The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is working with MIT's D-Lab to develop design strategies that enable refugees to solve their own problems rather than relying on solutions provided by aid agencies (+ interview). More
Dutch designer Maarten Baas' giant Real Time Schiphol timepiece replaces traditional clock hands with a 12-hour-long video performance (+ movie). More
Curving windows peep above the ground to bring light into this underground car park in South Holland, which is covered in grassy hillocks to replicate a dune landscape (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: these simple, wooden blocks designed by Royal College of Art graduate Václav Mlynář's contain a door to a hidden world that can only be unlocked by an iPad (+ movie). More
Chinese firm AIM Architecture sought to strike a balance between modern and Jazz Age Shanghai with this office and showroom for property developer Soho China (+ slideshow). More
US studio James Corner Field Operations has created an installation for the National Building Museum in Washington DC that evokes a glacial landscape, with giant shard-like forms that jut upward and downward (+ slideshow). More
German property developer Bewocon has unveiled plans for a 150-metre-high skyscraper in Berlin, which could become the city's tallest building. More
Brexit crisis: the agencies behind the Remain advertising campaign have shared their unsuccessful designs and described a "frustrating" process that was "doomed" to fail (+ slideshow). More
America may no longer be home to the world's tallest building, but the country that invented skyscrapers is still pioneering their design with skinner, greener and more unusually shaped structures.
We're celebrating this 4 July – US Independence Day – with a look back at some of the most recent examples, including Rafael Viñoly's already iconic 432 Park Avenue and Herzog & de Meuron's "Jenga tower" (pictured). See more US skyscrapers »
Visualisation artist Forbes Massie has exhibited a series of architectural renderings with a painterly rather than photorealistic aesthetic at the Protein Studios gallery in east London (+ slideshow). More
French firm SCAU designed the undulating fibreglass roof of Marseille's football stadium, which is set to host the UEFA Euro 2016 semi-final between France and Germany this Thursday (+ slideshow). More
Brexit crisis: British architects and designers were among tens of thousands of people to protest against a UK exit from the European Union in London on Saturday. More
Over 300 projects, including a Brazilian rainforest house, a spiralling university building in Tenerife and a bulbous blue drawing studio, have been shortlisted for awards at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin this November (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Hyerim Shin's Cuteness Tool for Dachshunds is a conceptual device that lengthens the bodies of sausage dogs. More
At the touch of a button, the chunky marble walls that surround this house in India divide up into spinning and sliding panels, revealing a more lightweight glass facade behind (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: the UK's high-speed railway network could incorporate an underground swimming pool, museum and concert hall, suggests Royal College of Art graduate Ciaran Scannell. More
A book-lined room is concealed behind secret doors in this 17th-century barn conversion carried out by Studio Seilern Architects at an estate in Oxfordshire, England (+ slideshow). More
German designer Konstantin Grcic has created a utilitarian flat-pack office system for Vitra featuring desks that can be turned into sofas (+ slideshow). More
When designing the interior for a newly built apartment in Copenhagen, Studio David Thulstrup used over 300 antiques and bespoke elements to "avoid the usual collection of Scandinavian classics" (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: Bartlett graduate Louise Bjørnskov Schmidt has proposed an ecological education facility that circles a lake within a Panama rainforest (+ slideshow). More