Architecture office Approach Design has transformed a former police station in Beijing into an office building enclosed by a steel framework that functions as a multipurpose urban park called TMT Folding Park. More about Approach Design turns Beijing police station into office building with multi-storey park
In the face of climate change, Britain's lawned parks should be replaced with urban forests to help control city temperatures and keep green spaces green during hot summers, writes Phineas Harper. More about "Grassy parks are no longer viable in the face of global heating"
London studio Bell Phillips has completed a timber pavilion in a park in Elephant & Castle featuring an elevated viewing gallery nestled among the boughs of a mature plane tree. More about Bell Phillips creates The Tree House pavilion at London's Elephant Park
Wooden slats wrap around indoor and outdoor gathering spaces for an angular pavilion in Winnipeg's Crescent Drive Park that can be "submerged without decay" during floods. More about Public City Architecture creates Winnipeg pavilion to withstand flood conditions
Artists, architects and designers, including SO-IL, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and Roman and Williams, have created numerous birdhouses as part of the For the Birds installation at The Brooklyn Botanic Garden. More about Architects and designers create 33 conceptual birdhouses for Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Mexican studio Quintanilla Arquitectos has created the Cárdenas sports complex and skate park in the town of Cañales, which contains a pair of sports courts covered by a concrete structure. More about Quintanilla Arquitectos creates shaded sports complex in Mexican town
San Antonio-based firm Overland Partners has released plans for a binational border park between Mexico and the United States that will be built along the Rio Grande. More about Overland Partners designs binational park "as a prototype for border cities"
Portuguese practice KWY.studio worked with artist studio Superflex and local schoolchildren to create this series of five pink marble play sculptures in Billund, Denmark. More about "Whimsical" marble play sculptures erected in Denmark
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed Eleftheria Square, a public park that runs alongside the historic Venetian Walls of Nicosia, Cyprus. More about Zaha Hadid Architects creates multi-level city park in Cyprus' capital
A disused power plant and its neglected surroundings in Shenzhen, China, have been transformed into a wetland park masterplanned by Hong Kong-based landscape studio eLandscript. More about eLandscript converts industrial site in China into an urban wetland
ECG International Landscape Consultants has transformed the site of a derelict sugar factory in Pingtung City, Taiwan, into a public park that retains fragments of the existing industrial infrastructure. More about Heito 1909 is a landscaped park on the site of a former sugar factory
Italian architect Benedetto Camerana and landscape designer Il Giardino Segreto have created a rooftop garden called La Pista 500 on the rooftop test track at Lingotto, Fiat's iconic former car factory in Turin. More about Benedetto Camerana adds garden with 40,000 plants to the rooftop test track at Fiat's former Lingotto factory
Children can play, hide and climb inside a series of sculptural spheres in a playground in Vårbergstoppen, Stockholm designed by Swedish architecture studio AndrénFogelström. More about AndrénFogelström installs sculptural spheres in Stockholm park
Professional basketball player Kofi Josephs and Birmingham graffiti artist Zuke have given a basketball court in Summerfield Park, Birmingham, a colourful refresh. More about Summerfield Park basketball court updated with colourful mural and geometric patterns
London studio Twelve Architects has revealed its plan to transform the disused Castlefield Viaduct in Manchester into a "green oasis" reminiscent of New York City's High Line. More about Twelve Architects unveils plan for elevated park in Manchester
Railyard is a colourful public park by Chicago-based practice Ross Barney Architects straddling the railway line running through the city of Rogers in Arkansas. More about Ross Barney Architects designs public park for city in Arkansas
Orca is a mixed-use development in Toronto designed by Safdie Architects that will have nine interconnected residential towers alongside a park that will be built over a railway. More about Safdie Architects designs interconnected housing blocks alongside park over train tracks
The elevated topography of Little Island was designed to create a sense of escape from Manhattan, according to designer Thomas Heatherwick in this interview with Dezeen. More about Little Island designed to create "the feeling of leaving Manhattan behind" says Thomas Heatherwick
New York's Hudson River Park Trust has begun construction on Gansevoort Peninsula, a riverfront park by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations that will be home to Manhattan's first public beach. More about Gansevoort Peninsula by James Corner Field Operations will feature Manhattan's first beach
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the Little Island park and performance venue in New York City and sharing their views on other top stories. More about Commenter responds to Little Island park by saying "London dodged a bullet"