Hampshire studio Ström Architects designed this larch and glass holiday home in the New Forest, England, as a weekend escape for a London-based family. More about Ström Architects creates timber-framed retreat in rural Hampshire
Spheron Architects has completed a small wooden chapel for the Belarusian community of north London to commemorate victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. More about Belarusian Memorial Chapel by Spheron Architects is dedicated to Chernobyl victims
Building work has begun on Kengo Kuma's National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics – the design that was controversially selected to replace Zaha Hadid's competition-winning scheme. More about Construction work starts on Kengo Kuma's Tokyo 2020 Olympics stadium
Coffey Architects has used traditional Japanese design techniques to make the most of space and light in this renovation of a three-metre-wide London mews house – which is in the running for the RIBA's House of the Year prize. More about Coffey Architects references Japanese tea houses in renovated London mews home
This prefabricated timber sports hall has a shed-like appearance that references the form and materiality of vernacular agricultural buildings in the Upper Bavaria region of Germany. More about Wooden trusses pattern walls of prefabricated sports hall by Florian Fischer and Harald Fuchshuber
A young carpenter who wished to build his own residence was the client for this modest project by Atelier l'Abri, located in Quebec's Eastern Townships. More about Atelier l'Abri designs Canadian cabin for carpenter to build himself
UberRaum Architects has added a stepped wooden extension to this mountainside house in Germany's Black Forest, offering its residents views of the surrounding trees and valley. More about UberRaum Architects staggers Cloud Cuckoo House to offer views of Rhine Valley
The blackened-timber facades of this house set in a coastal nature reserve near The Hague are interrupted by carefully positioned openings that frame views of the surrounding forest. More about Charred timber and glass villa by VVKH Architecten is embedded in a sand dune
Seattle-based MW Works has overhauled an early-20th-century barn to create a family holiday home that celebrates rustic materials and fittings. More about MW Works transforms century-old Washington barn into rural family retreat
Trees killed by mountain beetles were used to construct this seven-storey tower in Minneapolis by Michael Green Architecture, which is described by the firm as the first modern tall wood building in the United States. More about Michael Green completes largest mass-timber building in United States
Kamvari Architects has won a contest to design pit stops along the world's longest railway line, by proposing a series of wooden cabins that look like elephants' trunks. More about Elongated cabins by Kamvari Architects to be built along Trans-Siberian Railway
California studio Bureau Spectacular has created a wooden structure on stilts that references the Primitive Hut proposed by philosopher Marc-Antoine Laugier in the 18th century. More about Bureau Spectacular reimagines Laugier's Primitive Hut as "indoor treehouse"
Inside this wooden, prefabricated house in Amsterdam by Marc Koehler Architects, an angular black staircase crisscrosses between split levels. More about Prefabricated house in Amsterdam features wooden walls, zigzagging stairs and split levels
Penda has set this auditorium for a Beijing art museum inside a wooden box, which features arched openings, and mirrors that reflect endless iterations of its curved cutaways. More about Mirrors reflect arched openings and steps inside wooden auditorium by Penda
This monument to seamen by Canadian studio Bourgeois Lechasseur Architects stands on the site of a fish processing plant that was destroyed in a fire. More about Bourgeois Lechasseur erects memorial on fish factory ruins in Quebec
This tiny aluminium-clad cabin by Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti cantilevers over the edge of a mountain on the Slovenian-Italian border. More about Precarious Alpine cabin by OFIS offers shelter to Slovenian climbers
This house in Belgium has been overhauled for a couple of art and book collectors to include a wood-lined living space and plenty of cosy reading nooks. More about Rob Mols and Studio K update Belgian home with wood-lined garden room
Zaha Hadid Architects has been commissioned to design a 5,000-seat stadium built entirely from wood, for the British football club Forest Green Rovers. More about Zaha Hadid Architects to build world's first wooden football stadium
There is only enough room for one person inside this tall skinny pavilion that Chilean studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen has built in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. More about Pezo von Ellrichshausen uses octagonal drums to build skinny tower
These atmospheric renderings reveal designs by Oslo-based Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter for a pair of angular holiday cabins in the Norwegian countryside. More about Reiulf Ramstad designs angular wooden cabins for a Norwegian valley