Architecture studio MVRDV has completed the Ilot Queyries housing development in Bordeaux, France, which folds around a large red courtyard. More about MVRDV slots red-walled courtyard into irregularly shaped French housing
UK-studio Tsuruta Architects has completed a housing project in south London called The Queen of Catford, which features thousands of cat faces and a pair of blue heritage plaques dedicated to fictional characters. More about Tsuruta Architects incorporates 27,000 cat faces into five homes in Catford
An offset stack of concrete volumes forms this small apartment building on Costa Rica's lush Pacific coast, by local architecture firm VOID. More about Tropical vegetation surrounds VOID's Guarumo concrete getaway in Costa Rica
Riparia Architecture Studio has completed an apartment building in a Mexican resort town that consists of three volumes, one of which has a large screen and "opens like a fan towards the jungle." More about Riparia creates concrete Kokonut building in the Yucatán Peninsula
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has co-founded a housing design company named Nabr that aims to create a range of affordable, modular homes. More about Bjarke Ingels launches company to "reimagine the way we build our homes"
Ismail Solehudin Architecture has designed a red metal and brick boarding house in Indonesia where the stairs serve as both a corridor and a light-filled social space. More about Ismail Solehudin Architecture builds bright red Indonesian boarding house
Architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill has been chosen to design a mass-timber Olympic Village with "minimal environmental impact" for the 2026 winter Olympics hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. More about SOM to design athletes' village in Porta Romana for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games
Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used biomaterials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. More about Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris
UK department store John Lewis has revealed its plans to become a residential landlord by converting its own shop car parks into rental housing across the UK. More about John Lewis to repurpose car parks to create 10,000 homes
Architecture firm BBOA has completed a government-backed housing scheme in Argentina featuring irregular residential blocks clad with pale pink bricks. More about Pink brick clads Baigorria housing project in Argentina by BBOA
The UK needs to drastically improve its "poorly insulated, draughty" homes if it is to eradicate its carbon emissions, according to Hayden Wood, CEO of renewable energy supplier Bulb. More about Poor-quality housing is "the number one thing holding the UK back" says Bulb CEO
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to turn the site of a decommissioned power plant on the San Francisco waterfront into a mixed-use development. More about Foster + Partners designs buildings for Dogpatch Power Station in San Francisco
Mexican firm CPDA Arquitectos has completed a residential building that features a stone-clad exterior and a lush courtyard that is not visible from the street. More about CPDA incorporates "secret garden" into Mexico City apartment building
Tokyo studio Key Operation has completed an apartment building in Yokohama covered with thin concrete panels that create a random pattern of light and shadow across the facades. More about Key Operation clads Kannai Blade Residence with narrow concrete fins
British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a two-tower housing scheme in Croydon, south London, which the studio says is the world’s tallest residential modular building. More about HTA Design builds "world's tallest modular housing scheme" in Croydon
American architecture firm LOHA has completed a housing block with cedar cladding and a stepped form in a once-rundown Detroit neighbourhood that is undergoing redevelopment. More about LOHA clads John R 2660 apartment building in Detroit with cedar
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is a development of 103 micro homes designed by Lehrer Architects to provide homeless housing in Los Angeles. More about Lehrer Architects builds colourful village of micro homes for Los Angeles homeless
Staggered apartments and semi-enclosed play areas animate the exterior of The Aya, a short-term housing block in Washington DC by US firms Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly. More about Emergency housing block in Washington DC has four "uniquely different" facades
Architecture office Woods Bagot has covered an apartment block in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighbourhood with a green wall that climbs up five floors. More about Green wall grows five storeys up San Francisco apartment block
Architecture firm LOHA has incorporated terraces and covered balconies into a black-and-white student housing building that occupies an entire city block in West Los Angeles. More about LOHA creates Westgate1515 student apartment complex in Los Angeles