Architecture
BCQ completes sports hall with translucent polycarbonate skin
Taller Basico de Arquitectura completes House for a Man and a Tree in Spain
SOM recasts old San Francisco movie house for new role as a nonprofit theatre
Gluckman Tang designs museums for art and model trains in western Massachusetts
Encore Heureux uses recycled materials to build Circular Pavilion in Paris
Heatherwick gets go ahead for canal-side shopping centre in London’s King’s Cross
Top-heavy house by Archi LAB designed to minimise snow buildup
Museum of Tomorrow by Santiago Calatrava opens in Rio de Janeiro
Royal College of Art appoints Adrian Lahoud as dean of architecture
Woodland Quebec home by Bourgeois Lechasseur features a facade of wooden tiles
Clive Wilkinson suggests “carpet bombing” London with a co-working office in the sky
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Pont de Singe by Olivier Grossetête
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Sackler Crossing by John Pawson
Wooden home by Yoshichika Takagi features attic bedrooms and a translucent sunroom
“We face calls for safe houses, safe communities and safe spaces”
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Rolling Bridge by Thomas Heatherwick
Splattered paintwork inspired by Jackson Pollock covers concrete music school in France
Go Bang House by Takeru Shoji Architects references traditional Japanese farmhouses
Fránek Architects’ mountainside Sky Walk loops up around a giant slide
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande by Santiago Calatrava
Rural Icelandic cottages by PK Arkitektar have turf roofs and burnt timber cladding
Tree-like columns support roof of Ghent house extension by Atelier Vens Vanbelle
MAD’s sinuous Harbin Opera House completes in north-east China