Dezeen Showroom: from wellbeing-enhancing office pods to products that covertly control noise, the following pieces are designed to make workplaces more design- and comfort-forward. More about Twelve products for home offices and workplaces to improve concentration
A fifty-metre-long skylight cuts through the centre of Kitaoka Group Head Office Building, renovated by Tokyo studio Wataru Architects in Mima City, Japan. More about Fifty-metre-long skylight spans length of Kitaoka Group headquarters in Japan
Architecture studio BIG has unveiled designs for a waterfront home for Hamburg State Opera, which will be enclosed by a series of interconnected terraces. More about BIG designs Hamburg State Opera as "landscape of concentric terraces"
Members of Norwegian design collective Fold Oslo have unveiled an assortment of lamps made from found objects and waste materials. More about Fold Oslo creates lighting from kitchen utensils and demolition waste
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art in China, designed by BIG. More about "That roofline is slick" says commenter
The renovated Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen by architecture studios Stallan-Brand and LDA Design, which are shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award, feature in this video by Jim Stephenson. More about Stallan-Brand and LDA Design revitalise Victorian garden in Aberdeen
Italian architecture firm Novembre Studio has completed a polycarbonate padel centre at Milan's CityLife development, which was designed in response to the adjacent CityWave office by BIG. More about Novembre Studio completes Golden Goose Arena at the CityLife development in Milan
Dezeen takes a look inside the late critic Charles Jencks's architectural masterpiece in this video produced by Dezeen for The Cosmic House. More about Dezeen explores postmodernist landmark The Cosmic House
Interiors firm UNC Studio has transformed a traditional wooden house in Kyoto into a Japanese-Mexican fusion cafe and eatery with a bold, all-red interior. More about Challe cafe in Kyoto fuses Mexican and Japanese design
Promotion: British tech company Nothing has launched Phone (3a) Lite, an affordably priced smartphone created to make the brand's distinctive design features available to a broader range of consumers. More about Nothing launches "understated, confident" Phone (3a) Lite
Promotion: German luggage brand Rimowa has announced the fourth edition of the Rimowa Design Prize, an annual programme dedicated to championing the next generation of creatives. More about Fourth edition of Rimowa Student Design Prize opens for submissions
New York-based creative studio Visions2030 has created a trio of domes installed at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, where visitors fabricate a vision of the future via a series of AI prompts. More about Visions2030 installation in Brazil prompts visitors to "imagine hopeful solutions" with AI
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features MVRDV's design for a sports arena in Tirana. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features MVRDV's giant sphere for Tirana sports arena
Mexico City-based studio JSa has adapted a mid-century factory into an office and studio space for its practice, maintaining many industrial details as a "manifesto in regenerative design". More about JSa transforms Mexican factory for its own architecture studio
Photography has revealed the near-complete exterior cladding on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, designed by Chinese studio MAD, ahead of its opening in September 2026. More about "Dream-like" Lucas Museum of Narrative Art by MAD nearing completion in LA
Knife manufacturer Victorinox has teamed up with La Marzocco to release a specialised barista multitool, as shown in this video created for the brand by Dezeen. More about Victorinox and La Marzocco create multifunctional tool for baristas
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish design studio Yonoh worked with acoustic solutions brand Zilenzio to produce Giro, an acoustic room divider that doubles as a low decorative shelf. More about Giro acoustic room divider by Yonoh for Zilenzio
A curved, timber-lined ceiling shelters the fully-glazed living spaces of Harvest House, the extension and renovation of a worker's cottage in Australia by architecture studio Cera Stribley for its founder. More about Cera Stribley shelters cottage extension with curved timber ceiling
Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has designed the UNESCO Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, which will display 600 artefacts that have been stolen or disappeared. More about Diébédo Francis Kéré designs UNESCO museum for stolen artefacts
A paper published in science journal Nature has predicted that the carbon footprint of the global construction industry is set to double by 2050. More about Global construction's carbon footprint projected to double by 2050