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News: a proposal by Vo Trong Nghia Architects to build towering bamboo structures modelled on lotus pods has been selected for Vietnam's pavilion at the World Expo 2015 in Milan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Concrete canopies shaped like leaves shelter the rooms of this house in the coastal town of Alibaug, India, by SJK Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

As working from home becomes more common due to the coronavirus outbreak, we've updated our Pinterest board featuring the most well-designed study nooks to inspire your own home office set-up. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: design graduate Ariane Prin uses an extruding machine to press pencils from waste materials she finds at the Royal College of Art workshops in her project From Here to Here, presented and filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week Olafur Eliasson and Snøhetta unveiled their proposals for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to create a new football stadium for English team Portsmouth FC that were abandoned shortly after. OMA started work on a study into urban growth in the Gulf, the results of which were presented recently as part of an exhibition documenting the firm’s working processes and lighting designer Stuart Haygarth designed a children’s nightlight filled with toys for a charity auction. Elsewhere on Dezeen we published even more high-profile projects that we’d seen in Milan, which included door handles designed by Zaha …

Milan 2015: architect Zaha Hadid has carved pleats into the surfaces of these vases and tables made from different varieties of marble (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Glass-walled pavilions at a California winery, Apple's new hijab emoji and BIG's latest building all feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

The American Institute of Architects has urged Congress to support small architecture firms and their employees as they struggle amid the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Nike is putting new focus into sustainability, says chief operating officer Eric Sprunk, and has just created a new super material from recyclable natural leather fibre. Read more View the full article

Metal pipes and lightbulbs previously used on squid fishing boats are used to make a sculptural light that hangs from a double-height space in the centre of this Aesop skincare store in Kyoto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A dune-like concrete shell encases the Ayla Clubhouse in Aqaba, which Oppenheim Architecture has designed to blend in with the surrounding desert in Jordan. Read more

News: a project to bring cheap and easy-to-build mine detonators to Afghan minefields has just nine days left to raise the final $14,000 of its $100,000 goal on crowdfunding website Kickstarter. (more...) View the full article

Glazed walls, a large metal roof and a vast central atrium feature in an academic building designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners for an emerging medical campus in Ohio. Read more View the full article

A tree grows up through a lightwell that Australian studio Welsh + Major has added to this house in Sydney, and topped with an opening glass roof. Read more View the full article

Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has launched its own in-house engineering department to cater to increasingly technically ambitious projects. Read more View the full article

This family house in Mexico City by local architect Paul Cremoux conceals a three-storey wall of plants behind its slate-clad facade. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Tham & Videgård has turned a former Stockholm design college into a members club that aims to make creative professionals feel "a little spoiled". Read more View the full article

Artisan weaver Manju Devi hand-tied more than 200,000 knots to create this colourful one-off rug for the Jaipur Rug Foundation, which helps communities in rural India to preserve their traditional skills. Read more

New York studio Ray Kingston Inc. has developed a wireless speaker that you wear over your sneakers. (more…) View the full article

Just in case you haven’t seen enough design for the London 2012 Olympic games yet, we’ve made a new Pinterest board featuring all the London 2012 Olympic design and architecture images from the pages of Dezeen. Over 21,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring London 2012 olympics on Dezeen » View the full article

Opinion: in her first column for Dezeen, critic Alexandra Lange argues that architects are misusing platforms like Twitter and Tumblr. "Architects need to start thinking of social media as the first draft of history," she writes. (more...) View the full article

A cylindrical tower clad in weathered steel forms part of this extension to a 19th-century stone cottage in the English countryside, designed to recall a gasworks that previously stood on the site. (more…)

Thin ribbons of wood line the green ceilings and white pine wall panels in this Montreal pizza restaurant designed by local studio Ménard Dworkind. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: online furniture brand Hem is launching six new and updated products by designers including Philippe Malouin, Form Us With Love and Max Lamb in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article