World Architecture Festival 2015: British architect Will Alsop says there are more opportunities for ideas-driven architecture projects in China – like his Gao Yang development, which features a four-storey hanging restaurant – in this movie filmed in London (+ movie). More about China more open to new architecture than risk-averse UK, says Will Alsop
As SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion closes this weekend, this movie by Stephenson/Bishop takes a closer look at the details of colourful plastic structure, which will now move to a permanent home in Los Angeles (+ movie). More about SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion closes this weekend after attracting 170,000 visitors
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Bangkok studio All(zone) has conceived a small temporary home intended to be set up inside unfinished high-rise buildings in tropical cities (+ movie). More about Micro dwelling by All(zone) could be erected within abandoned towers
Movie: in the next instalment of our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director recalls her trip to Brazil to convince Oscar Niemeyer to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2003. More about Oscar Niemeyer "took the brief very seriously" for 2003 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Fibreglass petals overlap to create the transparent roof of Amanda Levete's forest-inspired MPavilion, which opened to the public today in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens (+ movie). More about Amanda Levete's tree canopy-like MPavilion opens in Melbourne
In a newly released video, American architect Jeanne Gang explains how natural crystal formations inspired the shape of Vista Residences, a new skyscraper proposed for Chicago that will be the world's tallest building designed by a woman (+ movie). More about Chicago's Vista skyscraper by Jeanne Gang will be world's tallest building designed by a woman
London Design Festival 2015: the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Regent Street Windows project returns with 13 new installations up and down one of London's most famous shopping streets (+ movie). More about Architects create series of installations in shop windows along Regent Street
Communications firm Darkhorse has used a camera mounted to a drone to capture footage of Via 57 West, the residential building by Bjarke Ingels Group that is now rising in New York (+ movie). More about Drone video shows progress on New York "courtscraper" by BIG
Groves Natcheva Architects have turned to movie making, setting a "dark and psychotically inventive" short film in an apartment they renovated to explore new ways of representing architecture beyond still images (+ movie). More about Groves Natcheva produce thriller movie to explore alternative ways of presenting architecture
An unofficial drone movie shot over the site of the new Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino, California, shows the latest progress on Foster + Partners' "doughnut" office design (+ movie). More about Drone movie shows Foster + Partners' Apple Campus 2 beginning to rise out of the ground
Movie: in the next instalment from our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director recalls the difficulty in convincing Japanese architect Toyo Ito to design the gallery's 2002 summer pavilion. More about Toyo Ito "gulped" when asked to design the 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Movie: next in our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director discusses Daniel Libeskind's angular metal pavilion from 2001, which she likens to a folded paper sculpture. More about Daniel Libeskind's 2001 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was folded "like a piece of origami"
Zaha Hadid Architects has released a new movie detailing its design for its scrapped Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium, which it describes as "the only way to achieve value for money in the market" (+ movie). More about Zaha Hadid Architects launches campaign to reinstate scrapped Tokyo stadium design
In the 10th and final instalment from our exclusive MVRDV movie series, architect Winy Maas explains how the firm's huge arch-shaped market hall in Rotterdam has become a place for meeting and celebration (+ movie). More about MVRDV's Markthal in Rotterdam "monumentalises food" says Winy Maas
This pavilion in Holon, Israel, designed by New York-based architects MODU with Geotectura, has a dynamic canopy made of mesh fabric and small balls that move with the wind (+ movie). More about Cloud Seeding Pavilion by MODU features canopy made of 30,000 plastic balls
Square and circular holes puncture the concrete facade of this house in Japan by Fuse Atelier, allowing light to filter through to five small terraces concealed behind (+ movie). More about Fuse Atelier's House in Tsudanuma brings light in through a perforated concrete facade
Developers in London claim to be building the world's first sky pool, but an even more extreme suspended glass-bottomed swimming pool is already underway in India (+ movie). More about Transparent swimming pool to bridge Indian tower blocks 12 storeys up
Movie: next up in our exclusive video series celebrating the 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones looks back at how Zaha Hadid's marquee from 2000 launched the annual commission. More about Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion set the bar for what followed, says Julia Peyton-Jones
Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how his design for a "big building composed of mini units" created a headquarters for Norway's DNB Bank interspersed with indoor and outdoor meeting places, in the penultimate movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). More about MVRDV used pixellated forms to make DNB Bank "human and approachable" says Winy Maas
Bjarke Ingels has become the latest architect to use crowdfunding to finance a project, launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for development of a power plant chimney that will blow smoke rings (+ movie) More about BIG launches Kickstarter campaign for smoke-ring-blowing chimney at Copenhagen power plant