Steve Rose: The cross-Thames cable car is a pleasure ride more than a piece of transport, Barking Bath House brings things back down to Earth, and 4 World Trade Center finally tops out

Steve Rose: Ahead of the Olympics, the London Festival of Architecture transforms East End dockland into a giant pleasure garden; and it's Dame on for Zaha Hadid

Steve Rose: Architecture celebrates the world's greenest buildings, the Swiss are on a roll with their revamped Kunsthalle Zurich, and it's the end of the road for Glasgow's Red Road flats

Steve Rose: Ray Bradbury was not only a visionary writer – he was also an architectural 'imagineer' who influenced some key urban trends. Plus, a shardier Shard and Shakespeare's Curtain theatre

Steve Rose: Dagenham Park School shows Michael Gove that the BSF scheme deserved a future, tragedy strikes a shopping centre in Qatar, and architects pump culture into a former petrol station

Steve Rose: Size isn't everything ... Norman Foster has the biggest practice in Britain, but is he as powerful as David Chipperfield? And in Cannes, Kanye West premieres a short film in a big pyramid

Steve Rose: The ruined castle that was home to Lady Jane Grey hits the holiday market, Rem Koolhaas's TV colossus opens for propaganda, and some Dutch architects blow bubbles

Steve Rose: Santiago Calatrava comes under fire over Valencia's City of the Arts and Sciences, Zaha Hadid's Maxxi gallery faces closure, but Rem Koolhaas's star keeps rising ... as far as The Simpsons

Steve Rose: The FAT collective get their teeth into Middlesbrough, and the master builders of the animal kingdom receive their due. Remain calm: it's your weekly dispatch from the architectural world

Steve Rose: A new proposal aims to save Battersea Power Station, the Metropolitan Arts Centre opens in Belfast and Avengers Assemble shows how not to do architecture

Steve Rose: Ikea brings Stockholm-style living to Stratford, a beehive library lands in Worcester and architecture finally meets LOLCats

Steve Rose: The Titanic launches a thousand museums from Belfast to Southampton, the Baltic gallery expands for its 10th birthday and a 15th-century national treasure reopens in Middlesex

It was a good week for women architects – except for the most famous one – while the British design exhibition reveals a couple of gems

Steve Rose: Sir Christopher Wren may have once been on the £50 note, but his St Bride's Church is in dire need of funding for a restoration. Meanwhile, Maidstone Museum gets blinged up

Steve Rose: Paris is full of tall talk as Norman Foster delivers his designs for two new skyscrapers, while the Enzo Ferrari Museum is unveiled in Modena and Aberdeen votes on 'Teletubby Park'

Steve Rose: Aberdeen locals to vote on 'Teletubby Park', the people of Poole welcome a second harbour bridge, a new Hopkins home is a long time coming, and the Pritzker prize finds a new star

Steve Rose: A closer look at a cutting-edge cafe in Japan may leave you spluttering into your coffee, Lego aims for the high notes and eggs from outer space land for Fabergé's Big Egg Hunt

Steve Rose: Artist Damien Hirst plans to build 500 eco-homes, RIBA puts 250 years of housing on display and the notorious Heygate estate is transformed from urban film location into romcom residence

Steve Rose: Moby sings the praises of strange LA architecture, Ai Weiwei prepares to make a splash at the Serpentine pavilion, and there's a towering new board game in town

Camelot comes to Cockfosters (maybe), Frank Gehry's Signature Theatre opens and the World Trade Centre site struggles with a design flaw