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Continuing our high-tech architecture series we've rounded up 15 examples of the style that you should know, including high-tech highlights the Centre Pompidou, Lloyd's building and the Willis Faber & Dumas building. Read more View the full article

The design features of Indian stepwells and water mazes are combined in this proposal for a landscaped garden by architecture studio Penda (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: flower stems thread through holes in these rings by graduate designer Gahee Kang, turning the silver and gold jewellery into posies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Matilde Boelhouwer has designed a series of artificial flowers that turn rain into sugar water, to serve as emergency food sources for city-dwelling insect pollinators. Read more View the full article

Architecture practice Thomas-McBrien extended a London house, adding a oak-lined reading nook and a utility room hidden behind a secret door along with a kitchen and dining space. Read more View the full article

An interactive mapping tool provides a scary glimpse of how cities such as New York, Boston and Miami might end up if sea levels continue to rise. Read more View the full article

Airbus has unveiled a bird-like concept for a hybrid-electric airliner that aims to show the potential of using biomimicry in aviation design. Read more

Influenced by Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed leafy tower in Beirut, our featured Pinterest board this week is sowed with plant-covered buildings from around the world. It includes Studio 102's verdant office and showroom in Hanoi and a green Parisian apartment tower by Maison Edouard François. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

The final wave of regeneration at brutalist Park Hill estate will see 350 student homes, designed by British practice Whittam Cox Architects, built within the iconic concrete framework of the social housing complex in Sheffield, England. Read more View the full article

Models were disguised within oversized forms made from layers of wadding at this season's Comme des Garçons Autumn Winter 2017 show during Paris Fashion Week. Read more View the full article

A tomb that was designed but never realised by modernist architect Adolf Loos has been built by British architect Sam Jacob in a historic London cemetery. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio OMA has completed its extension to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, which features a stack of stepped galleries and a protruding, angular staircase. (more…) View the full article

An immersive experience by Campaign and The Future Laboratory that takes visitors on a journey to find a scent that matches their personality opens this week at London department store Selfridges (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a designer at Morgans Hotel Group in New York. The group has previously worked with well-known designers such as Philippe Starck, Tom Dixon and Marcel Wanders, who designed the Mondrian South Beach hotel in Miami (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen remembers 2015 Pritzker laureate Frei Otto, who passed away this week at the age of 89, with some of the best projects from his pioneering career as a champion of tensile and membrane architecture and an early adopter of 3D modelling. (more…)

Argentinan studio Carolina Vago Arquitectura has added a metal and glass volume on top of old horse stables to create this rural holiday home. Read more View the full article

Architects Tom and James Teatum designed this co-living space in Hammersmith to include informal work and living spaces that they hope will encourage millennials to spend more time at home. Read more View the full article

The residents of a house in Melbourne have allowed architect Andrew Maynard to reveal their living spaces to passers-by, with a timber-framed extension that slots into the perimeter fence (+ slideshow). (more…)

In this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, design duo Something & Son talk about keeping chickens in east London buildings and making tea with heat from compost heaps. (more...) View the full article

News: British architect Richard MacCormac, a former RIBA President and founder of MJP Architects, has died following a long battle with cancer. (more...) View the full article

Five years ago designers were injecting an element of fun into their projects: Nendo created a climbing wall of picture frames (above) at a fitness club, while architects BIG designed a winter resort hotel where guests could ski down the roof (below). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Kerry Hill won the award in the housing category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for an apartment building in Singapore and in this interview we filmed he discusses how he believes the nation is developing an “emerging approach to design” rather than an architectural style. (more…) View the full article

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a new agricultural and baking education centre in Denmark's Jutland region, which will feature teaching spaces skylit by a pair of kiln-shaped forms. Read more View the full article

The ground floor of Dezeen's north London office The Surgery has been transformed into a walk-in watch shop by local studio Post-Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Bernardo Richter took cues from a holiday home by Alvar Aalto when designing this brick house in Curitiba, Brazil. Read more View the full article