Milan Expo 2015: a pair of sinuous rippled concrete walls frame the entrance to UAE's Milan Expo pavilion, designed by Foster + Partners to suit the climate conditions in both Milan and Abu Dhabi. More about Foster + Partners presents rippled concrete Expo pavilion for the United Arab Emirates
Milan Expo 2015: behind the wooden walls of Austria's national pavilion, a team led by architect Klaus K Loenhart has planted enough trees to provide a source of oxygen for up to 1,800 people (+ slideshow). More about Austria's Milan Expo pavilion contains a forest filled with clouds of mist
Milan Expo 2015: Daniel Libeskind has completed his dragon-inspired pavilion at the Milan Expo, which features a sinuous body and a scaly red and gold skin (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Libeskind unveils his "handcrafted dragon" at the Milan Expo
Milan Expo 2015: huge mechanical arms are spray painting colourful data across the walls of this pavilion and supermarket that Italian architect Carlo Ratti has created at the Milan Expo 2015, which opens today (+ slideshow). More about Carlo Ratti creates a digital supermarket at the Milan Expo 2015
Milan Expo 2015: the Milan Expo has opened its doors to the public today, with over 9 million tickets already sold (+ slideshow). More about Milan Expo 2015 opens to the public
An abandoned house in a small South Korean town has been converted into a cafe by Seoul-based studio Wise Architecture, with a bamboo frame erected around it to provide a terrace for customers (+ slideshow). More about Wise Architecture dismantles a 300-year-old house and resurrects it as a cafe
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More about Tokujin Yoshioka installs glass tea house beside an ancient Japanese temple
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Denton Corker Marshall's recently completed Venice Biennale pavilion will be transformed into a swimming pool for next year's architecture exhibition. More about Australian Pavilion to become a swimming pool for Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Architects Anton Pramstrahler and Alex Niederkofler have unveiled their proposal for a wooden viewing tower near Bruneck, northern Italy, with a twisted body shaped like a tree trunk (+ movie). More about Twisting observation tower could be built in a northern Italian forest
Scraps of rubber tyres create a shaggy coat around this narrow tower created by architecture students Matt Ritani and Declan Burn on a countryside sculpture trail in New Zealand. More about Belly of the Beast is a hillside folly with a scruffy coat made from old tyres
Milan Expo 2015: the first photographs of Wolfgang Buttress' UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan have emerged, revealing that its structure is now complete (+ slideshow). More about First images of the UK's beehive-inspired Milan Expo pavilion released
Architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled the new pavilion Australia will now use for its exhibitions – an austere black box looming over a canal (+ slideshow). More about Denton Corker Marshall's "mysterious black box" is Australia's new Venice biennale pavilion
When visitors step inside this viewing tower on the coastline of Lincolnshire, England, an inner chamber tilts forward so the nearby beach becomes visible through a pair of aligned horizontal slots (+ slideshow). More about Angular seaside tower by Gruff and MSA contains a viewing platform that moves underfoot
The mirrored glass surface of this park pavilion in Edmonton, Canada, helps the structure merge with its surroundings during the day and glow from within at night (+ slideshow) More about Drum-like pavilion by GH3 creates a glowing presence in a Canadian city park
Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano have revealed their proposal for the 15th Serpentine Pavilion in London – a "chrysalis-like" structure made from colourful see-through plastic. More about SelgasCano unveils first images of colourful 2015 Serpentine Pavilion design
Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow). More about Designers convert lifeguard towers into winter pavilions for Toronto's frozen beaches
A cafe in a cross-shaped tent, a mirrored hideaway and a pop-up art gallery are among the shelters that architects have dotted along a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada (+ slideshow). More about Warming Huts provide shelter for ice-skaters on Winnipeg's frozen river
Intended to encourage more austere worship for Buddhists, this stone shelter in a Vietnam city park was designed by a21studio – the firm behind the 2014 World Building of the Year (+ slideshow). More about Stone canopy by a21studio forms monastic pagoda in a Vietnam park
These two glass and steel pavilions erected by architecture collective De Kort Van Schaik Van Noten in the gardens of a disused presbytery form a community hall and youth club for a Belgian village (+ slideshow). More about Glazed pavilions form a community centre in the grounds of an old Flemish manse
Gianni Botsford Architects worked with translucent concrete to create this boxy garden pavilion in Zurich, dedicated to "the old fashioned art of smoking" (+ slideshow). More about Smoking Room by Gianni Botsford Architects is a translucent-concrete garden folly