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Plaster, concrete and shiny steel merge to form the greyscale interiors of this menswear store in Zhengzhou, China, which has been designed by Atelier Tao+C. Read more

King's Cross in London is using facial recognition technology to surveil the tens of thousands of visitors that frequent the site each day, and Canary Wharf is "considering" following suit. Read more

The emblem for the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be a figure-of-eight-shaped white band based on the form of shawls often worn in the gulf region. Read more

Invisible Studio has built a gymnasium for a hotel in Somerset, which is designed as one giant window so that the building has a minimal impact on its garden setting. Read more

Architects Liani and Jan Douglas have transformed a century-old house in Green Point, Cape Town, into a modern home where they can show off their distinctive furniture designs. Read more View the full article

In this Dezeen movie, jury members discuss the winners of the Samsung Mobile Design Competition wallpaper category, which were revealed last month at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Jose, California. Read more View the full article

This year designers created a huge variety of conceptual architecture from 360-degree infinity pools to a bamboo colony on Mars. Semi Han continues our review of 2019 with 10 of the most intriguing concepts. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Waterfrom Design has completed the Tea Community Centre, a multipurpose building in Xiamen, China, that is partially concealed beneath the surface of a pool of water. Read more View the full article

Architects Peter McNeil and Clarissa Nam have built two detached houses on a corner lot in Toronto to live in and use as a rental property. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designer Antoni Arola has designed a lighting system for Spanish brand Santa & Cole, in which strips of light are shaded by curved metal sheets. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architects and designers working across the Middle East and Africa are invited to submit their entries to the 2020 edition of the AHEAD awards. Read more View the full article

Decentralised local manufacturing could replace global supply chains as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to architects who collaborated on an open-source project to make face shields for hospital workers. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Rie Sakamoto replaced yarn with rubber bands for her knitted fashion collection, which aims to showcase this stationary item's overlooked qualities. Read more View the full article

Swedish DJ duo Dirtytwo will perform a live set to round off Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Stockholm Design Week. Watch the broadcast live at 6:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Austrian jewellery artist Petra Zimmermann has captured black silk fabric inside acrylic to create the outsized body of her Vanity Vague ring. Read more View the full article

Architectural photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of a college building designed by Portuguese architect Nuno Montenegro. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the UK government has announced it is abandoning plans to build or refurbish 715 schools and scrapping the Building Schools for the Future programme in a £5 billion cost-cutting drive: Department for Education </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with design show Tent London to offer readers the chance to win ten FREE exhibition spaces at Tent Digital, taking place 23-26 September at the Truman Brewery in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen have teamed up with Brands, UK distributors for Emeco, to offer our readers the chance to win one of three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs made of recycled plastic bottles to celebrate the chair’s UK launch during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Dooa Arquitecturas have completed an extension to a school in Torrevieja, Spain, with a blackboard as a wall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Luxembourg firm Dagli+ Atelier d’Architecture have completed an office located on a rooftop in Dudelange, Luxembourg. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian firm Franz Architekten have completed this football training facility in Vienna for Fußballklub Austria Wien. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This medical research building at the University of California in San Francisco by Rafael Viñoly Architects projects out from a forest hillside, supported on steel truss stems that fan upwards from the ground. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This holiday home in Kanagawa, Japan, by Japanese studios Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan comprises two separate blocks fanning outwards towards Tokyo Bay. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

OMA have won a competition to design a gateway building for Toulouse, France, with a 40,000 square metre column-free exhibition hall. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article