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News: an Islamic cemetery in Austria and a restored market hall in Iran are among the five winners of the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Friends of the late Zaha Hadid have written an open letter denouncing Patrik Schumacher for his attempt to legally change who controls her estate. Read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a roundup of houses designed to showcase their owners' beloved cars. Read more View the full article

London designer Phil Cuttance has built a machine to cast faceted vases that are unique every time. Watch the movie » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Peter Bloomfield spent four years behind-the-scenes on the construction site of London's Barbican Estate, documenting the iconic Brutalist development as it "emerged from its chrysalis of scaffolding" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Influential design exhibitions platform Ventura Projects is to cease operating after ten years of organising exhibitions in Milan and other cities due to the impact of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design a sports complex in Ethiopia, which will include an excavated football stadium surrounded by earth stands. (more…) View the full article

In our next movie focussing on the work of Richard Rogers, the British architect talks exclusively to Dezeen about the challenges of designing an interesting office building and explains how the new Leadenhall building in London, dubbed "the Cheesegrater", got its distinctive shape. (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch designer Ed Annink, known for his work forging links between design and government in Europe, has died aged 55. (more…) View the full article

Contact lens cases, vegetable vases and pill packets are some glass objects by Lund University students in Sweden to explore the material's potential within a more circular economic system. Read more View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 59 winners of this year’s RIBA Awards, including projects by David Chipperfield, Foster + Partners and OMA. (more…) View the full article

Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes has built a bunker-like studio from prefabricated concrete and stone alongside his home in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week: designer Doreen Westphal has created a lamp with a metal stem that can be positioned upright or at an angle against its magnetic concrete base, currently on show at Dutch Design Week. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Dezeen has teamed up with watch brand Eone to launch our own version of the popular Bradley timepiece, which was originally designed for the visually impaired. (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design a visual culture museum in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has created a set of three huge cone-shaped lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg. (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: clustered lengths of bamboo create a forest of columns in the open-air dining room of this Vietnam restaurant by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design gallery The Future Perfect is exhibiting weird and wonderful ceramic homeware and accessories across its locations in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Read more View the full article

American firm Lake Flato has designed a riverfront park in southern Texas, with sculptural pavilions that provide shade on sunny days and help collect rainwater during storms. Read more View the full article

This proposal for a concrete chapel by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos is designed to reach up towards the sky from its site in the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We've been reporting from Stockholm design week over the last few days, where a chair based on an obese human body and a pin cushion sofa were presented. See our highlights from the fair in a new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

This simple armchair with a wooden base and upholstered body by Italian designer Emilio Nanni will debut in Milan next month. (more…)

Zaha Hadid was named as the 2016 laureate of the prestigious Royal Gold Medal for architecture this week – the first time a woman has won the prize in her own right. Browse her award-winning designs on our updated Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See the latest stories on Zaha Hadid View the full article

London Festival of Architecture 2016: architects Tomaso Boano and Jonas Prišmontas have created a small pop-up studio to raise awareness of how London's unaffordable rents and education is crippling its creative industries (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Geometric patterned screens encase a pair courtyards at this timber-clad beach house by Wolveridge Architects on Australia's south coast (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article