British engineering company Buro Happold and American architecture studio CookFox Architects have developed a prototype for a terracotta facade system that can house small wildlife, insects, birds and plants. More about Buro Happold and Cookfox Architects develop living facade for birds and insects
Timber wall systems will need to pass a large-scale fire safety test before they can be used on medium-rise residential blocks in England under building regulations being introduced by the UK government. More about UK government introduces restrictions for timber in mid-rise buildings' external walls
Promotion: used across facades and architectural interventions Lapitec is a sintered stone architectural material that is developed to have a superior performance to stone and porcelain. More about Lapitec is a high-performance architectural material made from natural minerals
Global firm Henning Larsen Architects prioritised openness and connectivity to create a Minnesota government building that is part of a "new coalition of civic architecture across the United States". More about Henning Larsen creates gridded facade for Minneapolis Public Service Building
Architecture studio MVRDV took cues from the glamour of art deco architecture when creating the jade-coloured facade of the Bulgari Shanghai store. More about MVRDV creates jade-coloured Bulgari storefront from recycled champagne bottles
Photographer Hayley Eichenbaum has created a series of images documenting the roadside architecture of America's Route 66 that takes its cues from the often uncanny appearance of film stills. More about Hayley Eichenbaum captures the "punchy absurdity" of Route 66 roadside architecture
Architecture studio CetraRuddy has created a skyscraper informed by New York's Rockefeller Center with a chevron-patterned facade that pays homage to the surrounding art deco buildings. More about CetraRuddy completes art deco skyscraper topped with "sculpted crown" in New York
Danish studio Tegnestuen Lokal has transformed an apartment block in Copenhagen, by replacing its austere concrete exterior with angular, plant-filled blocks. More about Tegnestuen Lokal adds plant-filled blocks to "ugliest building in the neighbourhood"
American firm S9 Architecture has completed a tall residential building in a post-industrial New York neighbourhood, incorporating design elements that "pay homage to the past". More about S9 Architecture creates gridded facade for 111 Varick tower in Manhattan
Undulating panels of Corten steel create a woven effect across the facade of a seven-storey office block in St Petersburg designed by architect Sergei Tchoban. More about Sergei Tchoban uses Corten steel to create huge basket-weave facade
Design studio Rationale International — Masanori Design Studio has created an office in China with a curvilinear facade and undulating ceiling that draws on the qualities of fabric. More about Runxuan Textile Office features curvilinear aluminium facade
Dezeen promotion: solar product and technology manufacturer Mitrex has unveiled a range of solar-integrated products for high-rise and residential buildings that "transform a building's shell into a self-sufficient power system," according to the brand. More about Mitrex's solar products allow buildings to produce energy "without compromising beauty"
New York City studio Archi-Tectonics has added three storeys and a skin of folding slats to a home in SoHo. More about Archi-Tectonics envelops Manhattan townhouse in "climate skin"
Dezeen promotion: architectural cladding brand Cupa Pizarras has unveiled a rainscreen cladding system made from slate. More about Cupa Pizarras slate-cladding system Cupaclad offers modern siding options
Dezeen promotion: Chapman Taylor Architects has clad the German Aerospace Centre offices in Godesberger Allee, Bonn, with a copper and black concrete facade from materials developer Rieder. More about German Aerospace Centre's jet black facades crafted by Rieder
A double-skin glass facade envelops the Knight Center, an Oregon research facility designed by American firms Ennead Architects and Bora Architecture & Interiors. More about Triangular glass panels wrap Knight Center at the University of Oregon
Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has carved a barrel-vaulted tunnel through a brick home in Toronto designed to evoke the architecture of ancient Rome. More about Vaulted tunnel runs through brick house by Batay-Csorba Architects
Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects clad this Texas performing arts venue in reflective metal panels with horizontal stripes that recall rocky canyons. More about Diamond Schmitt covers Buddy Holly Hall in gleaming facade
American architecture office Studio Gang has unveiled plans for a hotel in Denver with a white facade punctuated with window openings designed to recall the bark of a tree. More about Studio Gang reveals design for hotel with scalloped facade in Denver
Dezeen promotion: facade manufacturer Equitone is holding a competition to celebrate the launch of the new dark grey colour for its Tectiva material collection. More about Equitone offers £10,000 Paul Cadden commission to celebrate Graphite cladding launch