Safdie Architects has oriented a medical centre in Brazil around a massive atrium with a glass ceiling that was designed to evoke "the feeling of being under a tree canopy". More about Safdie Architects vaults glass atrium over indoor garden at São Paulo medical centre
Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed two buildings on the Manhattanville campus of Columbia University's School of Business in New York City. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates pair of Columbia Business School buildings with "layer-cake design"
London-based architecture firm Tonkin Liu has revealed its plans for a family of fritted-glass skyscrapers, which will be arranged around a central plaza in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. More about Tonkin Liu reveals tapering tower complex for Zhengzhou
Canadian studios KPMB Architects and HCMA Architecture + Design have completed an alumni centre for the University of British Columbia with angled, fritted-glass facades that "change dramatically from day to night" (+ slideshow). More about Vancouver university building by KPMB and HCMA features fritted glass and rough-sawn cedar
Los Angeles architecture firm wHY has completed an expansion of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, featuring facades of fritted glass and corrugated metal panels. More about WHY expands Louisville's Speed Art Museum with a corrugated metal facade
Snøhetta has completed a student centre for Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, featuring chamfered edges and a patterned glass facade (+ slideshow). More about Fritted glass creates patterned facade for Ryerson University student centre by Snøhetta
The windows of this art gallery in South Korea's Paju district are fritted with a pattern that regulates views of the interior, and creates the illusion of fog around the edges of the building (+ slideshow). More about White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
Krueck + Sexton Architects has designed a glazed office building in the Florida everglades for the FBI, using restored wetlands to create "a beautiful moat" for security (+ slideshow). More about Krueck + Sexton surrounds the FBI's South Florida headquarters with a natural moat
Gianni Botsford Architects has added a subtle extension to a London townhouse, which is partly submerged in the garden and has transparent walls to help camouflage it from sight (+ slideshow). More about Gianni Botsford sinks "invisible" extension into the garden of a London house
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed a water-traffic control centre in the town of Maasbracht with a curved glass upper storey that offers panoramic views over the surrounding waterways (+ slideshow). More about Rounded glass facades improve views from Wiel Arets' water-traffic control centre
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects applied an intricate fritting technique to the glazed facade of this office complex in Zurich to give it the appearance of onyx marble (+ slideshow). More about Allianz Headquarters by Wiel Arets features glass fritted to reference Mies' Barcelona Pavilion
Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed an academic campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district comprising six concrete and glass buildings with subtle surface patterns designed to resemble ivy (+ slideshow). More about Wiel Arets completes college campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district
A collection of vintage Aston Martins can be glimpsed through the fritted glass facade of this house in Maastricht, the Netherlands, by Dutch studio Wiel Arets Architects. More about Wiel Arets completes a glazed house for a vintage car collector
Architecture studio Snøhetta of Oslo and New York has revealed designs for a community library in Queens, New York, with a shimmering golden exterior and a triangular entrance at one corner. More about Far Rockaway Branch Library by Snøhetta
Architecture firm Snøhetta has completed a library at North Carolina State University that features a robotic book retrieval system and a 3D printing workshop (+ slideshow). More about James B. Hunt Jr. Library by Snøhetta
This shop and office complex by Dutch architects MVRDV is disguised as an old farmhouse, but its walls and roof are actually made from glass. More about Glass Farm by MVRDV
Mexican firms Shine Architecture and TA Arquitectura have converted an unused building at the Monterrey Institute of Technology's León campus into a 24-hour studio for art and design students (+ slideshow). More about Talleres de Diseño by Shine Architecture and TA Arquitectura
This art museum by architect Renzo Piano straddles a canal in Oslo's harbour (+ slideshow). More about Astrup Fearnley Museet by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Slideshow: this glass pavilion on the edge of a lake in Ontario, Canada, houses a studio, apartment and boathouse for a photographer and was designed by Toronto Studio GH3. More about Photographer's Studio over a boat house on Stoney Lake by GH3
American architects Richard Meier & Partners have unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City. More about Mitikah Office Tower by Richard Meier & Partners