News: more than half of employees prefer a private work space, while open-plan office workers often experience too many distractions to work effectively, according to new data. More about Open-plan office designs unpopular with workers and can damage productivity
A grid of muted copper frames the large windows of this slender office building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield for a park-side site in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield's Moganshan Road office building features an all-copper facade
Inside Festival 2014: architect Clive Wilkinson explains why his studio arranged a New York office around a huge looping desk in our next movie from this year's Inside Festival. More about Clive Wilkinson's office for The Barbarian Group is "one huge table through a room"
German architecture office Wurm + Wurm has transformed a derelict industrial building into offices, featuring a concrete facade punctuated by rows of hexagonal openings (+ slideshow). More about Hexagonal windows pattern the facade of German office building by Wurm + Wurm
A three-lane running track weaves around this office for a football app company, designed by architects TKEZ, leading to goals for penalty shootouts during work breaks (+ slideshow). More about Onefootball HQ by TKEZ features turfed meeting rooms and a running track
Rectangular voids in the projecting timber decks of this beauty salon and office building in Japan by Osaka studio Hamada Design frame foliage that grows from a bed on the ground floor (+ slideshow). More about A tree grows up through voids in Hamada Design's Glass + Wood building
News: Danish studio COBE has unveiled its designs for an extension to the Red Cross headquarters in Copenhagen, comprising a large triangular structure that rises up from the ground at an angle to meet the existing building. More about COBE reveals competition-winning Volunteer House design for Danish Red Cross
News: the first tenants have moved into offices in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's newly opened One World Trade Center in New York (+ slideshow). More about One World Trade Center welcomes first occupants
Sheets of translucent corrugated plastic reveal the timber framework of this photography studio in Japan by FT Architects, which also features an angular white roof (+ slideshow). More about Photography studio by FT Architects features corrugated plastic walls and a faceted roof
Workspaces are differentiated from circulation space by sections of contrasting monochrome paintwork in this Perth studio designed and occupied by Australian firm Post- (+ slideshow). More about "Workspaces are white, passages are black" at Post-'s self-designed architecture studio
Powerhouse Company has remodelled the lower floors of a 1980s office block in Rotterdam to create a marble-lined foyer and dining space designed to emulate a hotel lobby (+ slideshow). More about Powerhouse Company remodels office foyer in marble and dark wood to resemble a hotel lobby
News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plans to redevelop the Basel campus of Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche, adding a 205-metre-high tower and a research centre (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron unveils Basel campus redesign for Roche healthcare
Chinese architect Li Xiaodong, the recipient of the inaugural Moriyama Prize, completed this building with an elaborate brickwork facade to create offices and dormitories at a building site in Zhejiang Province (+ slideshow). More about Criss-crossing bricks give a perforated facade to mountainside building by Li Xiaodong
Alexander Fehre used aluminium-mesh partitions and metal light fittings to suggest an industrial aesthetic in this showroom and office for a conveyor-belt company in Germany (+ slideshow). More about Alexander Fehre designs industrial-style office for a German conveyor-belt manufacturer
"Megalomaniacal ambition" inspired the design for this huge, glossy table by Clive Wilkinson Architects, which rises and falls in a loop around a New York office, framing wood-lined nooks and corridors beneath its surface (+ slideshow). More about Clive Wilkinson creates 330-metre-long "super-table" for Barbarian Group offices
News: MVRDV and fellow Rotterdam studio MorePlatz have been selected to create a pair of dockside office blocks in Mainz, Germany, with designs for buildings featuring zigzagging profiles. More about MVRDV's zigzagging buildings come top in Mainz basin contest
Warsaw studio MFRMGR has subdivided this office space in Poland to create individual workspaces for employees within wooden cabins designed to look like a "mini-town" (+ slideshow). More about MFRMGR creates house-like cubicles with windows inside a Polish office
A freestanding concrete staircase spirals between the floors of this timber-frame and stone building remodelled by the founders of A1 Architects to form their own home and studio in Prague (+ slideshow). More about Charred-timber extension by A1 Architects transforms an old cottage into a home and studio
World Architecture Festival 2014: Singapore's creative industries are moving out of the central business district to more affordable light-industrial areas, says architect Colin Seah, who has recently completed a layered workplace building in the Pasir Panjang neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about Ministry of Design's 100PP joins a wave of "edgy and interesting" buildings for Singapore creatives
The top floor of this former Soviet telecommunications building in the centre of Moscow has been converted by studio Archiproba into an open plan office for a technology company (+ slideshow). More about Archiproba transforms 1920s telecommunications building into offices in Moscow