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This week Richard Meier & Partners unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City, SOM won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago released a report that revealed a record number of skyscrapers were completed in 2011. Meanwhile Neri&Hu delighted readers with their latest house in Singapore and our most popular story showed visuals of a triangular house to be constructed on a rocky harbourside plot in Sweden. imm cologne is well underway in Germany and you can see all our stories about it here, including a lamp covered in ap…

Designer Martin Papcún and Czech architects Atelier SAD want to immerse an upside-down shell of a house into the ground of St. Jakob’s Square in Munich. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: The Rock, the newest terminal at Wellington International Airport by Warren & Mahoney and Studio Pacific has just been announced as the winner of the transport category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss design studio Big-Game has launched a range of doorknobs and handles inspired by the multi-faceted grip of pencils and handheld tools. (more...) View the full article

The Australian Institute of Architects has awarded John Wardle its 2020 Gold Medal. Here he picks 12 key projects that have defined his career. Read more View the full article

Milan's Mandalaki Design Studio has created a series of lights that cast boldly coloured orbs across walls, ceilings and floors. Read more View the full article

Milan 2015: Danish studio Norm Architects has created a collection of bathroom furnishings and accessories, including a matching wash basin and bathtub perched on slim metal legs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As part of the VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, the singer-songwriter has shared this exclusive preview of From Green to Red, a forthcoming interactive environmental protest installation. Read more View the full article

British sculptor Antony Gormley is among a handful of artists who have collaborated with White Cube gallery to document their life and work in lockdown via Instagram, in a bid to stay connected during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

In week five of Virtual Design Festival we team up with former Archigram members Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton for an exclusive video series, plus our live Screentime interviews feature Rael San Fratello, Standard Architecture, Ben van Berkel and more. Read more View the full article

The rounded forms of this house near Stuttgart by German studio J. Mayer H. conjure up images of a dinosaur's head with big eyes and bared teeth (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Corten steel columns alternate with floor-to-ceiling glass to bring stripes of light and shadow into this funeral home outside Barcelona by Spanish firm Batlle i Riog Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Space: for the last day of our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space, Royal College of Art graduate Sarah Colson creates her own interpretation of an analogue photo booth. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A London exhibition of animated gifs allowed visitors to view artworks via a custom-designed app on a smart phone or tablet using augmented reality. (more...) View the full article

This prefabricated house in Portugal costs about the same price to manufacture as a family car (photographs by José Campos). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Creative studio Production Club has designed a personal protective suit for clubbing in the time of coronavirus, which includes features for phone integration and beverage and vape consumption. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: British architect Richard Rogers has warned that plans by the UK government to simplify planning regulations could lead to unmoderated urban sprawl, “with rust belts and towns joining each other” – Daily Mail He added: “If the framework is not improved it will lead to the breakdown and fragmentation of cities and neighbourhoods as well as the erosion of the countryside.” Rogers’ concerns about the government’s new National Planning Policy Framework are shared by environmental campaigners who say they don’t offer a clear enough definition of sustainable development. Richard Rogers was involved in a planning battle in 2009 over his proposed redevelopment of…

Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Dutch architect Martin Vermeulen of YouTube channel One Minute Architecture to present a selection of his best short architecture movies. Read more View the full article

Concrete ribs extend across the brick walls of this house on the outskirts of Brasília, Brazil, which Bloco Arquitetos has designed as two pavilion-like structures linked by an outdoor path. Read more View the full article

This week we launched our Designed in Hackney initiative to highlight design talent in the east London borough of Hackney, one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games and home to Dezeen’s offices. More details here. Our most popular story was an extension to a warehouse in Sheffield that looks like another building’s been added on top, which happens to be by Hackney architects Project Orange. An Amsterdam branch of Starbucks inside a former bank was our most-pinned story on Pinterest. Tom Dixon unveiled his plans for new show MOST in Milan next month, including Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, just as Montreal designer Craig Alun Smith revealed his…

Argentinian architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac has used folding wooden blinds and a chunky concrete floor slab to provide shade to this house near Buenos Aires. Read more View the full article

Opinion: Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit hub may be Instagram-friendly, but it is part of a troubling trend for public spending on spaces that aren't really public at all, says Alan G Brake. (more…) View the full article

Nick Willson Architects have completed a house in south-east London with sections of the facade clad in flint, timber and lead. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Designjunction has announced the exhibitor line-up for its next show in a former postal sorting office in central London during the London Design Festival this September. (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm OMA and landscape studio Olin have released updated visuals for 11th Street Bridge Park – a raised garden that will extend over Washington DC's Anacostia River. Read more View the full article