Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center by Kengo Kuma and Associates
This visitor centre in Tokyo by Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Associates looks like a stack of smaller buildings with sloping roofs. More
This visitor centre in Tokyo by Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Associates looks like a stack of smaller buildings with sloping roofs. More
The faceted buildings of this community centre look like meteorites that have landed in a rural village in southern Austria (+ slideshow). More
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design a sports complex in Ethiopia, which will include an excavated football stadium surrounded by earth stands. More
Slideshow: Spain's economy may be in tatters but that hasn't stopped it opening a raft of impressive public buildings in towns, cities and even remote villages over the past year. Amid bailouts and claims that extravagant architectural projects have helped cause the problems, here's a celebration of more modest projects from Spain such as museums, town halls, markets, auditoriums, bridges and even railway control centres featured on Dezeen recently. More
The shooting galleries for the London 2012 Olympic games are covered in spots that look the suckers of an octopus' tentacles. More
Madrid studios Mi5 Arquitectos and PKMN Architectures have built a half-submerged culture and leisure centre in the middle of a public square in Teruel, Spain (+ slideshow). More
Slideshow: architect Frank Gehry has inserted a theatre into the base of tower in New York City (photographs by James Ewing/OTTO). More
Slideshow: a layer of perforated aluminium cloaks the bright yellow and green exterior of this Shanghai youth centre by Chinese firm Atelier Deshaus. More
Slideshow: granite bleachers climb the exterior of this sports centre in Portugal by architects Barbosa & Guimarães, while a cantilevered, rusted-steel cafe looms over its entrance (photographs by José Campos). More
When asked to draw up plans for a cycle-hire shop in southern China, Dutch studio NL Architects thought it would be fun to put a velodrome on the roof. More
Slideshow feature: this week marks the completion of the gigantic red ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture at the London 2012 Olympic park. The tower is the last of the permanent structures to be completed for this summer's games, so here's a roundup of them all including sports venues by the likes of Zaha Hadid and Populous. More
Construction of the controversial 115 metre-high sculpture that artist Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond designed for the London 2012 Olympic Park is now complete. More
Slideshow: these ridged metal walls enclose the facilities of an outdoor swimming pool that Spanish firm Arquitecturia have just completed in the town of Tortosa. More
The restoration of historic tea clipper the Cutty Sark in London by Grimshaw architects has been derided by architecture critics and conservation experts after being officially reopened by the Queen yesterday. Here's a round up of what people are saying. More
Designed in Hackney: next up in our Hackney design showcase is a conservatory with a five fingered roof that Shoreditch architects Spacelab installed at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2004. More
Slideshow: a rainbow of coloured panels extend up from a concrete base to form the walls of this sports hall in A Coruña. More
Architects TYIN Tegnestue of Norway have taken an empty slot in a dense residential area of Bangkok and worked with the local community to build a climbing frame and basketball court. More
Spanish architects MedioMundo have completed a bright red multimedia centre amongst a collection of towering apartment blocks in Seville. More
Light permeates this civic hall designed by Magén Arquitectos in southern Spain through blocks of alabaster in the facade. More
The two storeys that London architects Project Orange have added to the roof of a redundant brick warehouse in Sheffield look like another building stacked on top. More