Movie: architect Piers Gough of CZWG and structural engineer Hanif Kara explain their design for Canada Water Library, a bronzed, hexagonal building on a constrained site in south London, in this movie by filmmakers Living Projects. More
Google's new London headquarters by designers Penson features Union Jack flags, balcony gardens and allotments where staff can grow vegetables (+ slideshow). More
The 2012 Olympic games begin today and this latticed timber hut on stilts by Hackney architects Studio Weave now marks the direct route from the City of London to the Olympic Park. More
Dezeen Wire: British architect David Adjaye and American artist Doug Aitken have revealed designs for a bitumen-coated pavilion that will be constructed at the Tate Liverpool gallery this autumn. More
Perforated steel doors fold open like the wings of a butterfly at the backstreet entrance to this London house by architects Teatum+Teatum. More
Hackney designer Lee Broom has filled a room in a London mansion with studded furniture to host visting business leaders during the Olympic games. More
These hand-drawn illustrations by Hackney design studio Something & Son explain the designs for a temporary spa that opens tomorrow in Barking, east London. More
The OMA-designed headquarters for the Rothschild Bank in London is one of the six buildings shortlisted for the 2012 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). More
London studio David Kohn Architects has created an arts venue in a former sweet factory on the edge of the Olympic Park. More
Here are some photographs of the recently completed Coca-Cola Beatbox, a pavilion in the London 2012 Olympic Park that can be played like a musical instrument (+ slideshow). More
Architects Herzog & de Meuron have uncovered three underground concrete tanks at the Tate Modern gallery in London to create new spaces for art and performance, which open this week (+ slideshow). More
The surrounding countryside is projected onto the ceiling of this reed-covered tower that Hudson Architects and artist Ben Coode-Adams have installed in a field in Norfolk, England. More
Dezeen Wire: work finally starts this week on architect Denton Corker Marshall's design for a new visitor centre at Stonehenge, a prehistoric stone circle in England, after years of wrangling and delay, English Heritage has announced (+ slideshow). More
Architects AL_A have been granted permission to construct a subterranean gallery beneath a new entrance courtyard at the V&A museum in London (+ slideshow). More
Another pop-up project built of shipping containers: architects Softroom have built a temporary Mexican restaurant outside the Southbank Centre in London (+ slideshow). More
These London townhouses by architects Piercy & Company have chunky banisters formed from thickly layered birch plywood. More
A kilometre-long cable car designed by British architects Wilkinson Eyre has opened today over the River Thames in London. More
Hoxton architects Edgley Design have tucked a rubber-clad residence and aluminium artist's studio behind a row of semi-detached houses in Hackney. More
Here are the first images of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that New York architect Steven Holl is designing for St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. More
Here are some photographs of the Stanton Williams-designed Hackney Marshes Centre, which provides facilities for London's amateur football leagues and won an RIBA award last week. More