Architecture studios Frida Escobedo Studio and Handel Architects have created a brick tower in Harlem, USA, that contains apartments atop a multi-level arts centre. More about Frida Escobedo Studio and Handel Architects complete brick tower in Harlem
Architecture studio Specht Novak Architects has wrapped a Frank Lloyd Wright-informed house in blackened-wood siding in Pennsylvania, USA. More about Specht Novak Architects reimagines Usonian design for lakefront house
Indian architecture studio Iki Builds has completed Soil and Soul Studio, a home in Hyderabad crafted with a palette of natural, local materials and construction rubble. More about Iki Builds critiques "disposable nature of modern construction" with rural Indian home
Architecture studio Reed Watts is set to create the Museum of Brutalist Architecture as part of a wider renovation of the Grade II-listed Acland Burghley School in north London. More about Brutalist London school to host UK's first brutalist architecture museum
Architecture institutions must respond with action following the UK's Supreme Court gender ruling, Lenny Rajmont, founder of LGBTQ+ architecture group Queerscapes, argues in this interview. More about Architecture profession "must engage" in ensuring safety for trans people says Queerscapes founder
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the conversion of a Florentine barn into a compact home by Italian studio Fōntego Architettura. More about "Green is such a relief in a world of beige!" says commenter
American start-up InventWood claims to have "reinvented wood from the inside out" with a patented process that restructures the material's molecules to make it ten times stronger than regular wood. More about Superwood is a chemically modified wood that is stronger than steel
London-based exhibitions Feel the Sound, Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style and Flowers – Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this August. More about Five architecture and design events in August from Dezeen Events Guide
Stained glass windows and custom wooden shutters filter light inside Six Coffee Wine, a cafe and wine bar recently completed by local practice NAAW Studio in Almaty, Kazakhstan. More about Kazakhstan cafe plays with shifting light from morning to night