Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled conceptual plans for Stockholm's tallest building – a 133-metre wooden skyscraper covered in numbers, which would be erected on top of a 1960s car park in the city centre. More about Anders Berensson proposes wooden skyscraper with decorative facade for Stockholm
This football stadium in Montreal has a giant faceted roof structure, which folds over an indoor playing field before morphing into spectator seating surrounding a second open-air pitch (+ slideshow). More about Crystalline soccer stadium by Saucier + Perrotte and HCMA references Canadian mining landscape
The architects behind a prefabricated housing company have completed one of their smallest buildings so far – a cuboidal property raised on a mirrored plinth above a grassy Portuguese landscape (+ movie). More about MIMA Light is a small prefabricated house raised up from the landscape on a near-invisible base
Architecture firm Waugh Thistleton has unveiled plans to build a timber-framed office block in London's Shoreditch that will reveal its state-of-the-art structure through a series of vertical slices. More about Shoreditch office by Waugh Thistleton will show off innovative timber structure
French architect Jean Paul Viguier has won a competition to design a new housing and office complex in Bordeaux, proposing a trio of timber-framed towers that will be among the tallest of their kind in the world. More about Jean Paul Viguier selected ahead of Sou Fujimoto for timber-framed tower complex in Bordeaux
A cross-laminated timber roof covers this six-lane swimming pool, which London firm Hawkins\Brown plans to add to a school in Surrey (+ slideshow). More about Hawkins\Brown designs pool that will give the sense of "swimming amongst the trees"
A change to building regulation codes in Australia means that architects will be allowed to build timber-framed structures up to eight storeys in height for the first time. More about Australia becomes latest nation to embrace wooden high-rise buildings
US design-and-build firm Go Logic has completed a summer house on the rocky coastline of Maine made up of three wooden cabins, each linked by terraced decks (+ slideshow). More about Trio of wooden cabins forms Little House on the Ferry in rural Maine
Lever Architecture has designed a 12-storey tower for Portland, Oregon, that will be one of the tallest wooden buildings in the US. More about Lever Architecture proposes timber-framed tower for Portland
This small commercial building in Portland, Oregon, designed by Works Partnership Architecture has an engineered timber frame that is visible behind a glass curtain wall (+ slideshow). More about Glass facade reveals timber structure of Frame Work building in Portland
Wood is taking over from steel and concrete as the architectural wonder material of the 21st century, with architects praising its sustainability, quality and speed of construction. (+ slideshow). More about Architects embrace "the beginning of the timber age"
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: architecture studio Ultramoderne has completed its competition-winning Chicago pavilion, which was built using the largest lengths of timber that can be shipped across North America (+ slideshow). More about Mies-inspired pavilion with "biggest wooden roof possible" opens on Chicago lakefront
Hawkins\Brown has completed a 33-metre-high apartment block in London's Shoreditch, which the studio claims is "the tallest building to use structural cross-laminated timber in Europe" (+ slideshow). More about Hawkins\Brown pairs cross-laminated timber and steel for record-breaking apartment block
OOPEAA has won the 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture with Puukuokka – the tallest wooden apartment block in Finland and one of the first high-rise examples of prefabricated cross-laminated timber construction in the world. More about Finland's tallest wooden apartment block wins Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2015
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: a wall-less pavilion with a rooftop viewing platform has been named the winner of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's competition to design a lakefront kiosk. More about Ultramoderne wins competition to design lakefront kiosk for Chicago Architecture Biennial
Prefabricated modules of cross-laminated timber were "plugged in like Lego pieces" to build this eight-storey apartment block in Finland – one of the first examples of its type in the world (+ slideshow). More about OOPEAA completes Finland's first high-rise wooden apartment building
London studio Carmody Groarke has used timber and plastic to build a temporary exhibition space for the White Cube art gallery in the grounds of a country house in East Sussex, England (+ slideshow). More about Carmody Groarke's new White Cube gallery is an angular timber and plastic pavilion
Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a row of high-rise apartment blocks constructed from timber that will tower over an old harbour in Stockholm. More about Tham & Videgård designs wooden residential towers for Stockholm waterfront
This house in the English countryside by London firm Wilkinson King Architects features red cedar cladding and a folded roof designed to evoke the line of hills on the horizon (+ slideshow). More about Sussex House by Wilkinson King Architects boasts cedar-clad walls and a ridged roof
Norwegian architect Tron Meyer has designed a spiral staircase made entirely from laminated wood carved into curving steps that optimise the space for walking on (+ slideshow). More about Risa spiral staircase by Tron Meyer features fanning timber steps