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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has revealed new details of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 torch, as the country prepares for the games this summer. Read more View the full article

A lawyer's office occupies a contemporary extension to a commercial building in Montreal, which local studio Naturehumaine designed with a monochrome palette and wooden accents. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers debated whether artists should delve into architecture, following the completion of Olafur Eliasson's first building. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Satellite Architects has designed a gridded structure filled with mirrors and vegetation for the entrance to designjunction's event during this year's London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

As we move into May in our review of the year, the news was filled with stories about skyscrapers including the topping out of One World Trade Center. (more...) View the full article

Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Today marks 50 days to go until the final Dezeen Awards 2019 entry deadline. Read on for more vital numbers relating to Dezeen Awards! Read more

This time last year Dezeen was all about the great outdoors with a zoological park on a series of artificial islands, a glass objects made in the desert and Peter Zumthor talking about his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Pantone announced Classic Blue as the colour of the coming year, while we looked back at 2019 with the launch of our year in review series. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: London designers Doshi Levien have designed an armchair and sofa for Italian brand Moroso that’s inspired by Modernist architect Le Corbusier and the Indian city of Chandigarh that he masterplanned in the 1950s. (more…) View the full article

British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's solo show at Vitra Design Museum asks questions about our place in the natural world. We look at the six projects on display in the exhibition. Read more

City dwellers are adapting to escalating house prices by living in smaller, more flexible spaces, and designers are responding with furniture that makes the most of every inch of the floors, walls, and even the ceiling. We've pulled together 10 of the best examples (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York-based studio White Arrow has overhauled this early 20th-century apartment in Berlin, adding in plenty of storage space while carefully preserving the home's original features. Read more View the full article

New York designer Kelly Behun has created a show residence near the top of Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue tower, using a palette aimed to complement the sweeping Manhattan views and make visitors "feel grounded" 92 storeys up. Read more View the full article

The loft space of an art nouveau building in Strasbourg, France has been converted into this light-filled two-storey apartment. Read more View the full article

Japanese auto company Toyota has adapted a fleet of its autonomous and electric e-Palette vehicles to serve athletes in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Read more

Movie: Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito tells Dezeen that, while his buildings vary in material and style, the key to all of them is their close relationship with the people that inhabit them. (more...) View the full article

Studio Razavi has abandoned excessive decoration for simple plaster walls and arched niches inside this Lyon apartment, which is meant to channel a sense of calm. Read more View the full article

VDF teams up with architecture imagery festival Zoomed In today to host a day of talks and screenings, starting with a discussion on photographing infrastructure with Anthony Coleman, Dennis Gilbert and Kilian O'Sullivan. Read more View the full article

SoomeenHahm Design, Igor Pantic and Fologram have built a twisting pavilion for the 2019 Tallinn Architecture Biennial using augmented reality and old-fashioned woodworking. Read more

French architect Elisabeth Polzella has built a covered market from structural stone and timber for the town of Lamure-Sur-Azergues in the Rhône region of central France. Read more View the full article

Landscape architect, critic and founder of Maggie's Centres, Charles Jencks, died this week. With populism on the rise, the pluralism of postmodernism – a term he coined – is needed now more than ever, argues Owen Hopkins. Read more View the full article

The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win one of three colourful desk tidies by German product designer Tino Seubert. Read more View the full article

Michael Renard, executive vice president of bioprinting company Organovo, explains how 3D printing could one day be used to produce replacement tissue, vessels and organs in this interview conducted for our print-on-demand magazine Print Shift (+ transcript). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Mail has gone weekly and this issue includes our plans for Milan next week, stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions and updates from Dezeen Wire and Dezeen Screen. Check it out here. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article