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Spanish architects Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes have competed a glass and red brick primary school in Pamplona, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture educator Matt+Fiona has worked with 100 primary school children to design and built a creative lab for other children. Read more

Product news: Italian designer Michele Daneluzzo took inspiration from tools used by early humans when designing this stainless steel knife. (more...) View the full article

A sawtooth roof with integrated skylights and solar panels gives this library and cultural centre in Denmark an industrial aesthetic that references its location at an old furniture factory (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the Prince of Wales has called for urbanists to "reconnect with traditional approaches" in an essay that lays out his vision for the future of architecture and planning. (more…) View the full article

News: the architectural principles behind the Prince of Wales' controversial Poundbury development (above) will be exported to Bahrain in a move that has angered human rights campaigners. (more...) View the full article

Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these images of a shimmering steel visitors centre at a Mumbai museum. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Princeton University has accused its former architecture dean Alejandro Zaera-Polo of making an "inaccurate and incomplete" statement about the plagiarism row that led to his resignation last year. (more…)

New York architect Joel Sanders has overhauled a library at Princeton University by installing interactive technology and colour-coded study areas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Google data and mouse movements become customisable textile patterns in Print All Over Me's fashion collaboration with artist Lia and studio Sosolimited. (more…) View the full article

The residents of Thessaloniki, Greece, can now recycle their plastic waste into 3D printed furniture for the city, using a new laboratory set up by Rotterdam studio The New Raw. Read more

Crowdfunding sites, electronic formats and online book fairs mean architecture and design book publishing is going through "a renaissance," according to Steve Kroeter, editor-in-chief of the Designers & Books website (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: consumers can save money by printing products at home rather than shopping for them, according to Janne Kyttanen, co-founder of design studio Freedom of Creation and creative director of 3D printer company 3D Systems (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Prints of drawings by London designer Dominic Wilcox are available at Dezeen Super Store as part of London design month. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: data streams from all over the city are visualised on the faceted surfaces of Japanese designer Keiichi Matsuda‘s installation inside the cupola of the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article

Product news: these angular lounge chairs and ottomans by Brisbane designer Alexander Lotersztain can be tessellated in an endless array of shapes and patterns. (more...) View the full article

Local Architecture Network has built a minimum security prison with a perforated metal facade of weathering steel in Nanterre that has a sports court in pastel hues. Read more View the full article

The Church of the Penitent Thief in Bologna, Italy, is housed in a gabled white volume cleaved in two by a glazed crack and was built with the help of inmates of La Dozza prison. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Pritzker Prize laureates paid tribute to Zaha Hadid at a private dinner before this year's Pritzker ceremony in honour of Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, which took place in New York on Monday. (more…) View the full article

Pritzker Prize-winning architect and Eero Saarinen protégé Kevin Roche has passed away aged 96, leaving behind a "formidable body of work" including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Ford Foundation headquarters. Read more

The governor of Illinois, whose family started the Pritzker Prize, is set to sell Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago, putting the fate of the postmodern building in "serious trouble". Read more

This family house in Switzerland by Chinese architects EXH Design has a corner missing from its roof to allow space for a triangular roof terrace (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A long stairway and ramp extend from a private house in Barcelos, Portugal. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Cologne by SMO Architektur adopts two contradicting architectural theories: the open-plan lower floor references Le Corbusier’s Plan Libre, while the multi-roomed upper floor follows the principles of Adolf Loos’ Raumplan. (more…) View the full article

Following our interview with Ström Architects about the value of photo-realistic visualisations, the firm sent us a set of images by rendering guru Peter Guthrie showing a house proposed for Suffolk, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article