Belgian photographer Julien Lanoo took these images of the National Theatre of Ghana built in Accra in the early 90s, which features smooth, white volumes elevated above the surrounding streetscape. More about Ghana's "UFO-like" National Theatre photographed by Julien Lanoo
American firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has completed the 555-metre-high Lotte World Tower in Seoul, which is now the tallest building in South Korea and the fifth-tallest building in the world. More about KPF completes South Korea's tallest skyscraper
Two massive voids cut diagonally through this office tower in Hangzhou, China, by JDS Architects to create an arched pathway underneath and a stepped park on top. More about Arched chasms extend through Hangzhou office block by Julien De Smedt
This apartment block and art gallery in Beirut combines traditional timber and stone cladding with a vertical garden and a bright-red balcony that cantilevers from one of its facades. More about Jean-Marc Bonfils reinterprets traditional Lebanese architecture with East Village apartment tower
A chapel by Peter Zumthor, a red brick gallery by Herzog & de Meuron and a São Paulo museum by Linda Bo Bardi are among the subjects of 20 images shortlisted for architecture photograph of the year. More about Arcaid unveils architecture photograph of the year shortlist
NEXT Architects has completed an undulating red footbridge in Changsha, China, that offers pedestrians a variety of different routes across the Dragon King Harbour River. More about Wavy red ribbons form Lucky Knot bridge by NEXT Architects
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has created a concept kitchen where surfaces are precariously balanced over assorted types of kitchenware (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma designs kitchen built from pots, pans, baskets and utensils
Perforated steel mesh wraps this town hall in northwest France by LAN Architecture, creating a skin that changes from opaque to transparent when illuminated at night (+ slideshow). More about LAN Architecture completes French town hall with a perforated metal skin
A team of architects have launched an initiative to build a network of "makerspace" structures at Agbogbloshie, Ghana – the world's largest dumping site for electronic waste (photos by Julien Lanoo + slideshow). More about Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform creates mobile workshops for world's largest e-waste dump
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: the day before Zaha Hadid suffered a fatal heart attack, photographer Julien Lanoo unexpectedly stumbled across her Issam Fares Institute in Beirut, Lebanon, and created a new set of images (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid's first building in the Arab World photographed by Julien Lanoo
An aluminium and glass box sits over a long stone wall to form the facade of this mining heritage centre in the French village of Banca, by Toulouse studio V2S (+ slideshow). More about Mining museum by V2S contrasts a traditional stone wall with a metal box
A translucent skin of wrinkled aluminium covers the walls of this new building for the Strasbourg campus of French architecture school the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Aluminium-clad building by Marc Mimram added to Strasbourg architecture school
This wooden extension to a house in Paris by MIR architectes and Nicolas Hugoo has an angular roofline that frames a window at the front and wraps around a terrace at the rear (+ slideshow). More about Angular wooden extension to a house in Paris by MIR architectes and Nicolas Hugoo
A woodland landscape scene is hidden within a pattern of coloured polka dots on the exterior of this house extension in Moers, Germany, by Düsseldorf studio MCKNHM Architects (+ slideshow). More about CMYK House by MCKNHM Architects
Copper-clad panels behind the glazed facade of this gymnasium by French firm LAN Architecture produce tinted reflections of the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow). More about Gymnasium and Town Hall Esplanade in Chelles by LAN Architecture
Here are the first photographs of Jean Nouvel's Tour Horizons, an office block in Paris that looks like a pile of three separate buildings (+ slideshow). More about Tour Horizons by Jean Nouvel
French architect Emmanuelle Weiss has added a contrasting dark brick extension to a red brick house outside Lille (+ slideshow). More about Maison D by Emmanuelle Weiss
Slideshow feature: these images by French photographer Julien Lanoo document the opening week of the Louvre Lens, the Musée du Louvre's new sister gallery designed by Japanese architects SANAA and New York studio Imrey Culbert. More about Louvre Lens by SANAA and Imrey Culbert photographed by Julien Lanoo
French architects JKA and design studio FUGA have converted a nineteenth century Alpine farmhouse in France into a holiday villa with chunky wooden cladding and cut-outs based on the shadows of other buildings (+ slideshow). More about Villa Solaire by JKA and FUGA
This courtyard house in the south-west of England by architects Studio Octopi integrates flush thresholds and wide doorways as subtly as possible, so that no one would notice it was specifically designed for a resident in a wheelchair (+ slideshow). More about Orchard House by Studio Octopi