![Habitat 2.0 by BIG in Toronto](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/bjarke-ingels-group-designs-habitat-2.jpg)
This week, BIG unveiled its Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and planned "Habitat 2.0" for Toronto
This week on Dezeen: Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG released images of its design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016 this week before unveiling plans for a major residential development in downtown Toronto (pictured).
![Via West 57 by BIG](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/via-west-57th-big-new-york-city-manhattan_dezeen_sq.jpg)
BIG also hit the headlines as the firm's New York "courtscraper" prepared to welcome its first group of tenants next month.
![MahaNakhon by Ole Scheeren](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/ole-scheeren-mahanakhon-skyscraper-dezeen_sqa.jpg)
In other architecture news, we reported on the progress of Ole Scheeren's pixelated 314-metre-high skyscraper in Bangkok and China's directive that could put an end to the country's trend for bombastic architecture.
![Berlin's decommissioned Tempelhof Airport](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/berlin-tempelhof_dezeen_sqa.jpg)
Berlin's government announced its intention to extend the refugee camp at the decommissioned Tempelhof Airport in response to the ongoing migrant crisis, while architect Jacques Herzog proclaimed architecture to be a fundamentally humanitarian profession.
![Alex McDowell](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/alex_mcdowell_dezeen_sqb.jpg)
Production designer Alex McDowell, who has worked on films including Minority Report, The Terminal and Man of Steel, described how filmmaking techniques can be applied to refugee-camp design.
![Alejandro Aravena](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/alejandro-aravena-dezeen-sq.jpg)
This year's Venice Biennale curator Alejandro Aravena added his voice to the debate surrounding the refugee crisis by describing socially minded architecture as a choice not a responsibility.
![Venice Architecture Biennale 2016](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/venice-architecture-biennale-2016-dezeen_sq.jpg)
Aravena also announced the star-studded list of contributors for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, which includes Tadao Ando, Peter Zumthor, David Chipperfield and SANAA.
![The Mile observation tower by Carlo Ratti](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/the-mile-2016_observation-tower_carlo-ratti_dezeen_sq.jpg)
Italian architect Carlo Ratti released plans to build a mile-high observation tower in New York, while actress Gwyneth Paltrow enlisted the help of architecture firm Gensler to develop a members-only club in Hollywood.
![The World Trade Center Transportation Hub by Santiago Calatrava](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/santiago-calatrava_world-trade-center-transportation-hub_dezeen_sq.jpg)
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava will open next week in Lower Manhattan, so we published a series of images that were posted by the public to Instagram.
![Virgin Spaceship Unity Reveal](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/virgin-galactic-unveiling-virgin-shapeship-unity-sq.jpg)
In design news, Virgin Galactic unveiled an updated version of its passenger spacecraft and Sou Fujimoto released images of his light installation for fashion brand COS.
![research-students-university-tokyo-invent-drawn-in-place-architecture-system-japan_dezeen_sqa](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/research-students-university-tokyo-invent-drawn-in-place-architecture-system-japan_dezeen_sqa.jpg)
A group of students developed a 3D-printing pen that can be used to create large-scale architectural structures out of plastic sticks and industrial designer Benjamin Hubert explained why he recently shifted his energy away from furniture design.
![Tetra yacht by Schwinge](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/tetra-hyswas-foiling-super-yacht-schwift-tetrahedron_dezeen_sq.jpg)
Popular projects this week on Dezeen included a pyramid-shaped superyacht, Herzog & de Meuron's school of government and public policy at the University of Oxford, England, and a Melbourne house designed deliberately half the size of its neighbours.
![That House by Austin Maynard](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/02/that-house-austin-maynard-architects-melbourne-australia_dezeen_sqd.jpg)
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