Zaha Hadid's 142-metre tower for French shipping company CMA CGM in Marseille is documented in these new images by London photographers Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). More about CMA CGM Headquarters by Zaha Hadid photographed by Hufton + Crow
Shimmering steel panels chequer the facade of this office building at an aluminium plant outside Buenos Aires by Argentinean architects Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden. More about Industrial Pavilion Hydro Aluminium by Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden
Clean white walls contrast with the stripped-back columns and beams of these offices inside a former factory in Turin (+ slideshow). More about Sempla offices by DAP Studio
A mysterious dark tunnel leads into the boardroom of these offices in London by architects Studio Octopi (+ slideshow). More about 18 Feet & Rising offices by Studio Octopi
Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob calls for an end to the "tyranny of fun" in office design. More about "Offices designed as fun palaces are fundamentally sinister"
Walls, shelves and desks are all made from piles of modular blocks at this office in Paris by French studio h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). More about Hypernuit Offices by h2o Architectes
News: Google has teamed up with global architecture firm NBBJ to design a new 100,000-square-metre campus for San Francisco Bay, California. More about Google reveals plans for vast new California campus
Google's new Tel Aviv headquarters include a meeting area filled with orange trees, workstations on a make-believe beach and slides connecting different floors (+ slideshow). More about Google Tel Aviv by Camenzind Evolution
Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel will curate an exhibition of office spaces in Milan in April, presenting a range of scenarios to replace the "grey cultural world" of purpose-built offices (+ interview). More about "Apartments make better places to work than offices" - Jean Nouvel
Dutch architecture firm Groosman Partners has suspended an office complex beneath the eight-metre-high ceiling of a former industrial machine hall in Rotterdam (+ slideshow). More about RDM Innovation Deck by Groosman Partners
News: Rem Koolhaas' OMA has won a competition to design a financial office tower in Shenzhen, China, the firm's second building in the city after the soon-to-complete Shenzhen Stock Exchange. More about OMA wins competition for second Shenzhen skyscraper
Italian studio Park Associati has overhauled a 1960s office block in Milan and added new glass and burnished aluminium facades (+ slideshow). More about La Serenissima office refurbishment by Park Associati
A perforated plastic skin casts spotty shadow patterns onto the facade of this office building in Albacete, Spain, by Cor & Asociados (+ slideshow). More about Confederation of Employers of Albacete headquarters by Cor & Asociados
Pint glasses of beer provided the inspiration for this cluster of tower blocks underway in Qingdao, China, by architects RTA-Office. More about Nanjing Road mixed use area by RTA-Office
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
Pools of water separate offices from archives at a new building for the National Archives of France by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (+ slideshow). More about New National Archives of France by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
A tapered concrete roof oversails glazed laboratories at this research and innovation centre that American firm Richard Meier & Partners has completed for Italian cement manufacturer Italcementi. More about Italcementi i.lab by Richard Meier & Partners
Adobe employees can play basketball and ping pong inside the software company's new mural-covered Utah campus by San Francisco-based designers Rapt Studio (+ movie). More about Adobe Utah campus by Rapt Studio
The angled columns of an earthquake-proof structure frame a series of window slits on the exterior of this Tokyo research laboratory by KINO Architects (+ slideshow). More about Spiralab by KINO Architects
These conceptual office units by American designer Victor Vetterlein are designed to be bought up by companies and sent out to employees' back gardens so they can work from home. More about MOSS office for working from home by Victor Vetterlein