In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a rammed-earth public toilet in Japan designed by local studio Tono Mirai Architects. More about "That roof structure looks delicious" says commenter
With just over three weeks left to enter Dezeen Awards 2024, we spoke to last year's sustainability winners about how their success led to attention and new clients. More about Dezeen Awards is a "stamp of approval" says past sustainability winner
Curator Carlo Ratti and president of the Venice Architecture Biennale Pietrangelo Buttafuoco have announced Intelligens Natural Artificial Collective as the title and theme of the event's nineteenth edition. More about Venice Architecture Biennale reveals theme for 2025 edition
Architects should finally acknowledge that the profession is no longer a guaranteed route to prosperity and unionise, writes Phineas Harper. More about "Why do so many architects think they are more privileged than they really are?"
The founders of Spanish studio Masquespacio have transformed a traditional Valencian farmhouse into their self-designed home and studio, with maximalist interiors that nod to the Memphis movement. More about Masquespacio founders create home and office where "everything revolves around play"
Promotion: XL Extralight showcased its manufacturing process in a Dropcity exhibition designed by Italian architect Andrea Caputo as an "immersive museum itinerary" during Milan design week. More about XL Extralight exhibits sole and foam-making process at Milan design week
Pupils from The Piggott School in Reading, England, have won the Design Museum's Design Ventura competition with a card game that encourages children to learn about colours in their surroundings. More about Schoolchildren merge Uno and I Spy in award-winning card game
Italian architecture studio Carlo Ratti Associati has proposed a replacement design for the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore following its collapse in early 2024. More about Carlo Ratti Associati proposes replacement for collapsed Baltimore bridge
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Aston Martin's first residential skyscraper. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features Aston Martin skyscraper in Miami "using a brand name as a shield"
In this video, Dezeen previews the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's latest blockbuster fashion exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, following last night's Met Gala. More about The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils Sleeping Beauties exhibition spanning four centuries of fashion
A series of "monumental" concrete columns frame views across a large garden at this house in Dulwich, London, extended by local studio Proctor & Shaw. More about Proctor & Shaw expands Dulwich House with concrete extension overlooking garden
The slaughterhouses and abattoirs in this roundup, originally built for slaughtering animals, have been transformed into galleries, breweries and cooking schools. More about Six former slaughterhouses reimagined for new purposes
Amsterdam studio More Architecture used a large zigzagging roof to shelter Floating Hotel, which is dramatically positioned among the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping, China. More about More Architecture perches Floating Hotel among Chinese mountains
Dezeen Showroom: designer Gordon Guillaumier combined solid wood and smoked glass in the Pols table, created for Italian brand Alf DaFrè. More about Pols table by Gordon Guillaumier for Alf DaFrè
Sportswear brand Nike is developing its own generative AI model to design products using its vast bank of athlete data, Dezeen can reveal. More about Nike developing AI model as part of design "step change"
Dutch designer Gijs Schalkx has retrofitted an old car to run on an unusual fuel source: waste plastic that is turned back into oil. More about Gijs Schalkx converts car to run on plastic waste
Fashion designer Christian Louboutin, architect Keith Griffiths and designers Lisa Jones, Ruby Kean and Jomo Tariku have joined as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. More about Christian Louboutin and Jomo Tariku named judges for Dezeen Awards 2024
Architecture studio EBBA has completed a store for coffee brand WatchHouse that draws on modernist design to provide a calming environment in the heart of the City of London. More about EBBA references modernist architecture at WatchHouse coffee shop
Mexican architect Carlos H Matos has completed a concrete house designed to be an "ode to antiquity" and "futurity" in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. More about Carlos Matos references Mexico's "profound transformations" in secluded retreat
Local architecture practice Dubrovska Studio has created a fitness studio lined with curtains and outfitted with custom furniture made from materials sourced from around Kyiv in the face of wartime shortages. More about Dubrovska Studio uses "leftovers" in Kyiv to furnish local dance studio