Office project outwards from a central courtyard and are connected by an angular roof (+ slideshow). More about Hexagonal community centre in Shanghai by Scenic Architecture Office
News: architecture firm Foster + Partners and designer Thomas Heatherwick have unveiled images of a finance centre they are collaborating on, which is currently under construction in Shanghai. More about Foster and Heatherwick team up on Shanghai finance centre
Mirrored walls and glass ceilings transform this office interior in Shanghai into a labyrinth of reflected light and imagery (+ slideshow). More about Glass office for Soho China by AIM Architecture
An old brick and timber house appears to have been cut in two inside the new Shanghai flagship store for shoe brand Camper, designed by Chinese architects Neri&Hu (+ slideshow) More about Camper Shanghai by Neri&Hu
News: the topping-out ceremony for the Gensler-designed Shanghai Tower, the world's second-tallest building, takes place in Shanghai tomorrow (Saturday). More about World's second-tallest building tops out in Shanghai
News: construction has started on a hotel resort that will nestle into the 100 metre-high rockface of an abandoned water-filled quarry outside Shanghai. More about Cave hotel underway in water-filled Chinese quarry
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has unmasked the I-beams structure of the oldest steel-framed building in Shanghai to create an Italian restaurant with a raw industrial interior (+ slideshow). More about Mercato at Three on the Bund by Neri&Hu
News: construction has started on a mixed-use development by Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen on the former site of the 2010 Shanghai Expo. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen breaks ground on former Shanghai Expo site
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu sliced away the rear wall and replaced it with glass for this renovation of a 1930s townhouse in Shanghai. More about Rethinking the Split House by Neri&Hu
Dutch firm MVRDV has won a design competition for a new business district in Shanghai, which is already under construction near the city's Hongqiao Airport. More about Central Business District at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport by MVRDV with Aedas
3Gatti Architecture Studio will add a facade of opening and closing steel umbrellas to Foreign Office Architects' Madrid Pavilion from the 2010 Shanghai Expo (+ slideshow). More about Umbrella Facade for the Madrid Pavilion by 3Gatti Architecture Studio
Chinese studio Archi-Union has converted an office block in Shanghai into an art gallery with a concrete staircase twisting through its middle (+ slideshow). More about Jade Museum by Archi-Union