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British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled a pair of residential towers to straddle New York's High Line park, which will feature curved windows that resemble those at his studio's recently completed hotel in Cape Town. Read more View the full article

Texas-based startup Orion Span has revealed plans for a luxury space hotel, which is expected to open in 2022. Read more View the full article

Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been awarded a Golden Lion for the best project on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale, while Switzerland has been lauded for curating the best pavilion. Read more View the full article

Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed Building 25 of the Sinan Mansions in Shanghai into a bookstore that takes inspiration from the human body and mind. Read more View the full article

3XN has revealed its design for the Sydney Fish Market, which will allow the public to observe the workings of what will be the world's largest wholesale fish market. Read more

Co-working company WeWork has completed these headquarters in New York's SoHo for a wellness venture led by Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington. Read more

Designers Marc Newson and Ron Arad, trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, and Studio Fuksas co-founder Doriana Fuksas have joined the Dezeen Awards 2019 judges lineup. Read more

The best architecture and design roles available on Dezeen Jobs this week include vacancies at Danish textile brand Kvadrat and London-based architecture studio ACME. Read more

An exhibition at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands celebrates 100 years of universal voting rights in the country. Co-curator Egge Knol picks five objects that tell the story. Read more

With the passing of great modern architects like IM Pei and Kevin Roche, monumental architecture is becoming less relevant for today's society, says Aaron Betsky. Read more

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

German practice IFUB has completed a pair of timber homes in Munich that are subtly differentiated by the direction of their diagonal larch cladding and different coloured blinds. Read more

Preservation and hospitality organisation Wildland has collaborated with Groves-Raines Architects to convert former clergy living-quarters into an intimate guesthouse in the Scottish highlands. Read more

Luxury fashion group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy has named Hed Mayner the first winner of the Karl Lagerfeld Prize for emerging fashion designers, which has been renamed after the late designer. Read more

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have demonstrated an experimental way of manufacturing cement that releases no carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Read more

Colombo and Serboli Architecture has used richly-hued paintwork to bring life to the previously charred interior of this apartment in Barcelona. Read more View the full article

Leading and emerging women working in architecture and construction will discuss the experience of working in both fields at a talk held in Knauf's London showroom. Tune in here live from 7pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: London's River Cafe restaurant, designed by architect Richard Rogers, has launched its annual limited-edition gift boxes containing a selection of the same Italian ingredients used daily in its kitchen. Read more View the full article

Our pick of the best Christmas cards we've received from architects, designers and brands this year includes Chris Precht's treehouse and a festive Notre-Dame Cathedral. Read more View the full article

Studio Drift has created Ego, a kinetic sculpture made of 10 miles of ultra-fine nylon, for the Dutch National Touring Opera's production of L'Orfeo. Read more View the full article

Chenchow Little Architects has completed a house in the Glebe suburb of Sydney featuring upside-down arches in the walls and curved openings in the floors. Read more View the full article

Hui Kao's has created the Paper Pleats furniture collection from paper bound with rice glue, which was developed as a result of the designer's sensitivity to chemicals and desire to create recyclable products. Read more View the full article

With Tinseltown under lockdown due to coronavirus, a new genre of "virus fiction" or "ViFi" could emerge, says speculative architect and director Liam Young in the first of a series of video messages from creatives around the world recorded as part of our Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Istanbul studio Zift Design is launching its latest product collections as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

A huge arched window punctuates the grey-brick exterior of and education centre built by Adam Richards Architects in the grounds of a 16th-century castle in the English town of Deal, Kent. Read more View the full article