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American architect Marc Thorpe has designed this Hollywood Hills residence for an art collector to draw on the modernist Case Study Houses. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this next movie in our series by architectural film studio Factory Fifteen depicts an imagined post-nuclear landscape where a team of researchers are attempting to use fungal technology to soak up the radiation that has infected cities around the world. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New photos reveal the Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre nearing completion in China. Read more

New York designer Joe Doucet has created a 3D-printed concrete bench that also functions as a barrier to protect public spaces from vehicle-led terrorist attacks. Read more

Chinese furniture designer Mario Tsai has created a pair of tables with frames that allow them to be easily picked up and moved with one hand (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch studios NL Architects and XVW Architectuur have renovated one of the largest apartment buildings in the Netherlands, restoring the repetitive gridded facades of the 1960s block but leaving the flats bare for residents to customise. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Awards 2019 architect of the year Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a house on Vietnam's scenic Ha Long Bay with trees growing through its concrete walls. Read more View the full article

Music: British director Ruffmercy drew influence from the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for this fast-paced animated video for a track by rappers Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs and A$AP Ferg. (more…) View the full article

Designers Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux, who collaborate as Messgewand, have created a collection of surreal furniture made from collages of found objects. Read more View the full article

This system of illustrated characters and animations was developed to help people learn to read Chinese, and is one of the 76 projects nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Breaking news: Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been named as the 2017 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, after winning both the Praemium Imperiale prize and the Venice Architecture Biennale Golden Lion this year. (more…) View the full article

Chunky concrete boxes form a grid of secluded balconies across the facade of this apartment block in Kyoto by Japanese studio VIDZ Architects. (more…) View the full article

A collection of 1950s and 1960s products by designers including Dieter Rams, Arne Jacobsen and Dietrich Lubs for German electricals brand Braun are on display at the new Paul Smith store in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An inflatable pavilion that looks like a soap bubble, by architects Plastique Fantastique, has been popping up around Copenhagen this month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Play "spot the woman" in this photo set of an apartment that references Tel Aviv's 1950s interiors by Israeli practice Jacobs-Yaniv Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Students don't need to take creative subjects at school as they are already exposed to creative processes thanks to mobile phones, according to the author of a new government-commissioned report on the UK's creative sector. Read more View the full article

From a bed cocooned in an ice vortex to a colourful suite in America's first gay boutique hotel, this week we're counting down Dezeen's most-pinned hotel room interiors from all around the world (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Proctor & Shaw has extended the south London home of a retired teacher, adding a timber-lined snug that can be used for reading or birdwatching. Read more

New York designer Bec Brittain has created lights with candy-coloured stands, ivory glass shades and decorative strips of suede for her latest collection. Read more View the full article

Designer Philippe Malouin describes how the Olympics has changed Hackney in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Live during 100% Design. (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our new and improved recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Sanjay Puri Architects, Machado Silvetti and London furniture store SCP, which exhibited new designs by Michael Anastassiades at last year's London Design Festival (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with John McAslan + Partners, Soho House & Co, Adjaye Associates and more... (more…) View the full article

Lindsey Adelman, Apparatus and Rich Brilliant Willing are among 40 design studios and makers in New York City that have put their work in an online charity auction, where all proceeds will support the city's battle during the coronavirus crisis. Read more View the full article

Spring is here, and with it a slew of architecture and design events around the world. Check out the highlights for April, May and June in our comprehensive guide to 2019 events include the big Milan design week next week, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Design Miami/Basel plus design weeks in Bucharest and San Francisco. More ›

Comments update: architect Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School collapsed last week, sparking a debate about the project's credentials and the media's previously flattering coverage of its design. But does the floating-school concept still have a future? (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week readers have been debating whether the proliferation of perforated facades in projects like David Adjaye’s Smithsonian Museum (top right) is a result of fashion or shifts in practical considerations like availability and cost, so we’ve grouped all our stories about perforated metal facades in one place. Join the discussion about fashion in architecture here and see all the stories here. See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article