NASA has unveiled a conceptual design for a supersonic plane that would be much quieter than Concorde. More about NASA is developing a quiet supersonic passenger jet for overland flights
Architects Le Corbusier, Herzog & de Meuron and Gottfried Semper are depicted in drag to promote a series of talks about the industry's gender imbalance at Swiss university ETH Zurich. More about Architects made up as drag queens to promote Parity Talks series
A long-awaited cultural centre designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti is nearing completion on the site of Les Halles – a historic Parisian marketplace demolished in the 1970s. More about Les Halles to reopen as glass-roofed cultural centre and shopping complex
Business news: UK architecture firm BDP has been bought by Japanese firm Nippon Koei for £102.2 million. More about UK's third-biggest architecture firm BDP bought by Japanese engineering giant
The "world's fastest" road-legal car by Bugatti (pictured), Ole Scheeren's pixelated 314-metre-high skyscraper and BIG's new residential development for Toronto feature in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail.
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To make this Shanghai restaurant feel like a retro American diner, Chinese studio Neri&Hu added bold tiles and an angular roof that overhangs a foldable glazed facade (+ slideshow). More about Neri&Hu bases Shanghai burger restaurant on 1950s diners
Wooden shutters can be drawn across the pigeonhole-style windows of this apartment block in Tehran by local studio TDC Office (+ slideshow). More about Wavy wooden shutters cover gridded apartment block in Iran by TDC Office
Israel's design museum will hold a four-month retrospective covering the prolific output of Japanese studio Nendo and its founder Oki Sato (+ slideshow). More about Design Museum Holon to host Nendo's first major museum retrospective
A glass-enclosed "skyslide" is being added to the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles, offering thrill seekers the opportunity to glide down the building's exterior. More about Glass Skyslide to be added to exterior of California's tallest skyscraper
Dezeen Watch Store: prolific Japanese studio Nendo has unveiled the third design in its series of watches based on architectural drawing tools with the Draftsman Grid 03. More about Nendo's Draftsman 03 Grid watch design is based on technical drawing paper
To celebrate World Book Day, we've rounded up every bookshop ever published on Dezeen – from SelgasCano's concept store based on the fictional Library of Babel to a rainbow display in Rio, where books are arranged by colour rather than by title. Browse all our bookshops »
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Japanese studios Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro have returned to a kindergarten building in Kanagawa Prefecture they designed 42 years ago, updating it to suit modern teaching styles (+ movie). More about Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro's kindergarten features house-shaped reading nooks
Japanese architect Toyo Ito has updated the black version of his spherical mesh Mayuhana lamp so that the pendant now comes in an even darker shade. More about Mayuhana lamp by Toyo Ito now available in an even darker black
The wooden facade of this Toronto property by local practice Williamson Chong Architects is set-back and angled towards a nearby ravine (+ slideshow). More about Williamson Chong Architects adds "carved" facade to Toronto family home