Designed to looked like a four-petalled flower, this office block is the first of 10 buildings that Dutch firm MVRDV is constructing beside Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV completes flower-inspired office block near Shanghai Hongqiao Airport
This Kuala Lumpur home has bedrooms with corners that slide open, an indoor tree and voids between the floors to make the interior feel more like an outdoor space (+ slideshow). More about Fabian Tan's Ittka House is designed to offer respite from Malaysian heat
Two buildings with gabled profiles extend along the edges of an angular courtyard at the centre of this residential development in Stockholm by Joliark. More about Twin pitched-roof apartment buildings by Joliark look onto a central courtyard
On the edge of Mexico's border with the US, this house by New York-based architects T38 Studio hides an enclosed courtyard garden behind its black stucco volumes (+ slideshow). More about House in Mexico by T38 Studio contains a private courtyard garden
This multifunctional building by French studio PPA Architectures, provides a residence, gallery, workshop and events space, and stands at the edge of a golf course on the outskirts of Toulouse, southern France (+ slideshow). More about PPA Architectures completes gallery space and residence overlooking a Toulouse golf course
A sunken courtyard brings daylight down into the new living room and study of this north London home, added by Coffey Architects in place of an old garage. More about Islington extension by Coffey Architects brings in light through a sunken courtyard
The culture, climate and resources of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region informed the design of this refuge for victims of domestic violence, made up of various yellow buildings arranged around a courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Hollmén Reuter Sandman uses local materials and motifs for Kilimanjaro women's refuge
This Seoul residential block was designed by local studio Archihood WXY to look like a cluster of four buildings, with each facade featuring a gabled profile in just one corner (+ slideshow). More about Seoul apartment block by Archihood WXY features tunnel-like balconies and gabled corners
Curving glass walls enclose bamboo-planted courtyards in this tea house, which occupies a formerly derelict building complex in one Beijing's ancient neighbourhoods (+ slideshow). More about Arch Studio transforms Beijing hutong into tea house with curving glass courtyards
LA studio wHY has completed a new home for the art department at Pomona College in Claremont, California, with ample gallery space and studios that offer views of the surrounding landscape (+ slideshow). More about Sculptural roof tops new arts centre designed by wHY for California's Pomona College
This house in Princeton, New Jersey by New York studio Levenbetts is organised around a courtyard, offering views of a private garden as well as out to the surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). More about Courtyard house by Levenbetts embraces its wooded landscape in Princeton
French studio Marchi Architectes has completed an asymmetric gabled house featuring a room that functions as a courtyard and a generous corridor that doubles as an art gallery (+ slideshow). More about Chestnuts House in France features a courtyard room and a private art gallery
Triendl und Fessler Architekten has completed an affordable home in an Austrian village, featuring a hole in its centre that provides residents with a secluded garden courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Triendl und Fessler Architekten plans low-cost family home around a secret courtyard
Thirty-six slender columns support the thin concrete canopy of this colonnade, which provides an outdoor events space for a house museum on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula (+ slideshow). More about White concrete pavilion by Materia Arquitectonica creates an outdoor events space for historic house
This social housing development in Zingem, Belgium, responds to its location between a busy road and an agrarian landscape with a "ranch-like" arrangement of buildings framing a central courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Volt Architecten's Belgian housing scheme is designed to look like a farmstead
Sandwiched between a shrine entrance and a farm in Japan's Shiga Prefecture, this family residence by Japanese architect Kouichi Kimura comprises metal-clad blocks that frame a courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Kouichi Kimura's Courtyard House wraps around a private terrace
Thin blue strings are stretched between arch-shaped frames to create tunnels across the cloister garden of a French cathedral (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Yokyok installs vaulted string tunnels in a Gothic cloister garden
Dutch architecture office UNStudio has completed the first two buildings of a major new university campus in Singapore, designed as a seamless network of rooms, balconies and courtyards (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio completes first buildings for new Singapore university campus
A triangular courtyard is contained at the centre of this three-sided high school in South Korea by Nameless Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Triangle School by Nameless Architecture has a three-sided courtyard at its centre
London Design Festival 2015: Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has added a series of adaptable mirrored platforms to the V&A museum's central courtyard, referencing an ancient Aztec city built over a lake (+ slideshow). More about Frida Escobedo creates an Aztec-inspired installation in the V&A courtyard