Award-winning building destroyed by volcano seven months after completion
An award-winning visitor centre completed last year by Oto Arquitectos on the Cape Verde island of Fogo has been destroyed by a volcano (+ slideshow). More
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Hand-crafted design from across Ireland shown in Ó Exhibition at Tent London
London Design Festival 2015: the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland invited more than 20 designers and craftspeople to contribute to its Ó exhibition at Tent London (+ slideshow). More
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The 10 projects that sum up Chicago's architectural history
Feature: with the first Chicago Architecture Biennial kicking off later this week, Dezeen picks 10 of the projects – past and present – that have helped shape the city that gave birth to contemporary high-rise architecture. More
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Grimshaw Architects to design £100 million Eden Project in China
Grimshaw Architects, the London firm behind bubble-shaped ecological park the Eden Project, has signed a £100 million deal to design a similar scheme named China Eden in Qingdao. More
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RCA in "state of jeopardy" after Design Interactions staff departures
The Royal College of Art has suspended its world-famous Design Interactions course after failing to find replacements for staff who resigned earlier this year. More
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Competition: win tickets to Serpentine Pavilion Retrospective talk with COS and Dezeen
Competition: to celebrate 15 years of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Dezeen has teamed up with fashion brand COS to offer readers the chance to win tickets to a talk with the gallery's co-directors Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. More
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Kate Moss moves into interior design with "retro-glamour" holiday home
Supermodel Kate Moss has become the latest celebrity to launch a design career, creating interiors for a house that forms part of a "luxury second homes" development in the English countryside. More
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Vo Trong Nghia plans trio of towers covered in bamboo plants and linked by bridges
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled plans for a trio of housing towers in Ho Chi Minh City linked by aerial bridges and shielded from the harsh tropical sunlight by swathes of bamboo (+ slideshow). More
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Clothes descend from the ceiling at Schemata Architects' Descente Blanc Tokyo store
Japanese studio Schemata has designed a shop with hanging rails that lower from the ceiling in Daikanyama, Tokyo, for sportswear brand Descente Blanc (+ slideshow). More
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Mischer'Traxler's interactive Curiosity Cloud installation is "like being in a dream"
Small Discoveries: Viennese design duo Mischer'Traxler explain why they filled a room at London's V&A Museum with hundreds of fluttering insects in our latest movie for Champagne brand Perrier-Jouët. More
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San Lucas Pavilion by FRPO is a concrete pool house amongst pine trees
Surrounded by pine trees on the outskirts of Madrid, this concrete structure by Spanish architecture firm FRPO provides shelter and cooking facilities beside a swimming pool (+ slideshow). More
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Onion uses solid ash and plywood to create a monochrome restaurant interior in Bangkok
Furniture and surfaces at this restaurant in Bangkok's EmQuartier shopping precinct are almost exclusively ash, creating a monochrome interior that looks like it's made from balsa wood (+ slideshow). More
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Oscar Diaz designs mirror that can be positioned at four different angles
London Design Festival 2015: London designer Oscar Diaz's Volume table mirror has a multi-angled base that allows it to be placed horizontally and vertically (+ slideshow). More
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Century-old farmhouse on Jeju Island gets a whale-inspired makeover by Z_Lab
South Korean studio Z_Lab has renovated a 100-year-old farmhouse on Jeju island, and renamed it Blind Whale in reference to the curves of its two smooth grey roofs (+ slideshow). More
