Architecture studio OMA has completed Hangzhou Prism, a mixed-use building in southeastern China with a pyramidal form that incorporates a public square at its base. More about OMA designs pyramidal building in China as "three-dimensional village"
Local studio Montalba Architects has renovated American architect Edward Durrell Stone's Perpetual Savings and Loan Bank building in Los Angeles and added a sunken garden in the building's plaza. More about Montalba Architects adds sunken garden to Edward Durrell Stone landmark
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a giant canopy created by Adjaye Associates and Daniel Boyd for a public plaza in Sydney. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "bold and courageous" canopy by Adjaye Associates
A giant canopy that filters light through circular openings covers this public plaza in Sydney, which Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye's studio has created with artist Daniel Boyd. More about Giant canopy shelters Sydney Plaza by Adjaye Associates and Daniel Boyd
Hundreds of illuminated cords connected to structural arcs make up the Your Voices installation by British artist Es Devlin which aims to reflect the hundreds of languages spoken in New York. More about Es Devlin creates glowing arched stage to showcase "most linguistically diverse city on the planet"
New York office SO-IL and Parisian studio FREAKS have completed the renovation and extension of an 18th-century glass factory in France, adding a sweeping concrete plaza that unites a series of cultural spaces. More about SO-IL and FREAKS extend glass museum in France with sweeping public plaza
This video shows the recently completed Gouna Festival Plaza designed by London-based Studio Seilern Architects in the resort town of El Gouna. More about Drone footage showcases colonnaded Gouna Festival Plaza in Egypt
Architecture studio DSDHA has created the public Exchange Square in the City of London alongside Liverpool Street Station. More about DSDHA creates public square above the tracks of Liverpool Street Station
Architecture firm Rotative Studio has created three colourful temporary pavilions for reading and socialising in the Place du Marché square in Aigle, Switzerland. More about Rotative Studio brightens Swiss town square with modular wooden pavilions
Spanish-Kuwaiti studio AGi Architects has created a pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai that is built around a covered plaza that acts as a place where people can gather. More about AGi Architects arranges Dubai Expo Opportunity Pavilion around covered plaza
Red aluminium slats form an angular canopy atop a structure designed by Italian architecture office UNA2 to shelter part of a public square in the town of Rosignano Marittimo, Italy. More about UNA2 covers Italian public square with bright-red loggia
Dutch studio Casanova + Hernandez has completed a landscaping project in the Albanian village of Shiroka, comprising a waterfront plaza and streetscape that uses granite stones to replicate a traditional carpet pattern. More about Casanova + Hernandez completes patterned public square based on an Albanian carpet
Rectangular openings allow sunlight and rain to enter this multipurpose covered plaza designed by Junya Ishigami for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. More about Junya Ishigami completes covered plaza with sloping floor for Japanese university
Karen Blixens Plads in Copenhagen is an undulating plaza with sheltered parking for over 2,000 bicycles designed by Danish architecture firm COBE. More about COBE's undulating public square in Copenhagen contains parking for 2,000 bikes
Architecture studios COBE and BRUT have been selected to redesign the entrance to the European Union headquarters, with a proposal including a reflective doughnut-shaped canopy. More about COBE and BRUT chosen to create new entrance plaza for EU headquarters in Brussels