Kengo Kuma beats Toyo Ito to win Japan National Stadium competition
Japanese officials have selected a wooden lattice design by Kengo Kuma for the new National Stadium in Tokyo, which will be the centrepiece for the 2020 Olympics. More
Japanese officials have selected a wooden lattice design by Kengo Kuma for the new National Stadium in Tokyo, which will be the centrepiece for the 2020 Olympics. More
Beijing studio MAD has completed an opera house in the Chinese city of Harbin, featuring an undulating form that wraps two concert halls and a huge public plaza (+ slideshow). More
Footwear brand New Balance has followed Adidas in developing 3D-printed midsoles that could be customised to suit the runner's individual pace. More
This courthouse in northern Palestine, which was commissioned by The United Nations, has chunky stone walls and an ornamental overlay of gold steel (+ slideshow). More
Spanish architect Carles Enrich has built a 20-metre-high elevator next to a Catalan cliffside to connect the old and new parts of a town (+ slideshow). More
A Victorian gas holder has been converted into a park with a circular lawn and a polished steel pavilion as part of the ongoing redevelopment of King's Cross, London. More
World Architecture Festival 2015: the award winners from day two at the World Architecture Festival include a ballet school in Russia, a New York transport hub and a community facility for a flood-wrecked town. More
Visitors can clamber to the top of this pavilion by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Paris' Jardin des Tuileries, which is made up of a complex lattice of identical timber beams. More
Frank Gehry has become the latest architect to design a boat – unveiling an entirely wooden yacht he created for himself. More
Aerospace company Boeing has released a film that demonstrates the properties of what it describes as "the lightest metal ever" (+ movie). More
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: New York firm SO-IL has used off-the-shelf steel studs to produce a canopy structure for a ramp within a historic building in downtown Chicago (+ slideshow). More
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Vietnam-based Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled a third prototype of its low-cost housing design, which is now moving towards mass production (+ slideshow). More
Future Makers: industrial designer Sebastiaan Deviaene explains how he works with digital tools more commonly used by video game developers to create 3D-printed implants for bone reconstruction in this movie. More
Singapore studio Formwerkz Architects took references from traditional Islamic design to create the intricately patterned and moulded surfaces of this mosque (+ slideshow). More
White latticed screens and trailing planting shade the glazed facade of this Vietnam day spa, by MIA Design Studio, from the midday sun (+ slideshow). More
Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has added a wooden lattice to the front of this Rio de Janeiro lighting shop – filtering natural light during the day and creating a glowing facade at night (+ slideshow). More
The Baroque urban planning of Karlsruhe, Germany, influenced the latticed timber structure of this pavilion, created by Berlin studio J Mayer H to celebrate the city's 300th anniversary (+ slideshow). More
Milan Expo 2015: a robot cut all the components used to build France's Expo pavilion – a curved wooden lattice structure designed by XTU Architects to become a trellis for growing vegetables, herbs and hops (+ slideshow). More
The stacked horizontal volumes that make up this house in Jammu, India, are clad in vertical timber battens to regulate the amount of sunlight that enters (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More
A cage-like structure made from strips of mirrored metal and red plastic encases this Seoul office building by South Korean studio Wise Architecture (+ slideshow). More