British designer Samuel Ross is exhibiting a series of massive furniture pieces made from stone, metal and wood at Friedman Benda gallery for NYCxDesign, representing his lived experience of the African diaspora in the UK. More about Samuel Ross references modernist playgrounds and housing blocks for Coarse
American architecture studios Gensler and Civilian have restored the historic Book Depository building in Detroit and transformed it into the headquarters for technology company Newlab. More about Gensler and Civilian transform 1930s Detroit post office into workspace and technology centre
Dezeen is hosting events with several international brands during NYCxDesign, with talks and social events throughout the city, including conversations with Tom Dixon and Luca Nichetto and parties with Japanese brand Muji and local design gallery TRNK. More about Dezeen teams up with WantedDesign, Muji, Lladró and more for New York's design week
A 36-metre-long brise soleil has been covered with screens showing the colonial history of tropical modernism at the Applied Arts Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Applied Arts Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale aims to "complicate the history of tropical modernism"
Dezeen Showroom: design duo and brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have created a sleek wooden dining table for Japanese furniture brand Koyori that "rethinks modelled plywood furniture". More about Usurai table by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Koyori
Promotion: as part of Salone del Mobile 2023, Italian furniture brand Pedrali has released a number of products in collaboration with Italian and international designers for both residential and contract environments. More about Pedrali launches six fresh furniture designs to celebrate 60-year anniversary
Dezeen Showroom: designer Patricia Urquiola has developed a collection of outdoor rugs and seating modules for Spanish brand Gan, which reference knitted jumpers. More about Mangas Outdoor rugs and seating by Patricia Urquiola for Gan
The Australia pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is exclusively revealed here, features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown. More about Australia's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion "questions the relics of the British Empire"
Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week. In this exclusive interview, curator Lesley Lokko explains why she placed Africa at the heart of the festival for the first time. More about Africa a "powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century" says Venice curator Lesley Lokko
Moving calligraphic scrolls will continually plot the response of visitors to a series of questions about architecture's intangible qualities at the Singapore's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively here. More about Visitors' experiences of cities to be plotted on moving calligraphic scrolls at Singapore's Venice pavilion
Dezeen Showroom: British furniture manufacturer Allermuir has released a stackable plywood stool named Ooty, created by London-based design duo SmithMatthias. More about Ooty stool by Allermuir
Designer Mac Collins is among those exhibiting works at the British Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which celebrates how global diasporic communities design space. More about British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale encapsulates "the incredible diversity we experience in Britain everyday"
In this week's comments update, readers discussed Tilly Talbot, a designer powered by artificial intelligence, as well as other top architecture and design stories. More about "What happened to the concept of human beings collaborating on a design" asks commenter
Architects Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and Gregg Pasquarelli, climate pioneer Naveed Chaudhry, curator Samta Nadeem and photographer Taran Wilkhu have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2023 judges. More about Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and Gregg Pasquarelli named Dezeen Awards 2023 judges
A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world's unsustainable approach to sanitation. More about Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale "declares the death of the flushing toilet"
In this video produced for Holcim by Dezeen, Norman Foster introduces a housing prototype for displaced people that the Norman Foster Foundation developed with the building materials company and unveiled at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Norman Foster Foundation and Holcim reveal concrete emergency housing prototype
Dezeen has teamed up with Material Bank for a live panel talk next week in London exploring how its easy-access platform is changing the way that architects and designers specify materials. More about Attend a talk exploring how Material Bank can support the design industry
Mankind's relationship to single-use plastics is the focus of the US Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively online as part of a day of pavilion openings. More about US Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale urges visitors to question plastic dependency
A model that imagines a mermaid's view of the rising sea levels features in Coastal Imaginaries exhibition at the Danish Pavilion, which is the first in a series of exclusive Venice Architecture Biennale online pavilion openings. More about Rising sea levels envisioned through eyes of a mermaid at Denmark's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion
Dezeen Showroom: Belgian flooring brand Modulyss reflected on Flemish landscapes and identity to create the Heritage collection of tactile carpet tiles. More about Heritage carpet tiles by Ruben De Reu for Modulyss