Architecture
Hall McKnight’s Victoria Road house spans a steep-sided stream in Northern Ireland
Wide sloping roof shelters plywood-filled house in Kobe by Tomohiro Hata
Concert halls take centre stage on Dezeen’s new Pinterest board
Alentejo Country Hotel features log facades to match the surrounding cork trees
Amagansett Dunes House by Bates Masi Architects is shaded with strips of canvas
Claesson Koivisto Rune unveils new business concept for entrepreneurial designers
British architecture is experiencing a “dull period” says Peter Cook
Modernist Wiltshire house with a Smithsons-designed studio gets a facelift by Coppin Dockray
COBE’s Frederiksvej Kindergarten is based on children’s drawings
Seattle chapel by Hennebery Eddy features walls of rough sandstone and concrete
Bjarke, Rem and Zaha battle to join Sou Fujimoto and SANAA at Budapest museum park
World’s largest waste-to-energy plant proposed for Shenzhen
DANS Architects creates brick “crown” atop Don Bosco Church in Slovenia
Dark Arkitekter adds staircase-inspired tower to Oslo’s fast-developing waterfront
SANAA’s reflective Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 “merged into the landscape”
Square windows puncture Alireza Razavi’s monolithic House for a Photographer in Brittany
RIBA’s Creation from Catastrophe exhibition showcases the world’s best disaster-relief projects
Winners chosen for Alvar Aalto museum extension but told to improve their design
Apple given New York preservation award for repurposing historic buildings
Threefold Architects completes light-filled London home for a pair of objets d’art collectors
Penthouse in BIG’s twisted Miami towers is on sale for $28 million
Royal Gold Medal for Zaha Hadid was “totally overdue” says RIBA president
Robot-built pavilion proposed by Achim Menges for V&A museum courtyard