A Solar Biennale exhibition has opened at the EPFL Campus in Lausanne, Switzerland, showcasing architecture designed to harness light, heat or power from the sun. More about Sun Shines on Architecture exhibition celebrates solar buildings from across history
The second edition of the Solar Biennale has opened at Mudac in Lausanne, Switzerland. Exhibits include an artificial sun canopy, orbiting solar panels and a time capsule for plants. More about Solar Biennale explores how the sun can "transform the world and generate new worlds"
Slender grey brick walls protrude from the front of fine arts museum Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga created in the Lausanne city centre. More about Barozzi Veiga designs Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne with ridged brick facade
Designers and students have paid tribute to Pierre Keller, the graphic artist and former director of Swiss design school Ecal, who died of liver cancer on 7 July. More about Pierre Keller, former director of Ecal and an "extraordinary force of nature", dies aged 74
Copenhagen studio 3XN has completed Olympic House, a new headquarters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. More about 3XN builds new headquarters for the Olympics on shore of Lake Geneva
Swiss practice Bureau Brisson Architectes has reconfigured this large family home overlooking terraced vineyards in Lausanne into three apartments. More about Bureau Brisson Architectes refresh hilltop villa in Lausanne
The concrete facade of this housing block in Lausanne, Switzerland, features four different surface finishes to create a patchwork effect that hints at the building's complicated internal layout (+ slideshow). More about 2b Architectes creates patchwork facade for concrete apartment block in Lausanne
This concrete footbridge spans a road in Lausanne, Switzerland, to connect a metro station with the scenic Sauvabelin Forest (+ slideshow). More about Faceted concrete bridge by 2b Architectes links a metro station with a forest
News: Danish firm 3XN has shown the first images of its design for the new headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. More about 3XN reveals "dynamic, undulating" design for Swiss Olympic headquarters
News: Danish firm 3XN has been selected as preferred architect to design a new headquarters for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland. More about 3XN chosen to design new Swiss headquarters for the Olympics
Unfinished concrete surfaces and wire-fencing balustrades give an industrial aesthetic to the interiors of this apartment building in Lausanne, Switzerland, by local studio Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects (+ slideshow). More about Apartment Building in Chailly by Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects
A ring of shelves encloses a padded reading room at this bookshop by designers Kawamura-Ganjavian and architects NOR. More about Librairie La Fontaine by Kawamura-Ganjavian and NOR architectes
Lausanne studio 2b Architectes have renovated a 16th century tower in Echandens, Switzerland, by inserting a three-storey larch box. More about La Tour Moinat by 2b Architectes
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his series of the Rolex Learning Centre in Switzerland, designed by Japanese architects SANAA. More about Rolex Learning Centre by SANAA
The Rolex Learning Center, a university study centre by Japanese architects SANAA, opens in Lausanne, Switzerland next week. More about Rolex Learning Center by SANAA