Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a city near China's Liuzhou, featuring towers completely covered in trees and plants to combat air pollution. More about Stefano Boeri designs "vertical forest" city to eat up China's smog
France, Austria and Norway are to become home to the world's tallest wooden buildings according to a new report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which has found Europe to be leading the timber construction movement. More about Europe at forefront of timber construction finds CTBUH report
The Wilshire Grand Center, America's tallest building west of the Mississippi River, has officially opened in Los Angeles. More about LA's tallest skyscraper opens
Architecture studio Hollwich Kushner has remodelled New York's art-deco buildings, including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, to show what the iconic landmarks might look like if built today. More about Hollwich Kushner reimagines New York's art-deco landmarks
New images have been released of Shigeru Ban's Terrace House, a 19-storey residential tower for Vancouver that will boast a pioneering hybrid structure of wood, concrete and steel. More about Shigeru Ban reveals new details of "world's tallest hybrid timber structure" for Vancouver
The skyscraper that replaced the Twin Towers represents a missed chance to create great architecture, according to New York hotelier Ian Schrager. More about Freedom Tower is a "missed opportunity" says Ian Schrager
Moscow-based studio Meganom has been tapped to design its first US project – a slender, 305-metre residential skyscraper planned for Midtown Manhattan. More about Skinny supertall tower by Meganom unveiled for New York
Amsterdam-based studio Concrete has completed an apartment tower across from Manhattan that features a range of unusual amenities, including a "creative lab", and a residency program for scientists and artists. More about Dutch firm Concrete completes tallest residential skyscraper in New Jersey
British duo Hufton + Crow visited Bangkok to capture these images of Thailand's tallest tower, which was designed by Ole Scheeren and features modular cutaways spiralling around its facades. More about Ole Scheeren's pixelated MahaNakhon tower photographed by Hufton + Crow
Early renderings have emerged of The Wall Street Tower, a 61-storey skyscraper designed by British architect David Adjaye for Downtown Manhattan. More about Images of New York skyscraper by David Adjaye leaked
A skyscraper 3D prints modular homes and dispenses them like a vending machine in the latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative video series. More about Pod Vending Machine concept by Haseef Rafiei tackles housing demand by printing modular homes
New images by photographer Edmon Leong offer a first look at the nearly completed glass volumes of MAD's Chaoyang Park Plaza – a commercial and residential complex based on rock formations in Beijing. More about MAD's mountain-shaped tower complex nears completion in Beijing
Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has stacked offset volumes that contain a hotel and office spaces to form a tower in Guadalajara. More about Angled louvres shade glass skyscraper in Guadalajara by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More about Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees
OMA's trouser-shaped CCTV tower and Herzog & de Meuron's Bird's Nest stadium feature in this photo series by Kris Provoost, which documents the "weird architecture" China has tried to ban. More about Kris Provoost photographs the most flamboyant architecture of China's building boom
US firm Goettsch Partners has completed a glass skyscraper with a compact footprint, which responds to its placement next to active train tracks and the Chicago River. More about Riverside office tower in Chicago by Goettsch Partners rises from sharply tapered base
Skidmore Owings & Merrill has unveiled its vision for One Bangkok: a new district in the centre of the Thai city made up of a family skyscrapers interspersed with green spaces. More about SOM reveals designs for 16-hectare "vertical village" in central Bangkok
This conceptual scheme by designers Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee calls for using vacant airspace over existing New York buildings to create affordable apartments and public areas. More about Modular affordable housing envisioned for "abandoned" New York airspace
Polish designers Pawel Lipiński and Mateusz Frankowski have envisioned a conceptual high-rise building that would act as a vertical farm, able to be disassembled and moved to different locations across sub-Saharan Africa. More about Modular farm tower for sites across Africa wins international skyscraper competition
A transparent portion of a swimming pool atop a high-rise development in Houston, Texas, projects outward so brave residents can view both the skyline in front and the ground 40 storeys below. More about Glass-bottomed Sky Pool suspends swimmers 500 feet above Houston