A team featuring JDS Architects has created a waterfront recreation area for the Danish seaside town of Faaborg where swimming areas sit between piers and decked surfaces curve up over small buildings (+ slideshow). More about Sloped decking creates waterfront slides at Faaborg Harbour Bath
Danish restaurant Noma commissioned Polyform Architects to create a landscape based on Nordic terroir to give pilgrims to the world's best restaurant a taste of what's inside, without disturbing diners (+ slideshow). More about Polyform creates a mini Nordic landscape at the world's best restaurant
Lisbon firm Topiaris Landscape Architecture has extended a 700-metre long timber walkway through wild riverside scrubland to connect a new Portuguese public park with a bird observatory (+ movie). More about Riverside park by Topiaris Landscape Architecture features a boardwalk and a bird observatory
Studio Weave has designed a new roof terrace for London College of Fashion's gallery space, adding brightly coloured decking and seats. More about Studio Weave adds colourful herringbone decking to London College of Fashion roof garden
This vertiginous viewing platform in the Canadian Rockies was designed by Calgary firm Sturgess Architecture with a strengthened glass floor that provides a view straight down to the valley below. More about Sturgess Architecture's Glacier Skywalk offers unique views of the Canadian Rockies
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed plans to create a cavernous public park in Abu Dhabi beneath a fragmented canopy resembling the cracked surface of the Arabian desert. More about Thomas Heatherwick unveils "sunken oasis" for Abu Dhabi
This wooden observation platform and pavilion emerges from the landscape of a memorial park in Koknese, Latvia, offering views across the River Daugava (+ slideshow). More about Wooden viewing platform looks out over Latvia's River Daugava
A pavilion with a spiked roof by Australian firm Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects rises above the landscaped site of the new National Arboretum on the outskirts of the Australian capital, Canberra (+ slideshow). More about National Arboretum in Canberra boasts pointed pavilion and curvy visitor centre
News: architects and designers including OMA, BIG and WXY have unveiled proposals to revitalise parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and help protect them against future emergencies. More about OMA and BIG propose transformations for America's hurricane-struck east coast
This wooden pavilion with a protruding canopy was designed by Ramser Schmid Architekten to offer a sheltered outdoor seating area for visitors to the city library in Zug, Switzerland (+ slideshow). More about Wooden pavilion by Ramser Schmid Architekten built beside Swiss library
Landscape architecture firm Martha Schwartz Partners references Bedouin carpets and sand dunes in teardrop-shaped landscaping for a green retreat in the centre of an Abu Dhabi business district (+ slideshow). More about Abu Dhabi plaza by Martha Schwartz Partners features teardrop-shaped landscaping
Faceted four-legged metal structures line the route through this landscaped park in the Chinese city of Chongqing by landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners (+ slideshow). More about Perforated metal pavilions by Martha Schwartz Partners rise above Fengming Mountain Park
The 77 individuals who lost their lives during the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway will be commemorated by this competition-winning intervention by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg to sever a strip of headland from the coastline near Oslo. More about Landscape intervention by Jonas Dahlberg to honour Norwegian terrorist attack victims
Russian studio Wowhaus has transformed a four-lane highway beside Moscow's Moskva River into the city's first year-round park, featuring rows of trees, fountains, cafes and artists' studios (+ slideshow). More about Wowhaus converts a Moscow road into a riverside park
News: architecture firm Snøhetta has concluded the first phase of a major overhaul of New York's Times Square, continuing the initiative started in 2009 to pedestrianise large sections of the popular tourist destination. More about Snøhetta completes phase one of Times Square transformation
French studio TVK has overhauled the Place de la République in Paris to create an even larger pedestrian plaza that includes a new cafe pavilion, water features and over 150 trees (+ slideshow). More about TVK transforms Place de la République into Paris' largest pedestrian square
News: British architect Norman Foster has unveiled a concept to build a network of elevated pathways above London's railways to create safe car-free cycling routes, following 14 cyclist deaths on the city's streets in 2013. More about Norman Foster promotes "cycling utopia" above London's railways
Hungarian art and design collective Szövetség'39 has unveiled a concept to reduce the impact of rising sea levels in the world's delta regions by introducing a modular structure that will cultivate mangrove forests to form natural dams. More about Modular CALTROPe structure reduces impact of rising sea levels by cultivating mangrove forests
News: Dubai has won the bid to host the World Expo 2020 with a masterplan by architects HOK, beating Zaha Hadid's rival proposal for a lagoon-side park in the Turkish city of Izmir (+ slideshow). More about HOK masterplan leads Dubai to Expo 2020 victory
Australian architecture studio Room 11 has created a three-kilometre riverside pathway in Tasmania where brightly coloured boardwalks are punctuated with public pavilions (+ slideshow). More about GASP! by Room 11 is a sequence of riverside pavilions and boardwalks