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Steven Holl Architects has designed two glass towers linked by garden bridges, which will become the headquarters for biotech company iCarbonX in Shenzhen, China. Read more

Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni speaks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about his career and his designs for B&B Italia in this talk hosted with the Italian furniture brand. Watch the talk live from 11am New York time. Read more

Architect Jerome Engelking sought to avoid metaphors and "overt symbolism" while conceiving this glass-and-wood holiday home on New York's Long Island. Read more

We've selected the top five roles in architecture, interiors and design on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at Adjaye Associates and Foster + Partners. Read more

Con Form Architects has converted a small London loft into a bright home office by inserting a glazed section with a large steel dormer window. Read more

The outrage over New York's Hudson Yards is not really about ugly glass towers or bad urbanism – although it features both – but an unspoken disquiet that foreign ideas have overtaken a chunk of Manhattan, argues Aaron Betsky. Read more

Herbst Architects has raised a house in Piha, New Zealand, on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland to the beach. Read more

Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute have created six-video investigation into the killing of an African-American barber Harith Augustus by the police for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial. Read more

The fifth annual Medellin Design Week set out to show that Colombia is ready to stop copying and start developing a national design identity. Read more

Dezeen promotion: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created a collections of taps and shower fittings called Axor Edge that are produced using a diamond-tipped cutting machine more often seen in the aerospace and laser industries. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, Dezeen has partnered with Muji to give away five hard-shell suitcases from the Muji to Go travel collection. Read more View the full article

Danish design company Skagerak has partnered with design duo Included Middle on an outdoor furniture collection called Gerda, inspired by traditional red and white tablecloths. Read more View the full article

Mexican firm Reyes Rios + Larrain Arquitectos has covered the walls of an apartment complex in Tulum in stucco that is pigmented pink to contrast pockets of greenery. Read more View the full article

A 1980s building designed by the late architect IM Pei to house Indiana University's art collection has received a sensitive update by Ennead Architects and architect Susan T Rodriguez that includes a new skybridge, entrance and facilities. Read more View the full article

Burning Man is continuing with plans to host its summer festival despite a number of large-scale events like the Olympics being postponed because of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

A set of roaming artificial islands designed by Marshall Blecher and Studio Fokstrot are set to be built in Copenhagen's harbour. Read more View the full article

Orla Lawn introduces Spelk, a series of smooth and splintered architectural surfaces, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Zozaya Arquitectos has created a traditional palapa with a dried palm roof at the centre of this house in a Mexican beach village. Read more View the full article

London studio APA have completed the interior of a store in Milan for fashion designer Stella McCartney, which features sculptural metal rails and herringbone flooring in different tones and colours. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Grohe's Patrick Speck discusses the potential of touchless bathroom and kitchen products in light of the coronavirus pandemic in this video produced by Dezeen as part of our VDF x Grohe collaboration. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Italian brand Fornasetti has unveiled a range of furniture and lighting for the living room that is covered in unpublished sketches and handwritten messages drawn by the brand's founder, Piero Fornasetti. Read more View the full article

Hong Kong designer Michael Young has created a collection of computer bags for Chinese brand Zixag. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with publisher Gestalten to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Container Atlas: a Practical Guide to Container Architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie made to coincide with the Design Museum’s Sustainable Futures exhibition, exhibitors at London graduate show New Designers talk about their views on green design.Can’t see the movie? Click hereThe video features an interview with designer Sophie Thomas from the Design Museum’s advisory board, plus graduate designers Sebastian Cox, Tortie Hoare, Rich Pearson, Tom Broadbent, [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Belgian designer Hubert Verstraeten of Tamawa will present these watches made of Bakelite at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article