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Interview: Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen has spent the last 24 years developing a series of wind-powered machines called Strandbeests that he describes as "a new species on Earth". Dezeen caught up with him on Miami Beach last week, where he explained how his creations are now evolving without his help (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Monolithic blocks of stone mimic man-made quarry landscapes for Grupo Arca's showroom and cultural centre in Guadalajara, Mexico, designed by Esrawe Studio. Read more View the full article

Designer Gitta Gschwendtner talks about making her Bodge Bench for the Stepney Green Design Collection and east London’s “great creative atmosphere” in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Chinese designer Sheng-Hung Lee has created a concept for a new kind of sea defence that also functions as a set of giant plant pots. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Soho House Group, whose New York members club is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Winy Maas, Kelly Hoppen, Ini Archibong and Imogen Heap have joined the judging panel for the 2019 edition of Dezeen Awards, which is open to enter. Read more

Skyscrapers in Seoul: here’s yet another skyscraper proposal for the architectural zoo that is the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul – this time a 385-metre-high tower by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox with a vertiginous swimming pool sticking out two thirds of the way up. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen reader Trevor Cook asked us to make a Pinterest board compiling chairs from the pages of Dezeen. So here it is. See all of our stories about chairs here and follow us on Pinterest here. View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can get a 35% discount on a new book of speculative architectural drawings and designs, curated by artists Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb and published by Lawrence King. (more…) View the full article

US shoe company Rothy's has launched handbags that it claims are made from 100 per cent recycled materials. Read more View the full article

This lamp by German designer Hayo Gebauer falls over when it’s turned off (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A crosswalk sign with the people standing apart and warnings not to shake hands are among the series of conceptual signs designer Dylan Coonrad reinterpreted to fit with the coronavirus' social distancing guidelines. Read more View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial: this project by Antwerp design studio Unfold explores how 3D-printed objects created from identical digital files can be as varied and unique as hand-made objects (+ movie + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Broad wooden steps lead from the living space of this Quebec residence, by local architects Bourgeois Lechasseur, down to the shores of Lac St-François. Read more View the full article

From designing face shields and flat-pack intensive care units to 3D-printing hands-free door levers and converting buildings to hospitals, architects and designers are tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Here are five ways they are helping. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes Banksy's pop-up-shop installation, opened in response to a trade mark dispute, and Zaha Hadid Architects Beijing airport terminal. Sign up to Dezeen Weekly here ›

Parisian furniture brand La Chance has unveiled a series of new additions to its collection, including a chunky bookcase and a side table that plays with perspective. Read more View the full article

Shanghai studio Neri&Hu has reinterpreted traditional Chinese architecture and courtyard typologies for the design of a 300-room hotel in one of China's oldest cities (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Loughborough University graduate James Roberts has won this year's James Dyson Award for a baby incubator that costs a fraction of the price of current technologies and "could save thousands of lives" in developing countries. (more...) View the full article

Piles of buildings featured heavily on Dezeen this week, including Edouard François’ stack of townhouses, apartment blocks and bungalows (above), plus we’ve picked out our favourite Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more…) View the full article

Belgian-American designer Maria Scarpulla has created a collection of five tables that feature colourful double-sided tops that can be flipped over. Read more

Danish architects 3XN have transformed a warehouse at popular Copenhagen restaurant Noma into an experimental food laboratory filled with modular wooden furniture and star-shaped lighting. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Tyler Thomas and Gabbi Sun of Venn Studio have paired "masculine-feminine, hard-soft" details inside this cosmetics store for a unisex beauty brand in Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: this new movie by White Arkitetker reveals the firm's masterplan for the relocation of an entire Swedish city, before continued iron ore mining destabilises the ground beneath it (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this year's thematic exhibition at the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism looked at how a "collective" practice can challenge the way cities are developed. Read more View the full article