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Princeton University is suing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects over the school's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, claiming the building process was careless and took too long. Read more View the full article

New York architecture studio Forma has created contrasting orange and grey-coloured rooms for Yale University's student-run radio station. Read more View the full article

A gabled titanium roof and wooden walls form this white house that architecture studio Naturehumaine has perched on a wooded site in Québec, Canada. Read more View the full article

Comments update: readers are discussing Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge this week after the British designer suggested that ditching the project so soon after Britain's vote to leave the European Union would be a step "backwards" for the country. (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma built this temporary hut using cedar, ETFE plastic and magnets to pay tribute to a humble dwelling chronicled by Japanese author Kamono Chomei over 800 years ago (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Glass bottles rest on rows of hand-made iron nails along the walls of this Aesop skin and haircare shop in Paris by French designers Ciguë (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shift Architecture Urbanism has built a spherical cinema, a cube-shaped gallery and an elevated walkway to create a complex of design, science and technology museums in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Influenced by Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, this sculptural concrete residence by Santiago studio Gubbins Arquitectos perches on the craggy cliffs of the Chilean coastline (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British inventor Trevor Baylis, who developed the first radio powered by a crank, has died following a long illness. Read more View the full article

News: People will soon have up to ten miniature devices on their bodies and clothes monitoring their health, organising their social lives and responding to their emotional needs, according to Gadi Amit, a leading designer of wearable devices (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Cities haven't been designed to suit the lives of women, according to British writer Caroline Criado Perez, whose book Invisible Women argues that much architecture and design does not work properly for females. Read more View the full article

This contemporary reinterpretation of a vernacular courtyard house in the Chinese city of Guangzhou features a sequence of living areas and bedrooms arranged around a central pond. Read more View the full article

News: as a Chinese company announces plans to build the world’s tallest skyscraper in just seven months, Beijing Design Week creative director Aric Chen says that contemporary China should “slow down” and look to “craft thinking” to tackle both small and large-scale design challenges the country is facing. (more…) View the full article

A spectrum of vivid hues were incorporated throughout a mixed-use building in Chicago by John Ronan Architects that contains a public library at ground level and low-cost senior housing up above. Read more

Designer Richard Hutten will speak about design and the circular economy at Dezeen Day in London on 30 October. Read more

Bright white surfaces, industrial shelving and a grey marble counter create an uncluttered interior for this Porto clothes shop by local studio Fala Atelier (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A+Awards: brickwork assembled by robots forms wavy facades across these apartment blocks in Switzerland – the latest project in our series about winners from this year's Architizer A+Awards (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stone colonnades frame the open-plan interiors of Town House, the mixed-use teaching building by Grafton Architects for Kingston University in London. Read more View the full article

French architects JKA and design studio FUGA have converted a nineteenth century Alpine farmhouse in France into a holiday villa with chunky wooden cladding and cut-outs based on the shadows of other buildings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest issue of our weekly newsletter leads with Herzog & de Meuron's east London skyscraper proposal and also includes the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 182 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance and branding agency Brandimage have created a park-like business lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, with branching pathways and tree-shaped lights. (more…) View the full article

In this exclusive movie, the founder of Studio Gang Architects explains how her design for the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Michigan was intended to bring human rights issues out of "invisible places" and into public consciousness (+ movie). (more…)

Footwear designer Tracey Neuls explains why she shies away from “disposable fashion” and reveals that many customers consider her shoes “their best kept secret” in this movie Dezeen filmed at the Designed in Hackney Day PechaKucha, part of a series of talks and discussions we hosted in August. (more…) View the full article

Italian architect Piero Lissoni introduces his Dock modular sofa system for B&B Italia in this movie Dezeen filmed for the Italian furniture brand during Milan design week. Read more

An exhibition at the V&A Dundee explores the evolving relationship between humans and robots. From 1920s sci-fi films to brain-controlled exoskeletons, curator Kirsty Hassard picks five highlights. Read more View the full article