Dezeen are in Venice for the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 where Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects are exhibiting these houses with sandy floors, photographed by Nelson Garrido. More about Casa Areia by Aires Mateus Architects
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this transparent pool house in Munich, Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer. More about Poolhaus by Baumhauer
Photographer Logan MacDougall Pope has sent us his images of this lakeside retreat in Sri Lanka made using a stray shipping container and timber from weapon boxes. More about Holiday Cabana at Maduru Oya by Damith Premathilake
Here’s another conceptual project from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Yaniv Berg (see his coffee machine in our earlier story), this time a digital SLR camera where the lens and body are merged to form a kinked cylinder. More about Periscope Camera by Yaniv Berg
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this wooden folly with mirrored shutters in the mountains of southern Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer. More about Folly by Baumhauer
Photographer Edmund Sumner has shared with us his photos of this house that cost just $12,000 to build by Matharoo Associates in Ahmadabad, India, featuring shutters weighted with concrete balls. More about The House with Balls by Matharoo Associates
Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photos of this prefabricated house in Cedeira, Spain, by Madrid studio MYCC. More about Prefabricated Nature by MYCC
Stuttgart photographer Zooey Braun has sent us his images of this corrugated house in Bavaria, designed by German firm SoHo Architektur. More about Bru 1.25 by SoHo Architektur
Here are some more photographs of Jean Nouvel's recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London, this time taken by French photographer Julien Lanoo. More about Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Jean Nouvel photographed by Julien Lanoo
German photographer Peter Nitsch has sent us a selection of his latest series of photos, documenting combined businesses and homes in Bangkok, Thailand. More about Shophouses 4 x 8 m Bangkok by Peter Nitsch
Architectural photographer Gerard van Beek shares his photographs of a heating plant in the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bonnema. More about Essent Energy heating plant by Bonnema
Here's another movie by Brazilian architectural photographer Pedro Kok (see yesterday's film of Herzog & de Meuron's VitraHaus), this time of a gallery in Brumadinho, Brazil, designed by Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez. More about Movie by Pedro Kok: Galeria Adriana Varejão by Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez
Here's a movie of the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron in Weil am Rhein, Germany, shot by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok. More about Movie by Pedro Kok: VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron
Photographer Matthew Carbone has sent us his photos of Frank Gehry's latest project, the recently-completed Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. More about Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health by Frank Gehry
Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us his photographs of a centre for rescued turtles, dolphins and birds in Barcelona by Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura. More about CRAM Foundation by Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura
Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of this house in Palmela, Portugal, designed by Eduardo Trigo de Sousa and ComA Architects. More about Miraventos House by Eduardo Trigo de Sousa and ComA Architects
Swiss studio Estragon have designed a camera for Swiss camera manufacturer ALPA. More about ALPA 12 TC camera by Estragon
Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some images of the Mexican pavilion designed by Mexican studio Slot. at Shanghai Expo 2010, taken by Iwan Baan. More about Mexican Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 by Slot.
Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us some images of an auditorium in Vic, Spain, made from a jumble of golden blocks by architect Josep Llinas. More about Auditorium Atlantida by Josep Llinas
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of the Republic of Korea Pavilion at see all out stories about the expo here by Mass Studies. More about Republic of Korea Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Mass Studies