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The Victoria and Albert Museum have announced the six proposals for a building to house the V&A on the Dundee waterfront in Scotland, including designs by Steven Holl Architects, Snøhetta and Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An editorial project by London's V&A Museum reflects on objects that have been ascribed new meanings and functions during the coronavirus pandemic. Curator Brendan Cormier selects his highlights. Read more View the full article

Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A museum in London, has defended the institution's decision to exhibit a section of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Read more View the full article

The German director of the V&A museum in London Martin Roth is stepping down after five years, after describing the results of the EU Referendum as a personal defeat. (more…) View the full article

An exhibition at the V&A Dundee explores the evolving relationship between humans and robots. From 1920s sci-fi films to brain-controlled exoskeletons, curator Kirsty Hassard picks five highlights. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: ahead of the launch of the V&A's new design museum in Dundee next year, the organisation has created an online platform to showcase the work of emerging Scottish designers. Read more View the full article

An exhibition exploring the work and enduring legacy of fashion designer Christian Dior opens on Saturday at London's V&A museum. Read more

Architects AL_A have been granted permission to construct a subterranean gallery beneath a new entrance courtyard at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Objects designed to support political activism including a graffiti-writing robot and a giant inflatable cobblestone made to be thrown at police will form the focus of an exhibition opening this summer at London's V&A museum. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: scale reproductions of Nefertiti's bust and a shelter used by refugees in Calais' Jungle are among the myriad replicas of cultural artefacts included in a V&A-curated show about the value of copying (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: London's V&A Museum has added the world's first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection and will exhibit it along with four other newly acquired design objects during the London Design Festival. (more...) View the full article

London's V&A has acquired a pink hat with cat-shaped ears, which became a symbol of the Women's March on Washington following Donald Trump's inauguration. Read more View the full article

News: the architecture and design department at the V&A museum in London has announced a new "rapid response" strategy for collecting objects as soon as they become newsworthy, to reflect the changing way fast-moving global events influence society (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: this Saturday the V&A museum opens its new permanent gallery for furniture, displaying objects from the middle ages to the present day by designers including Thomas Chippendale, Charles and Ray Eames and Ron Arad. (more…) View the full article

London Design Biennale director Christopher Turner has been appointed to lead the architecture and design department at the V&A museum. Read more View the full article

The Non-Pavilion is a London Design Festival installation that barely exists, to make a statement that the world needs to produce less. Read more

An exhibition has opened at London's V&A museum charting the career and legacy of Ove Arup, who "forged a new role for engineers" in the 20th century (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: the Victoria and Albert museum in London are to launch an open international competition this autumn to design an extension to the museum on Exhibition Road - Independent </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A presentation by Cambridge Analytica, portraits generated from DNA and a Facebook drone sit beside each other in a new design exhibition that opens to the public this weekend at London's V&A. Read more View the full article

News: the V&A museum in London will show off its latest contemporary furniture acquisitions during London Design Festival next week, including Joris Laarman’s 2006 Bone chaise and mould (pictured above). (more…) View the full article

Bricks from demolished local buildings were used to construct this museum in Mouscron, Belgium, by architecture studio V+. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve got just two of these limited edition V01 18k watches so you’ll need to be quick to snap one up from Dezeen Watch Store, either online or at The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the latest watch by Swedish designer David Ericsson for VOID, the V01 LED, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and you can also try one on before Christmas at our pop-up The Temporium, where readers get 10% discount on all Dezeen Watch Store products. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s the next house in the series of eleven by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house for a pianist and a violinist in Leiden, the Netherlands, is the latest in a series by Dutch architects Pasel Kuenzel on the site of a former slaughterhouse. (more…) View the full article