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
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
New York firm SO-IL has completed this low rise yet high-density affordable housing development in León, Mexico, with apartments arranged around courtyards. More about SO-IL builds Las Americas affordable housing development in Mexico
Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed a student housing block in a suburb of Chandigarh, featuring brightly coloured surfaces and columns that reference the architecture of pioneering modernist Le Corbusier. More about Charged Voids completes Chandigarh student housing informed by Le Corbusier
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has unveiled its Van B residential building in Munich, which will have plug-in furniture modules so that its apartments can be reconfigured. More about UNStudio designs Munich apartment block with reconfigurable interiors
Vladimir Radutny Architects has created an apartment block at 2016 W Rice in Chicago that is clad in corrugated steel cladding broken by terraces. More about Vladimir Radutny Architects wraps Chicago housing block in corrugated steel
The Royal Institute of Britsh Architects has criticised the British government for its "naive" decision to only fund the removal of Grenfell-style cladding on housing over a certain height. More about RIBA "frankly shocked" by limit of £3.5 billion cladding-removal plan
New York architecture studio Young & Ayata and Mexico City office Michan Architecture collaborated on DL1310, an apartment block with an exposed concrete facade. More about Windows punctuate board-marked concrete facade of DL1310 in Mexico City
Architecture firm ODA has completed a residential building in Brooklyn with a facade formed of irregularly stacked boxes made of concrete and glass. More about Irregularly stacked cubes form exterior of ODA apartment building in Dumbo
Pollard Thomas Edwards has completed a 300-home development in northeast London, comprising two low-rise courtyard blocks and three towers clad in contrasting bands of brown and ivory panels. More about Streamlined "Smart Deco" towers provide focal point for Pollard Thomas Edwards' Motion development
A rooftop walkway will form the main circulation route for the Student Residence Development at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which Zaha Hadid Architects and Leigh & Orange are developing in Clear Water Bay. More about Zaha Hadid Architects designs student housing topped with rooftop walkway in Hong Kong
A narrow site in Ljubljana has become home to The Double Brick House, a pair of matching family residences designed by Slovenian office Arhitektura. More about Arhitektura builds two six-metre-wide family homes
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features founder of The Modern House Albert Hill's claims that the coronavirus pandemic has reversed the trend for open-plan living. More about Predictions on how coronavirus will affect open-plan living feature in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter