News: an appeals court has blocked the SANAA-designed renovation of iconic former department store La Samaritaine in Paris, which includes a wavy glass facade that critics have compared to a shower curtain. More about French court revokes planning permission for SANAA's La Samaritaine revival
News: British architecture studio Caruso St John has won a competition to restore and expand one of Sweden's most significant 20th century buildings – the Stockholm City Library by Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. More about Caruso St John to "restructure" Asplund's Stockholm City Library
News: Michael Graves' seminal Portland Public Services Building will be spared from demolition, despite being described as a "white elephant" and requiring an estimated $95 million for renovation. More about Postmodern Portland Building will be saved, says architect Michael Graves
Rows of irregularly shaped bricks will create patterns around these three towers that architecture graduate Olivia Wright has designed to transform a derelict and vandalised pottery factory in the English midlands into a conservation centre. More about RCA graduate Olivia Wright to convert vandalised bottle kilns into pottery preservation centre
News: after a quarter of a century of decay, a full design team has been appointed to convert the Brutalist ruins of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, into a major venue for art and culture. More about Brutalist seminary to be resurrected in 2015 after 25 years of neglect
News: international heritage body UNESCO has launched a competition to design a cultural centre on the boundary of the Bamiyan Valley site, which housed two giant seventh-century statues of Buddha that were destroyed by Taliban militants in 2001. More about UNESCO launches competition to design cultural centre in war-torn Afghanistan
News: Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi have pledged support to a campaign to prevent the "barbaric" part-demolition of a school by Austrian Modernist architect Helmut Richter. More about Hadid, Holl and Gehry join fight to save "masterpiece" school by Helmut Richter
News: the Turkish government has approved an order to demolish a series of new skyscrapers in the Zeytinburnu area of Istanbul to protect the historic views of key buildings including the Hagia Sofia. More about Istanbul skyscrapers to be demolished to protect the city's skyline
News: a preservation order has been placed on Moscow's iconic Shukhov Radio Tower preventing its demolition, following a high-profile appeal by architects including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas and Elizabeth Diller. More about Moscow's Shukhov Tower saved from demolition
News: an office building designed by Frank Gehry in the 1970s will this week reopen as a Whole Foods Market, following an extensive renovation that involved removing one of the floors. More about Early Frank Gehry office to reopen as a Whole Foods supermarket
News: preservationists have proposed a system of hydraulic jacks that could safeguard Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House from flood damage by lifting it into the air. More about Hydraulic jacks could protect Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House from flood danger
News: architects including Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, Kengo Kuma, Thom Mayne and Elizabeth Diller have launched an urgent appeal to Russian president Vladimir Putin to halt demolition of Moscow's iconic Shukhov Radio Tower. More about Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas and Kengo Kuma join fight to save Moscow's Shukhov Tower
News: the David Adjaye-designed Wakefield Market Hall in Yorkshire, England, is facing demolition just six years after opening, following news the local council wants to sell the building to a developer and replace it with a cinema. More about David Adjaye's Yorkshire market hall faces demolition
News: Michael Graves' seminal postmodern work the Portland Public Services Building is under threat of demolition, following news that the 32-year-old building needs more than $95 million worth of repairs. More about Michael Graves' Portland Building faces threat of demolition
News: the Williams and Tsien-designed former American Folk Art Museum in New York will be demolished just 13 years after it was built to make room for an extension to the neighbouring Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), despite an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics. More about Demolition "only option" for New York's folk art museum says MoMA director
News: the brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, has been safeguarded from demolition after being declared a Grade II-listed historic building by the UK government. More about Preston Bus Station protected from demolition
News: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to reconsider its decision to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum next door following an outcry from architects, conservationists and critics. More about MoMA pulls back from plan to raze former folk art museum
News: the iconic 1920s Moscow home of Russian avant-garde architect Konstantin Melnikov is showing signs of serious structural damage as work continues on a large complex next door, warn heritage experts and international architects including Rem Koolhaas and Álvaro Siza. More about Melnikov House at risk of collapse, warn architects and heritage experts
News: the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to raze the former American Folk Art Museum next door just 12 years after its completion by US architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. More about MoMA to demolish Williams and Tsien folk art museum
News: a house in New Jersey designed in 1954 by the influential American architect Frank Lloyd Wright could be sold and moved as far away as Italy in order to save it from flood damage. More about Frank Lloyd Wright house could be shipped from US to Italy