Zaha Hadid has created a seven-storey office block in Moscow for the city's growing IT and creative sectors, with off-set floor plates and a dramatic black-and-white atrium (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid completes Moscow office block with jutting floors and monochromatic atrium
This museum by architects Sergei Tchoban and Agniya Sterligova contains a single room inside a silo-like structure in a Russian potato field (+ slideshow). More about Farming tools line clay walls in Museum of Rural Labor by Sergei Tchoban and Agniya Sterligova
Russian artist Nikolay Polissky has transformed a dilapidated building in the village of Zvizzhi into a pavilion covered in pieces of timber, which he described as "a sculpture you can walk through" (+ slideshow). More about Nikolay Polissky's SELPO pavilion is covered in thousands of wood offcuts
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has won a competition to design an education campus in Irkutsk, Russia, which the firm described as "a new kind of school" (+ slideshow). More about CEBRA wins international competition to design Smart School in Russia
The polycarbonate-clad Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA, has opened in a refurbished Soviet-era restaurant in Moscow's Gorky Park (+ slideshow). More about Garage Museum of Contemporary Art by OMA opens in Moscow
Opinion: Stalinist Russia turned its military parades into architecture, creating a peculiar form of pomp that still resonates in modern Moscow and emphasises the city's inequalities, finds Owen Hatherley. More about "This spectacle of power was an inversion of the socialist city"
The blocks of colour that make up both the Microsoft logo and the Windows 8 interface formed the basis of this temporary pavilion in Russia, created for the technology giant by architecture studio Nowadays (+ slideshow). More about Microsoft Technology Pavilion takes its cues from the Windows 8 interface
Milan Expo 2015: the entrance to the Russian national pavilion at this year's World Expo will be sheltered beneath a 30-metre-long cantilevered canopy that visitors can walk on (+ slideshow). More about Sergei Tchoban designs 30-metre-long cantilever for Russia's Milan Expo pavilion
News: the World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize for preservation of a modern landmark has been given to a Finnish committee responsible for restoring architect Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia (+ slideshow). More about Restoration of Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library wins 2014 Modernism Prize
The top floor of this former Soviet telecommunications building in the centre of Moscow has been converted by studio Archiproba into an open plan office for a technology company (+ slideshow). More about Archiproba transforms 1920s telecommunications building into offices in Moscow
A mezzanine hammock, an adaptable seating cube on wheels, and a combined staircase and bookshelf have been added to this play and study space for a brother and sister, designed by Russian studio Ruetemple (+ slideshow). More about Mobile furniture and giant hammocks allow work and play inside a Russian home
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
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the Russian Pavilion at the biennale is dressed up as a trade fair, where 20 fictional companies present examples of modern Russian architecture as products and concepts for sale (+ slideshow). More about Strelka transforms Russian Pavilion into a trade fair of architectural ideas
News: Dutch firm MVRDV has won a contest to overhaul a 58-hectare steel factory in Moscow, described as "a stronghold during the Russian revolution", to create a major new city quarter offering homes, offices, schools and a hospital (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV chosen to transform Moscow's Hammer and Sickle factory into housing
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
Brightly coloured pods resembling submarines contain meeting rooms at the new Moscow office for internet company Yandex by Russian studio Za Bor Architects (+ slideshow). More about Za Bor Architects adds submarine-like meeting rooms to Yandex's Moscow office
Shimmering golden panels clad the monumental folded ceilings of this new airport terminal in St Petersburg designed by London studio Grimshaw (+ slideshow). More about Grimshaw completes St Petersburg airport with folded golden ceilings
The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games get underway this Friday with an opening ceremony inside a Fabergé egg-inspired stadium by sports architecture firm Populous. More about Sochi Winter Olympics commence inside Populous-designed stadium
Russian studio Wowhaus has transformed a four-lane highway beside Moscow's Moskva River into the city's first year-round park, featuring rows of trees, fountains, cafes and artists' studios (+ slideshow). More about Wowhaus converts a Moscow road into a riverside park
Over 170,000 visitors to this year's Sochi Winter Olympics will be able to have their faces scanned and recreated on the facade of a building as part of an installation by London designer Asif Khan. More about Asif Khan designs a "Mount Rushmore of the digital age" for the Sochi Winter Olympics