Stories by Amy Frearson
Abandoned buildings can be converted into homes with modular kitchen and bathroom block
London’s skyscraper boom continues with 119 new towers in the pipeline
J Mayer H and Fernando Romero launch designs for prefabricated houses
Weston Williamson designs “kissing towers” for Hong Kong harbour
Ole Scheeren’s “carved” MahaNakhon skyscraper scheduled to complete this year
BIG designs “Habitat 2.0” for Toronto
Narrow São Paulo house rebuilt for an elderly resident by Terra e Tuma
Melbourne house by Austin Maynard is deliberately half the size of its neighbours
Aravena rounds up architecture’s biggest names for Venice Biennale 2016
Architects have no moral obligation to society says Alejandro Aravena
SelgasCano creates London bookstore promoting “a return to physical material things”
Studio Octopi adds plywood-lined loft extension to RCA professor’s house
ShedKM and Urban Splash let residents design layouts for modular Manchester homes
Muf adapts former cargo boat to create floating arts centre for women
Liddicoat & Goldhill transforms an 18th-century barn into an English countryside home
London car park of “sublime beauty” at risk of demolition
Flower Kindergarten by Jungmin Nam features curvy classrooms and colourful corridors
Carlo Ratti designs mile-high observation tower with a park on top
Serpentine Summer Houses include looping wooden pavilion and inverted replica building
Bjarke Ingels’ Serpentine Gallery Pavilion conceived as an “unzipped wall”
Spark unveils plans for colourful beach huts built from recycled ocean plastic
Tokyo university students create “drawn-in-place” architecture using a 3D-printing pen