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American studio LMN Architects has completed a performing arts centre for the University of Iowa that features twisted terracotta panels, glass shingles and bespoke acoustic panels made of metal and felt. Read more View the full article

This captioned movie shows Virgin Galactic's prototype SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity complete its first supersonic, rocket-powered flight, taking the company one step closer to commercial space travel. Read more View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's plans to update Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge stadium have been put on hold indefinitely due to an "unfavourable investment climate". Read more View the full article

The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win a stay at a hotel in a converted Tuscan palazzo in Florence, Italy. Read more View the full article

John Wardle Architects imagined a landscape with ravines, clearings and escarpments when designing the spaces of the Learning & Teaching Building at Monash University's Clayton Campus in Melbourne, Australia. Read more

Zaha Hadid Design has launched a woman's activewear collection with Norwegian brand Odlo, which is designed to protect you from even the harshest Scandinavian winters. Read more

British designer Es Devlin has been named as the artistic director of the third edition of the London Design Biennale in 2020. Read more

New York designer Shaina Garfield has created an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body so that it decomposes quickly and fertilises the surrounding soil. Read more

This modernist resort in Northern California, which formed an enclave for artists in the 1960s, has been overhauled by Los Angeles design studio The Novogratz. Read more

Architects in India have to endure exploitative internships in order to complete their studies, according to recent graduate Urvashi Vasishtha. With unpaid internships under the spotlight, she spoke to Dezeen about the situation in her country. Read more

This week on Dezeen, Apple's new Mac Pro and robotic IKEA furniture were among the innovations revealed by the two design giants at their annual conferences. Read more

Creative firm Grupo Mitote has overhauled a 16-century colonial mansion near Guadalajara, Mexico to create the Juana Bautista Hotel. Read more

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

Canadian studio Burgers Architecture has built a vacation home on Vancouver's Bowen Island with gabled volumes that culminate in glass walls to overlook the region's waterway. Read more

London design studio Pinch has launched six furniture and lighting pieces, from a dining table and stacking stool to a sofa and a four-poster bed, as part of their 15th anniversary celebrations. Read more

Brutalism and underground fight clubs were used as a point of reference for VSHD Design when designing this gym in Dubai. Read more

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes "one of the best inventions ever made" according to one of our readers and the UK's best house of the year as named by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Architecture firms Diamond Schmitt and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have revealed plans to redesign the David Geffen Hall at New York's Lincoln Center, two years after Heatherwick Studio's overhaul was scrapped. Read more View the full article

Continuing our review of 2019, Sabina Sohail selects the top 10 hotels of the year including a spa in the Sharjah desert and a hotel built within an abandoned quarry in China. Jungle Keva Hotel, Mexico, by Jaque Studio Located in Tulum, the interiors of this hotel features palm leaf-lined ceilings and wooden fixtures and furnishings – taking cues from its verdant surroundings. Jungle Keva is made up of four 50 square-metre guest lodges, which have been dotted throughout a tree-filled plot of land to create an atmosphere of "being in a small village in the Mayan jungle". Read more on the Jungle Keva Hotel › Al Faya Lodge, UAE, by Anarchitect Anarchitect transform…

NL Architects has completed a huge cultural complex in Groningen, which is set to become an important landmark for the Dutch city. Read more View the full article

White metal mesh filters daylight into the terrace of this extension of a 1950s detached home in Barcelona by Bonba Studio. Read more View the full article

London design studio Special Projects has developed an app that condenses important information such as contacts and maps onto a paper print out to help people live without their device for a day. Read more View the full article

Seattle architecture firm SHED has designed this compact home for a couple who wanted to live in a smaller dwelling on their own property. Read more View the full article

Face shields offer more effective protection against coronavirus than masks and should be worn by the public whenever they leave home, according to US physician and epidemiologist Michael Edmond. Read more View the full article

Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has called for help to turn an installation designed for this year's Burning Man into a virtual experience after the desert festival was cancelled due to coronavirus. Read more View the full article