Nonconformists have a crucial role in shaping British architecture, says the curator of a new Royal Academy exhibition on the work of 12 "maverick" architects. More
Architect Gabriel Calatrava, son of Santiago Calatrava, has designed a rope installation for a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's chamber music for the 92Y cultural center in New York (+ slideshow). More
Indian firm Studio Mumbai has been selected to design Melbourne's next MPavilion, an annual commission touted as Australia's answer to London's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More
Stirling Prize winner Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to design some of the housing that will replace Robin Hood Gardens, the historic east-London estate by Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson. More
Stockholm 2016: a range of international names have created products for a label created by Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune, which offers designers an alternative to the traditional royalty model (+ slideshow). More
Rotterdam firm MVRDV has revealed plans to overhaul 600 hectares of Caen, the French city where William the Conqueror built his castle, creating housing, offices and numerous leisure attractions (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen promotion: a series of talks hosted by industry figures including design duo Barber & Osgerby (pictured) and OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu takes place as part of Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair this week. More
Bjarke Ingels Group has released a conceptual design for its latest project in New York, an office skyscraper wrapped in a ribbon of green terraces (+ movie). More
BIG founder Bjarke Ingels says he is "honestly impressed" by young job applicant Étienne Duval, whose covering letter is an animated rap that has become a YouTube sensation (+ movie). More
Each stone that makes up this fan-shaped memorial by Koishikawa Architects represents one of the 18,000 victims of Japan's most powerful earthquake (+ slideshow). More
Sou Fujimoto, David Chipperfield and Manuelle Gautrand are among the winning architects in a competition seeking innovative design proposals for 23 sites across the French capital (+ slideshow). More
See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Francis Bitonti Studio and PK Arkitektar in Reykjavík, whose projects include turf layered cottages in south-west Iceland (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with the University of Miami School of Architecture, Innocent Drinks, Grimshaw and more... More
Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' new wing for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, a project that was first announced in 2013 (+ slideshow). More
It's Chinese New Year! To celebrate the beginning of the year of the monkey, we're revisiting some of the best new Chinese architecture on Dezeen, including the world's second tallest building, a sinuous opera house by MAD, and Kengo Kuma's folk-art galleries for the China Academy of Arts. See more new Chinese architecture »
Architecture studio Hall McKnight has completed a house bridging a stream in Holywood, Northern Ireland, which also features a colonnade-like facade incorporating tall vertical windows (+ slideshow). More
Pink terrazzo is used alongside natural wood, grey velvet and nickel fixtures inside this Singapore restaurant completed by Barber and Osgerby's Universal Design Studio (+ slideshow). More
Stockholm 2016: German designer Konstantin Grcic's debut range of tiles for ceramics brand Mutina feature embossed patterns, and contrasting matte and gloss surfaces (+ slideshow). More
Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata gave this ridged metal residence in Kobe a staggered plywood interior and a broad pitched roof that follows the sloping terrain (+ slideshow). More