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This week a staircase for dogs has been our most popular on Dezeen and most-shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. (more…) View the full article

Piles of buildings featured heavily on Dezeen this week, including Edouard François’ stack of townhouses, apartment blocks and bungalows (above), plus we’ve picked out our favourite Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more…) View the full article

The relentless march towards a 3D-printed world continued this week with news of a 3D-printed dress (above) and a 3D-printed car. Read on for more highlights of the week and our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

The visitor centre for ancient archeological site Stonehenge opened to the public this week. Our roundup of architecture and design news follows, along with the Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

News dominated this week as Shigeru Ban was awarded the Pritzker Prize, Facebook invested $2 billion in virtual reality, and Marc Newson described the design industry as "really pathetic". Read on for more architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick was accused of copying the design for the Olympic Cauldron just days after being awarded a CBE for services to the design industry. Read on for more architecture and design news from the last seven days plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

3D printing dominated Dezeen again this week with the news that Foster + Partners is exploring the possibilities of 3D printing buildings on the moon using lunar soil. Scroll on for more highlights of the week in architecture and design plus track of the week from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

This week Google unveiled a collection of spectacles and sunglasses frames for its Google Glass augmented reality headset (pictured), and we spoke to lead designer Isabelle Olsson about the technology's development. Read on for our architecture and design news roundup of the past seven days. (more...) View the full article

A couple of large-scale projects reached completion in China this week, including OMA's Shenzhen Stock Exchange and MAD's horseshoe-shaped hotel in Huzhou (pictured). Scroll on for more architecture and design news, as well as our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week we reported on Li Edelkoort's claim that fashion is dead, Ikea's new furniture range that wirelessly charges smartphones and a photography series documenting Turkey's vibrant architecture (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen Thomas Heatherwick designed an interior for an abbey with curving walnut and ash choir stalls and Dutch architects MVRDV unveiled proposals for a hotel covered in flowers inside a giant greenhouse. The Campana brothers wrapped a furniture showroom with faceted aluminium plant holders and a glass-clad spa encircling a tree was popular with Dezeen readers. Many of the designs for the London 2012 Olympic posters by leading UK artists failed to impress, while graphic designer Sarah Hyndman’s conceptual alternatives replaced the Olympic rings with everyday objects. Stocking-shaped blood packs that encourage people to give blood for Christmas were descri…

This week we published a beautifully remodelled church by minimalist John Pawson, only to have our wrists slapped for calling him an architect. More picks from the week in architecture and design follow, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week Marc Newson unveiled the camera he designed for Japanese brand Pentax and Nike launched a wristband that can tell whether you’ve done any exercise. Meanwhile, Austrian designer Nina Levett caused a stir with a trio of provocative videos that show her at work in her studio. Zaha Hadid signed an agreement to design new headquarters for an Iraqi bank, whilst the Royal College of Art in London announced that architect Charles Walker and designer Ab Rogers will be leading their architecture and interior design departments in the forthcoming summer term. A large metal slide convinced a few readers that they’d like to work at Lego’s Denmark office, but some felt th…

This week architects have been unveiling concepts for the redevelopment of New York’s Grand Central Terminal and SOM’s ring-shaped observation deck sliding up and down two skyscrapers proved the most controversial for our commenters, who set about mocking up some hilarious alternative renderings. (more…) View the full article

This week Dezeen has been all about skyscrapers, with towers by 15 of the world’s most famous architects for a new business district in Seoul plus a timelapse movie and interview with architect Renzo Piano as his 300 metre-high tower The Shard nears completion in London. (more…) View the full article

This week Dezeen have been at the London Design Festival, where we opened Dezeen Space in Shoreditch and officially launched the Dezeen Book of Ideas. Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by so far! Ron Arad was presented with the London Design Medal 2011, Tom Dixon hosted a discussion on the state of manufacturing in Britain and Marcel Wanders launched a range of products for British retailer Marks & Spencer. Other attractions include David Chipperfield’s metallic glass pavilions on the Southbank and greenhouse made of Lego in Covent Garden. Meanwhile the Firstsite arts centre by Rafael Viñoly has opened in Colchester and a concrete house in Sri Lanka by T…

This week Dezeen relocated to Milan for the city's annual design week, where we've been reporting on product launches from Zaha Hadid, Ron Arad, Studio Job (above), Konstantin Grcic and more, plus we kicked off the second leg of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour by taking a drive around town with designer Fabio Novembre and set up a TV studio in a car wash. Read on for more highlights of the week and our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen we featured a couple of intriguing aviation stories: our readers were amused and bemused by a transportation concept resembling a floating inflatable cloud, while Foster + Partners completed the world’s first commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Meanwhile, a proposal for an office completely covered in digital adverts drew unfavourable comparisons to sci-fi film Bladerunner and two universities got new digs: a former granary was transformed by Stanton Wiliams into a campus for Central Saint Martins in London and Steven Holl Architects released images of an aluminium clad sports centre for Columbia University that is under construction in Ne…

This week One World Trade Center topped out in New York, where we've just landed for our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Read on for a recap of what Zaha Hadid, OMA, BIG and Herzog & de Meuron have been up to in the last seven days, plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week Zaha Hadid denied responsibility for migrants working on her stadium in Qatar, while her aquatics centre for the London 2012 Olympics (pictured) is set to open to the public. More architecture and design from the past seven days follows, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This week a team of London-based designers unveiled a 3D-printing pen that allows users to create solid doodles in the air (pictured) and preservationists proposed a system to safeguard Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House from flood damage. Read on for more of the week's top architecture and design news, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

This week high-profile architects have been making the news, as Frank Gehry completed two homes for hurricane victims (above) and Zaha Hadid revealed designs for a limited edition speedboat (below). (more…) View the full article

We've reached the final week of the year and and to get into the holiday spirit we've been publishing festive projects that include computer equipment and games consoles that sing Christmas carols and a series of geometric street lights in Berlin (pictured). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's latest skyscraper project (pictured), Apple's leaked iPhone 6 design and Ikea's "Bookbook" spoof dominated the news this week. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

We published a series of plant-covered buildings this week, including a living facade on a five-storey Parisian block. Keep reading for more highlights and this week's Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article