News: Arizona architect Nick Tsontakis has unveiled plans for a house that will straddle a mountain and be shaped like a manta ray (+ slideshow). More about Manta ray-shaped house set to straddle an Arizona mountain
This brick courtyard house by Auckland studio Glamuzina Paterson Architects sits at the foot of a mountain in New Zealand's Otago region (+ slideshow). More about Lake Hawea Courtyard House by Glamuzina Paterson Architects
News: a Chinese businessman who built a house covered by an artificial mountain on top of a 26-storey apartment block in Beijing has been told to remove it or face having it demolished. More about Man ordered to remove fake mountain villa on top of Chinese tower
Zaha Hadid has revealed images of her addition to the Messner Mountain Museum, a string of buildings dotted through the Dolomites of northern Italy. More about Messner Mountain Museum Corones by Zaha Hadid Architects
This cafe by Harris Butt Architecture is perched on the edge of an active volcano in New Zealand's oldest national park (+ slideshow). More about Knoll Ridge Cafe by Harris Butt Architecture
Slideshow: a swimming pool, spa, cinema and games room will be hidden in the rock beneath the main cluster of buildings at this Norwegian hunting lodge and hotel by London architects Haptic. More about Mountain Lodge on Sognefjorden by Haptic
Climbers in the Alps can now spend their nights sleeping in a tube that cantilevers over the edge of a mountain. More about New Refuge Gervasutti by LEAPfactory
A forest of timber columns and a stone fireplace feign a woodland campsite inside a visitor centre at the Rocky Mountains. More about Grand Teton Discovery and Visitor Centre by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
A triangulated glass and steel restaurant sits beside a river in a remote forested gorge in southern China. More about Tianmen Mountain Restaurant by Liu Chongxiao
Canadian firm Sturgess Architecture has designed a glass viewing platform to cantilever over a glacial valley in the Columbian Icefields of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. More about Brewster's Discovery Walkway by Sturgess Architecture
Berlin architects J Mayer H have completed this airport building in the medieval mountain town of Mestia, Georgia. More about Mestia Airport by J Mayer H
Geneva studio clavienrossier created this home in the Swiss Alps by adding two tinted concrete volumes atop the remains of a stone house and adjacent barn. More about Charrat Transformation by clavienrossier
Architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales added this steeply-pitched roof to an old dry stone construction in the Spanish Pyrenees to form two homes. More about House in the Pyrenees by Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Norwegian architectural firm Kristin Jarmund Architects have completed a new building for the Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Live from Dubai: OMA just sent us a few more images of the proposed Jebel al Jais Mountain Resort in Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. More about Jebel al Jais Mountain Resort by OMA 2
Live from Dubai: here are some images of Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort - a tourist village on a mountain in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah designed by Rem Koolhaas of Office for Metropolitan Architecture. More about Jebel al Jais Mountain Resort by OMA