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Dutch firm Lagado Architects have designed a temporary public toilet block with wide open sections in the roof so users can sit on the toilet and look up into the sky (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Bridget Cogley has picked the top restaurants around the world for our next review of 2019 – including Snøhetta's underwater eatery in Norway, a Kyoto chocolate bar and an all-pink pizza spot in London. Read more View the full article

New York architects Todd Rouhe and Maria Ibañez de Sendadiano have completed a holiday home in the Catskills, filled with designs from Danish retailers Hay and Vipp. Read more View the full article

A 1960’s bungalow in Cambridgeshire is hidden behind a Siberian larch-clad extension with a row of gabled roofs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

It's all happening in New York during May, with new city-wide event NYCxDesign running alongside the established International Contemporary Furniture Fair. We've also added five new events to the World Design Guide. (more...) View the full article

Blackened steel, plywood and local stones were used to construct this modern country home in the American Midwest by Bamesberger Architecture. Read more View the full article

American car manufacturer Ford is developing lighting technology that can automatically detect pedestrians on dark roads and widen headlight beams at low-visibility junctions (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Italian designer Paola Navone has rolled out a new visual identity for seven McDonald's stores in France, adding clashing prints and pops of colour to their interiors. Read more

Berlin-based designer Yasmine Benhadj-Djilali has proposed a new piece of office furniture to allow employees a moment of private reflection. Read more View the full article

Following the fifth edition of Romanian Design Week, Dezeen has selected the best exhibited designs, including modular children's furniture, wooden headphones and traditionally patterned rugs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

With just 20 days to go until entries for Dezeen Awards 2020 close, there's limited time left to enter one of our studio categories at a lower price! Read more View the full article

The Brazil headquarters for retail conglomerate Walmart's online division by Estudio Guto Requena has colour-coded levels and a terrace with a miniature golf course (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes Melania Trump's unveiling of a White House tennis pavilion, our latest Face to Face podcast featuring Thomas Heatherwick and more coronavirus news. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Portuguese practice António Costa Lima Arquitectos has inserted a perforated, lattice-like brick volume into the stone shell of a former warehouse to create this new home along Lisbon's waterfront. Read more View the full article

News: architecture critic Martin Filler has said he regrets making an error in a book review that accused Zaha Hadid of showing a lack of concern for worker conditions on her World Cup stadium project in Qatar. (more...) View the full article

A multidisciplinary team in Chile have designed a self-sufficient cabin that can be tailored to the local climate and topography, along with a client's specific needs. Read more View the full article

Architecture Club has completed a sculpture studio for Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, featuring board-marked concrete walls and huge windows. Read more View the full article

New York designer Stephen Burks filled the Milan showroom of Italian brand Calligaris with colourful ropes and columns of plastic chairs lashed together last month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The Obama Presidential Center will be presented to the Chicago City Council today. But its proposed siting in the city's Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted's historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles A Birnbaum. Read more View the full article

Opinion: in the first of his monthly columns for Dezeen, V&A senior curator Kieran Long argues that today's obsession with authorship and celebrity "leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world" and calls for an overhaul of the way design is curated in the twenty-first century. (more...) View the full article

Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has won a competition to design a museum of Roman history in Nîmes with this building dressed in a pleated glass toga. (more…) View the full article

This weekend residence by Architecture Brio is half-embedded in the bank of a river that winds its way through the foothills of the Western Ghats, a mountain range bordering India's western coast (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We're inviting you to step inside renovated Barbican flats with our new Pinterest board, including pale minimalist aesthetics and colourful walls that feature inside homes within the brutalist estate. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read more View the full article

This headquarters for an oil and gas company in Mexico City features a square pool of reflective oil in the centre of the lobby (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Following the death of Zaha Hadid, we've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to her buildings to include more of the Pritzker-Prize winning architect's ambitious and critically-acclaimed work. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more stories about Zaha Hadid View the full article