An ancient room soaked entirely in red and a plywood gateway based on a lost Roman arena were among the installations erected across Turkey's largest city for Global Design Forum Istanbul. More about Six installations from the inaugural Global Design Forum Istanbul
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the Stratos Hyperscale Data Center in Utah, designed by Gensler. More about "Welcome to our brave new world, I suppose" says commenter
The Salone del Mobile fair stand of Italian tapware brand QuadroDesign is on its way to Masala, Zambia, having been designed by Giacomo Moor to have a second life as a public bathroom. More about QuadroDesign sends Salone booth to Zambia to become public bathroom
Architecture studio Lanza Atelier explains how the history of the Serpentine Pavilion informed the design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion in this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen. More about Lanza Atelier draws on historic "crinkle-crankle" walls for Serpentine Pavilion 2026
Achitecture studio Gensler has released renderings of Thistle Data Center Campus, a hyperscale data centre in Arizona, USA, with a weathering steel facade. More about Gensler designs Corten data centre to have "meaningful civic contribution"
Dezeen Events Guide launches its digital festival guide for the 2026 edition of 3 Days of Design, taking place in Copenhagen from 10 to 12 June. More about Dezeen Events Guide launches guide to 3 Days of Design 2026
US Department of Transportation secretary Sean P Duffy and national transportation company Amtrak have selected a team led by developers Halmar and Skanska to renovate New York City's Penn Station. More about US government and Amtrak select team for Penn Station redevelopment
Local studios Svendborg Architects and Wohlert Arkitekter have completed Ishøj Theatre in Denmark, designing a timber-clad facade with curved openings that evokes stage curtains. More about Timber wraps around "magical and out-of-the-ordinary" children's theatre in Denmark
Our parametricism series has explored the architectural theory controversially touted by Patrik Schumacher as the defining style of the 21st century. To round things off, Tom Ravenscroft measures the movement's impact. More about How parametricism changed architecture but not buildings
The Centre Pompidou Hanwha designed by French architecture studio Wilmotte & Associés has been revealed ahead of its opening in Seoul, South Korea, next month. More about Translucent Centre Pompidou Hanwha set to open in Seoul
Architecture studio Kengo Kuma & Associates and landscape design office Field Operations have released designs for a vernacular expansion to the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art outside of Philadelphia, USA. More about Kengo Kuma & Associates designs its first museum building in the US for Pennsylvania
Argentina studio Además Arquitectura has completed a blocky concrete house protected by a rounded privacy wall in a suburban area of Buenos Aires. More about Además Arquitectura encloses Buenos Aires house with wall for "introspective approach"
Chinese architecture studio Büro Ziyu Zhuang has created Prairie Ark, a public gallery resembling a flying saucer that has touched down on grassland in Inner Mongolia, accompanied by a viewing tower. More about Büro Ziyu Zhuang creates UFO-shaped gallery in grassland in Inner Mongolia
Architect Daniel Oakley has released videos of the first 3D computer models created at Zaha Hadid Architects, exclusively revealed here as part of our parametricism series. More about Unseen videos reveal Zaha Hadid's first digital designs
Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen and Leonardo Gúzman Valencia in Chile have collaborated on a prototype for modular housing lifted on stilts with clearly separated building components that respond to changing site conditions and allow for flexibility. More about Chilean modular housing protoype uses stilts to traverse difficult site
Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its interiors and improving its connection to the surroundings with corrugated-metal canopies. More about YNAS uses timber-framed canopies to reconnect Japanese home with the outdoors
Parametricism is not what humanity needs from architecture in the 21st century, writes Catherine Slessor as part of our series on the style. More about "Parametricism is a technophile triumph of fetishised process over outcome"
New York studio Selldorf Architects and Paris-based Studios Architecture have won the competition to design the biggest renovation to the Musée du Louvre for 35 years. More about Selldorf Architects and Studios Architecture set to add subterranean entrances to Musée du Louvre
British studio Foster + Partners is set to stand trial over alleged health and safety failings at The Corniche towers in London, after a man was killed in 2018 by a window pane that fell from the building's penthouse. More about Foster + Partners faces court over fatal window fall from London high-rise
London studio Waugh Thistleton Architects has constructed a wooden pavilion that is cube-shaped on the outside but spherical on the inside for Global Design Forum Istanbul. More about Waugh Thistleton builds "simple and repetitive" timber pavilion on grounds of historic Istanbul palace