Dezeen School Shows: a lighting collection designed to replicate human features and emotions is among the projects by students from Aalto University. More about Lighting collection conveying human emotions among projects from Aalto University
Architect Danish Kurani has developed a prototype for a "connected" classroom, designed to enable expert teachers to remotely provide lessons to students in rural communities. More about Connected Classroom by Danish Kurani allows teachers to reach rural students in Alabama
New Zealand studio Bull O'Sullivan Architecture has perched a compact aluminium-clad chapel on a hillside overlooking the Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch. More about Bull O'Sullivan Architecture perches tiny chapel on New Zealand hillside
For our latest lookbook, we've collected hair salons that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional, including a salon with a galvanised-steel sound wall and one with a "dripping shampoo" ceiling. More about Eight hair salons that are a cut above
Australian designer Georgina Davies has used MDF to create a series of linear furnishings that challenges expectations of the basic building material. More about Undressed collection by Georgina Davies reveals "unexpected warmth and richness" of MDF
Bright yellow upholstery and formica pops against a 1970s colour palette inside this sandwich shop in Montreal, designed by local studio MRDK. More about "Understated nostalgia" defines Montreal sandwich shop by MRDK
Dezeen School Shows: a modular panelling system created with cork is among the projects from Istituto Europeo di Design. More about Cork panelling system that "invites a quieter way of living" among projects from Istituto Europeo di Design
Exposed blockwork walls are contrasted by screens of lightweight steel and blackened timber at SKI House in Wānaka, New Zealand, created by local studio Roberts Gray Architects. More about Roberts Gray Architects marries blockwork and charred timber for New Zealand home
Looking to up your kerb appeal? Here are nine examples of distinctive front doors from homes around the world that are guaranteed to make a good first impression. More about Nine front doors that give homes a unique personality
The latest US edition of Dezeen Agenda features president Donald Trump's proposal for a triumphal arch in Washington DC and Grafton Architects' first mass-timber building for the University of Arkansas. Subscribe today! More about Dezeen Agenda US edition features Trump's proposal for a triumphal arch in Washington DC
This week on Dezeen, the "hopeful and imaginative" Appleby Blue Almshouse social housing complex in London by local studio Witherford Watson Mann Architects won the 2025 Stirling Prize. More about This week we revealed this year's Stirling Prize winner
Local art collective Xpan has created a store in Guadalajara lined with modular aluminium shelving that can be rearranged and shifted depending on the needs of the space. More about "Metabolic systems" inform modular Guadalajara store by Xpan
Dezeen Showroom: these lighting designs have recently been listed on our Showroom section. They range from a lamp for bedrooms that encourages healthy habits and a collection based on signals and beacons. More about Six shining examples of lamps and lights on Dezeen Showroom
Susan T Rodriguez has designed a revitalised recreational facility in Central Park, rebuilding a 1960s ice rink and pool and reconnecting the park's natural waterways in the centre of New York City. More about Central Park recreation facility designed as "ultimate fusion of landscape and architecture"
Local clay and rubble from buildings razed during Apartheid were fired into bricks and fittings for the Rahmah Library in Cape Town, South Africa, completed by local studio The MAAK. More about The MAAK incorporates Apartheid-era demolition rubble into Cape Town school library
Dutch Design Week kicks off in Eindhoven tomorrow. Ahead of northern Europe's biggest design festival, we have rounded up 10 installations and exhibitions to look out for during the city-wide event. More about Ten things to look forward to at Dutch Design Week 2025
Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London's Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. More about Uchronia designs celadon-hued suite at Mandarin Oriental hotel as "weird underwater world"
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a wood-lined diabetes health centre in Copenhagen created by Danish studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. More about "A cathedral of wood" says commenter
London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill, combining hotel stays and residences under the same roof. More about Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building by AHMM and TiggColl
As part of Designers' Saturday festival in Oslo, curators Kirsten Visdal and Per Olav Sølvberg displayed an array of vintage and contemporary Nordic design objects in the home of artist Paul Hellsegg. More about Zeitgeist 2.0 exhibition transforms artist's home into showcase for "new Norwegian design movement"