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News: the latest celebrity to dip their toes into design is hip-hop artist Snoop, who has teamed up with holiday rental website Airbnb to create a pop-up house during next week's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. (more...) View the full article

British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to design a new wing for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. (more…)

This daybed by Korean designer Hyung Suk Cho blends elements from traditional Korean furniture with the needs of modern houses. Read more View the full article

When Royal College of Art graduate Hotzu River Cheng found out that cooking fumes were a bigger cause of lung cancer than cigarettes among Chinese women, he set out to design a better extractor fan to protect them. (more…) View the full article

A series of matching stoneware designs by French designers Francesco Balzano and Valériane Lazard is on display at Studio Twenty Seven gallery in Miami. Read more View the full article

Korean firm BUS Architecture's Undefined Playground unfolds to transform crowded city space into a public sports facility for football, tennis, basketball or Frisbee (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Thick, galvanised-steel frames highlight a selection of windows on the concrete facade of this apartment block in Tokyo designed by Japanese studios Sasaki Architecture and Atelier O (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a learning centre for the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, which will comprise a stack of glass cubes held within white frames. Read more View the full article

Norwegian firm Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has teamed up with Scottish studio Dualchas Architects to design a seafront visitor centre for an island in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: here’s a slideshow of the winner in the villa category at the World Architecture Festival, which is a house on a working sheep farm on North Bruny Island, Tasmania, by John Wardle Architects. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Sāransh has used an array of materials to define the different living zones of this open-plan studio apartment in Ahmedabad, India. Read more View the full article

Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten has added a contemporary extension to a traditional farmhouse in Austria, featuring rough-sawn spruce cladding and a folded fibre-cement roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced that it will close indefinitely from tomorrow in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus in the city. Read more View the full article

News: the Rio de Janeiro stadium that was set to host athletics tournaments during the 2016 Olympics has been closed indefinitely due to structural problems. (more...) View the full article

Chairs, carpets and blinds cleared from homes in the wake of deaths, divorces and bankruptcies form the raw material for these stools by Dutch designer Joost Gehem (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based architecture firm Tonkin Liu has revealed its plans for a family of fritted-glass skyscrapers, which will be arranged around a central plaza in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a robotic stand that turns a Samsung Galaxy device into a collaborative smart assistant has taken the top prize in the accessories category of the Samsung Mobile Design Competition. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Denizen Works has remodelled a north London house, transforming the "small dark bachelor pad" into a family home with a light-filled kitchen and dining space. (more…) View the full article

In the final movie we filmed with Reinier de Graaf of OMA at the Venice Architecture Biennale, he discusses the firm’s fascination with architecture of the late 1960s and how there is an “inherent paradox between the brutal appearance of these buildings and the social mission that they were part of.” (more…) View the full article

California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies is developing a plant that can store excess carbon dioxide in its roots, in a bid to curb the effects of climate change. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Riluxa has expanded its Corian surface material collection with an array of new colours to help users create vibrant yet minimal bathrooms. Read more View the full article

See the latest updates from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with LAVA, Marc Newson and MVRDV, whose Glass Farm shop and office complex disguised as an old farmhouse is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Studio Urquiola, Marcel Wanders, Foster + Partners and more... (more...) View the full article

Bright yellow spectator stands line the edge of this timber-framed sports hall in the Netherlands by Dutch firm Koppert + Koenis Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob calls for an end to the "tyranny of fun" in office design. (more...) View the full article

Japanese tatami mats have been moved from off of the floor and onto the furniture in this collection by French designer José Lévy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article