Angular steel roof tops Princeton Transit Hall by Studio Rick Joy
Thin sheets of metal cover a waiting area and a convenience store at this train station in Princeton, New Jersey, by American firm Studio Rick Joy. More
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Dermot Horgan imagines personal data bank at centre of future Amsterdam neighbourhood
TU Delft graduate Dermot Horgan has created a concept for a neighbourhood that would be built around a publicly accessible data bank, to make the topic of personal information central to society. More
Renzo Piano volunteers to design "beautiful" new bridge for Genoa
Italian architect Renzo Piano has offered to design a structure to replace the collapsed Ponte Morandi bridge in his hometown of Genoa. More
"New York's new prisons will be more than just places of incarceration"
New York's plans for replacing Rikers Island jail will require input from design's brightest minds if the buildings are to integrate with their neighbourhoods, and conditions for inmates and staff are to improve, says Aaron Betsky. More
Sean Cassidy proposes first seed vault in Sub-Saharan Africa for site on Mount Kilimanjaro
A subterranean seed bank could be built into the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, says Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduate Sean Cassidy, to ensure food crops can be regrown after an apocalypse. More
Fate of Foster's Mexico City airport left to public vote
Mexico's next president has called a referendum so the public can decide whether to continue the construction of the capital's major new airport, designed by Norman Foster and Fernando Romero. More
Ponte Morandi bridge collapses in Genoa during storm
A motorway bridge built in the 1960s has collapsed during heavy rainfall in Genoa, Italy, killing at least 37 people. More
Natasha Marks envisions neighbourhoods built under Seoul following reunification of Korea
Vast underground neighbourhoods are built to house an influx of migrants into Seoul, following the reunification of North and South Korea, in this conceptual proposal by Bartlett graduate Natasha Marks. More
Two giant hands hold up Golden Bridge in Vietnam
A curved golden bridge held up by two giant hands, designed by TA Landscape Architecture, has opened to the public near Da Nang in central Vietnam. More
Ribbon-like platform roofs stretch over Grimshaw's redesigned London Bridge station
Grimshaw has completed a £1 billion refurbishment of the 19th century London Bridge station next to the Shard, covering its rearranged platforms with sinuous grey canopies. More
Pelli Clarke Pelli's Salesforce Transit Center opens in San Francisco
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' vast transit hub in downtown San Francisco will eventually connect 11 regional, state and national public transport modes, and is topped with a public park. More
Pedro Geraldes creates concrete control centre overlooking Portuguese dam
A gabled concrete shell that references local vernacular buildings forms a protective surface enclosing this control building at a hydroelectric station in central Portugal. More
Amsterdam opens new metro line with seven stations by Benthem Crouwel Architects
Benthem Crouwel Architects has designed seven new metro stations for the new Noord/Zuidlijn line through Amsterdam, which opened this week. More
Joseph Mercer suggests creating more "feral" London green belt
Royal College of Art graduate Joseph Mercer has proposed building Netherlands-style greenhouses on London's green belt to intensify food production and allow farmland to be returned to a wilder natural state. More
David Chipperfield Architects completes pink visitor centre and chapel at Inagawa Cemetery
A pink pigmented concrete building designed by David Chipperfield's studio for a cemetery in the Japanese town of Inagawa has been captured in photographs by Edmund Sumner. More
Miami parking facility Museum Garage combines several exterior designs
Five architecture studios have contributed facades to this parking garage in Miami Design District, resulting in a mash-up of bold eclectic styles. More
JBAD repurposes shipping container as MicroTower parking attendant booth
This bright red tower in Columbus, Ohio, is constructed from a shipping container turned vertically and serves as a booth for a parking attendant. More
Elon Musk's Chicago tunnel will link downtown and airport in 12 minutes
Elon Musk's infrastructure firm The Boring Company has revealed plans to bring its super-fast tunnel system to Chicago, where "autonomous electric skates" travelling up to 150 miles per hour will link the city's Downtown area with O'Hare Airport. More
Brutalist Preston Bus Station refurbished by John Puttick Associates
John Puttick Associates has completed the renovation of the Grade II-listed brutalist bus station in Preston, in the north of England. More
Boris Johnson backs £15 billion post-Brexit bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland
UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson has given his support to another bridge project, this time spanning 14 miles of the Irish Sea. More