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The UK government has promised to pay to replace combustible cladding on private high-rise housing, almost two years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Read more

Dark surfaces and an array of warm materials helped Studio Four create a cosy series of rooms behind the black facade of this Melbourne family home. Read more

Double-height glass doors slide back to open up an entire facade of this house in Israel by architect Pitsou Kedem (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Business news: a lawsuit has uncovered details that suggest the 2014 merger between US furniture brand Herman Miller and retailer Design Within Reach may not have technically happened. (more…) View the full article

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: the first career retrospective of architect David Adjaye has opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring a full-size replica of his 2007 Horizon pavilion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: next in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Maison La Roche-Jeanneret in Paris – designed to provide a home for the architect's brother and a separate residence and gallery for a friend with a collection of cubist art (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Haworth white papers: co-working spaces popular with small companies and individual workers could help large corporations be more innovative, according to a report by office furniture giant Haworth. (more…) View the full article

The world's largest solar furnace and wave-reflecting chambers are captured in this series of images documenting the architecture of science and research facilities by British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Google has teamed up with global architecture firm NBBJ to design a new 100,000-square-metre campus for San Francisco Bay, California. (more...) View the full article

This house in Saitama, Japan, by Naf Architect & Design looks like it's been chopped in half and split open. (more...) View the full article

Boxy wooden rooms branch out from a crooked blue spine at this family house in Sayo, Japan, in our second story this week about the work of FujiwaraMuro Architects. (more...) View the full article

This cylindrical, larch-clad observation tower was designed by Icosis Architects to provide an elevated vantage point over picturesque bogland and night skies in Scotland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These new shots by Hufton + Crow provide an in-depth look at the pointy profile and expansive interiors of the Polish concert hall that was recently shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 and this year's Designs of the Year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house in the Australian desert by Dunn & Hillam Architects hunkers down into the earth and features a large angled roof to protect it from extreme temperature fluctuations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A vibrator that can be worn as a necklace, Lego's new building blocks aimed at the architecture community and Rebecca Litchfield's photographic project chronicling the decay of abandoned Soviet architecture (pictured), feature in Dezeen Mail issue 215. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. View the full article

Following the publication of three projects by Kengo Kuma this week, we've collected together the best examples of the Japanese architect's work from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Kengo Kuma architecture View the full article

More than 900 bamboo poles were used to construct this home, designed by architect Enrique Mora Alvarado for a site in a remote Ecuadorian rainforest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese practices Sasaki Architecture and Atelier O have transformed the ground level of a 40-year-old warehouse in Tokyo into a gallery for traditional Hina dolls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Researchers at Forensic Architecture are investigating allegations that human rights organisations colluded with human traffickers to smuggle refugees across the Mediterranean, in the latest real-world intervention by the team. Read more View the full article

A burnout culture of "sleep is for the weak" must be stopped in design education for the sake of students' mental health say #DezeenChat participants. Read more

Danish studio BIG has designed an observation tower shaped like a honey dipper for Phoenix, Arizona. (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, the legacies of prolific fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Italian designer Alessandro Mendini were celebrated after the two iconic figures passed away. Read more

American firm Hoedemaker Pfeiffer used stone, wood and glass to create a main dwelling and guest house for a steep, forested site in the Pacific Northwest overlooking the ocean. Read more

Consumer goods company Unilever has launched Cif ecorefill, a concentrated cleaning product that can be diluted at home within a refillable spray bottle, to reduce plastic use. Read more

Seattle firm Olson Kundig Architects has won first place in a competition to create an architectural fairytale, with its story about a dead architect who is resurrected and dropped into a futuristic urban landscape. (more…) View the full article