The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed five possible designs for a youth centre that will form part of the £23 million redevelopment of Preston's Brutalist bus station, which was recently saved from demolition (+ slideshow). More
Swiss firm Markus Schietsch Architekten has completed a new elephant house for a zoo in Zurich featuring an elaborate wooden gridshell roof and a glass-sided swimming pool (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid's controversial plans for the 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo have been scrapped. More
This steeply slanted platform by architects John Lin and Olivier Ottervaere forms a roadside market and elevated viewing point for a Chinese town being rebuilt after two earthquakes (+ slideshow). More
The city council of St Petersburg, Florida, has signed off the demolition of a historic pier and approved plans for its replacement – a hybrid pier and park designed by New York studio Rogers Partners. More
A layer of glass louvres wraps this Paris sports centre by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes, forming a semi-transparent facade that controls the amount of light, heat and ventilation entering the building (+ slideshow). More
This beachside cafe and toilet block by French studio Link Architectes is built into a grassy bank by the Loire River near Saint-Étienne, France (+ slideshow). More
Snøhetta has unveiled plans to build the first official market building in Portland, Oregon, for over 70 years. More
Graduate shows 2015: students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design have designed and built a seaside sauna made up of three wooden bands that stagger up over the rocky terrain (+ slideshow). More
Walls made from compressed earth combine with timber-clad surfaces and glass to help this visitor centre for the Swiss Ornithological Institute complement its natural setting on the banks of a lake (+ slideshow). More
The perforated metal facade of this community enterprise building in Sheffield, England, was designed by Architecture 00 to eventually become a framework for climbing plants (+ slideshow). More
This Vietnam community centre by architecture studio 1+2>3 features bamboo roofs thatched with coconut leaves, which pitch inwards to direct rainwater towards a series of planted courtyards (+ slideshow). More
Castanheira & Bastai Arquitectos conceived this horse-riding centre in northern Portugal as a group of four connected house-shaped structures with sloping walls and exposed timber frameworks (+ slideshow). More
M-Arquitectos has upgraded a popular thermal bathing attraction on Portugal's São Miguel Island with a new timber-clad visitors' centre and a pair of stone-lined pools (+ slideshow). More
This McDonald's restaurant featuring a perforated golden facade and a grand spiral staircase was designed by Dutch firm Mei Architects to replace "the ugliest building in Rotterdam" (+ slideshow). More
A stainless-steel slide curls down through the interior of this elevated playhouse, which is topped by a crow's nest offering views over New York's Hudson River Valley (+ slideshow). More
Herzog & de Meuron has completed a monumental new stadium in Bordeaux framed by 900 slim white columns, one of the key venues for next year's Euro football championship (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid has completed her second major project for Chinese developer Soho China – a trio of curved towers designed to look like giant pebbles (+ slideshow). More
British architect Guy Hollaway has unveiled plans for the "world's first" purpose-built multi-storey skatepark, which he says will help prevent young people from moving away from a sleepy British seaside town (+ slideshow). More
BIG has completed its second addition to a school in Denmark – an art school beneath a football field that joins the underground gymnasium with a humped courtyard on its roof (+ slideshow). More