The first and only built project by the late experimental architect Lebbeus Woods is the Light Pavilion, one of of three large-scale installations at Steven Holl's recently completed Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow). More about The Light Pavilion by Lebbeus Woods with Christoph a. Kumpusch
Spanish collective Grupo IUT built a tower of straw bales on the outskirts of Guimarães in Portugal (+ slideshow). More about Agricultural Mountain by Grupo IUT
New York practice Cooper Joseph Studio was inspired by Mexican beach huts to insert four pyramidal chimneys behind the concrete exterior of this playground pavilion in Dallas, Texas (+ slideshow). More about Webb Chapel Park Pavilion by Cooper Joseph Studio
Design Miami: New York studio Snarkitecture has hidden the Design Miami collectors fair behind a facade of inflatable sausages (+ slideshow). More about Drift by Snarkitecture
This bone-like tower of concrete by Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein is one of nine architectural interventions along La Ruta del Peregrino, a 72-mile pilgrimage through the mountain landscape of Jalisco, Mexico (+ slideshow). More about Ruta del Peregrino: Cerro del Obispo Lookout Point by Christ & Gantenbein
Visitors to this installation in northern Denmark by German artist Thilo Frank are invited to walk through a contorted loop of timber while listening to the sounds of their voices and footsteps played back to them (+ slideshow). More about EKKO by Thilo Frank
While OMA is busy finalising designs for a new home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the arts organisation has temporarily moved into a pavilion with cardboard columns by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (+ slideshow). More about Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture by Shigeru Ban
The students and tutor of an architecture workshop in Ljubljana have built a wedge-shaped wooden pavilion containing a tiny pool of water and logs acting as stepping stones. More about Water Temple Student Workshop by Kieran Donnellan and MEDS students
Visitors to this temporary theatre in the Netherlands designed by TAAT perform their own play by reading from wooden cubes based on Buddhist prayer wheels. More about Khor I temporary theatre by TAAT
As Peter Zumthor has this week been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture, here's another chance to watch the movie interview Dezeen filmed with him last summer, in which he told us "I'm a passionate architect and I think it's a beautiful profession." Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money" - Peter Zumthor
A timber tunnel shaped like a snake - with a bulge to suggest an ingested mouse - provides perfect conditions for growing lilies on a farm in the Western Cape of South Africa. More about Puff Adder at Babylonstoren by Patrice Taravella and Terry de Waal
This woodland observatory by architecture collective CLP Architectes is a patchwork of square wooden panels and windows. More about L'Observatoire by CLP Architectes
This pavilion by Beijing studio Vector Architects is used to wash and prepare crops during the harvest at a farm in rural China (+ slideshow). More about Harvest Pavilion by Vector Architects
German architects HENN have created a streamlined pavilion with a curled-over steel roof for car brand Porsche at the Autostadt theme park in Wolfsburg (+ slideshow). More about Porsche Pavilion by HENN
Architects Swatt Miers have suspended three glass pavilions over the edge of a valley in northern California (+ slideshow). More about Tea Houses by Swatt Miers
Narrow slits provide entrances to this circular pavilion by Belgian artist Wesley Meuris outside the Flemish town of Borgloon. More about Memento by Wesley Meuris
This doughnut-shaped pavilion by Scottish artist Aeneas Wilder offers visitors a view across the landscape of Limburg, Belgium, from behind a ring of wooden slats (+ slideshow). More about Untitled #158 by Aeneas Wilder
The 2012 Olympic games begin today and this latticed timber hut on stilts by Hackney architects Studio Weave now marks the direct route from the City of London to the Olympic Park. More about Paleys upon Pilers by Studio Weave
Dezeen Wire: British architect David Adjaye and American artist Doug Aitken have revealed designs for a bitumen-coated pavilion that will be constructed at the Tate Liverpool gallery this autumn. More about Pavilion for Tate Liverpool by David Adjaye and Doug Aitken
The charred exterior of this temporary pavilion in Bergen, Norway, references 16 major fires that have taken place in the city since the twelfth century. More about The Bergen Safe House by Max Rink, Rachel Griffin and Simon de Jong