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Our new curated Pinterest board contains a definitive selection of skyscrapers from across the globe, including the world's tallest wooden skyscraper, a twisted skyscraper in Dubai by SOM and a pollution-harvesting tower for Stockholm. (more...) View the full article

Western cities have done a better job of integrating technology into their infrastructure than the new wave of Asian smart cities, according to architect and television presenter Jason Pomeroy. Read more View the full article

The new Museum Luthers Sterbehaus by Stuttgart architects Von M is a grey-brick extension to the house where Martin Luther died - but it turns out the Christian reformer "actually died in another building around the corner" (+ slideshow + photos by Zooey Braun). (more...) View the full article

Copenhagen-based textile designer Margrethe Odgaard plays with perception of colour and space in this line of satin-woven curtains for Danish brand Kvadrat. Read more

IKEA's innovation lab Space10 has traded in the "chaotic" open-plan design of its head office in Copenhagen for a more flexible workspace divided with mobile partitions, by local studio Spacon & X. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Young Architects Competitions is inviting architects and designers to come up with ideas for transforming the ruins of a medieval castle in Italy into a holiday destination. Read more View the full article

This concrete house in the Portuguese town of Palmela by Lisbon office Paratelier was cast inside wooden panels that were then used to build its interior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: not content with progress on Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge, London is planning a second new pedestrian bridge near the Battersea Power Station development. (more…) View the full article

News: a tower under construction in Miami by Porsche Design and Dezer Development is to feature car elevators, allowing some of the world's wealthiest people to park right next to their living rooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

American architect Robert Gurney has created a house in Virginia topped with a geometric roof, which folds over the building to protect it from harsh winds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This year, sustainable design finally went mainstream at Milan design week. Here is Dezeen's pick of the 10 best projects and shows that tackled environmental issues. Read more

A cantilevered viewing platform is one of 10 architectural elements made from weathering steel that Snøhetta has created for the Perspektivenweg walking trail in the Austrian Alps. Read more

Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity informed the structural design of the Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, the latest addition to the Dezeen A-Zdvent calendar. (more…) View the full article

A crowdfunding campaign to bring a lightning-bolt statue in memory of David Bowie to London aims to raise just under £1,000,000 in 28 days. Read more View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a director at The Architecture Foundation in London (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Movie: in the penultimate instalment of our exclusive video series, Julia Peyton-Jones explains why it was a gamble to commission the relatively young Sou Fujimoto to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2013. (more…) View the full article

Swedish studio Förstberg Ling has converted a former blacksmith's workshop in Stockholm to create a light-filled family home for Petrus Palmér, co-founder of furniture brand Hem and design studio Form Us With Love. Read more View the full article

Lego fans can now build outwards from walls, chair legs, household objects or the backs of other toys using a new studded tape. Read more View the full article

Emerging Dutch firm Unknown Architects has renovated a 200-year-old house in Leiden by stripping back its interior, and inserting built-in furniture and a twisting white staircase (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A cluster of stone and plaster-lined volumes form Think Architecture's minimalist House in a Park, which sits on a hilltop in Zurich, Switzerland. Read more

Two towering walls of Corten steel lead into this four-bedroom guesthouse at the Cloudy Bay winery in Marlborough, New Zealand (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

During this year's Milan design week, Nendo will submerge 30 of its new vases in an aquarium so that they gently move around like jellyfish. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Santiago Calatrava, the firm behind New York's World Trade Center Transportation Hub (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: leading architects including Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Richard Rogers and Daniel Libeskind have paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid in a video created by Dezeen and Architizer. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: British furniture brand Bisley has teamed up with designer Paul Kelley on a hand-finished modular storage system. Read more