MVRDV's "Seoul High Line" captured in new photographs
Four months after MVRDV revealed its plant-covered walkway on a former elevated highway in Seoul, photographer Jim Stephenson visited the project to see how it is settling into the city. More
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Plans unveiled for London's first purpose-built design district
SelgasCano, 6a Architects and David Kohn Architects are among the eight architecture studios creating buildings for a purpose-built design district at the heart of the new Greenwich Peninsula development in London. More
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Thomas Heatherwick saddened after plans for New York "treasure island" are scrapped
Only a month after the Garden Bridge was scrapped, Thomas Heatherwick's plans for a park on New York's Hudson River have been abandoned – and the designer has described the decision as "really, really sad". More
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Paris deputy mayor questions London's approach to skyscrapers and public space
A project like London's now-abandoned Garden Bridge would "never" happen in Paris, according to its deputy mayor, who has criticised the UK capital's free-market approach to development. More
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Inequality caused by urban renewal is "the central crisis of capitalism" says Richard Florida
The revival of great urban centres including New York, Los Angeles and London has caused unprecedented inequality and has led to the populism of Donald Trump, according to Richard Florida. More
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"Urban design caused the Hurricane Harvey disaster"
Houston's poor urban planning, not climate change, is to blame for the catastrophic flooding following Hurricane Harvey, says disaster expert Ilan Kelman in this Opinion column. More
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Eda Kutluozen proposes affordable housing above tube stations for London's key workers
Royal College of Art architecture graduate Eda Kutluozen's Vertical Open City project proposes inserting dense affordable housing and public spaces into disused sites across London. More
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Earthworm-inspired pavilion stages concerts and light shows in Latvia's floodplains
Didzis Jaunzems Architecture has built a circular pavilion for open-air music and lighting performances, designed to be reminiscent of an earthworm's natural habitat. More
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Tadao Ando surrounds huge buddha statue with lavender-covered mound at Sapporo cemetery
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has concealed a huge stone statue of the buddha within a hill covered in lavender plants at the Makomanai Takino Cemetery in Sapporo. More
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Controversial Iron Ring set to be submerged in landscape beside a Welsh castle
A huge ring-shaped walkway designed by architect George King is set to be built next to Flint Castle in Wales – but has been met with fierce opposition by locals, who see it as symbol of historic oppression. More
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New designs unveiled for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack
The part of Oslo's government quarter damaged during the 2011 terrorist bombing will be replaced by one of two proposals – one by a team including Haptic and Nordic, and another by a team featuring A-Lab and LPO Architects. More
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SOM designs "new skyline" for port area of Sri Lanka's largest city
SOM has won a competition to design a new district for Sri Lankan city Colombo, with a design featuring numerous skyscrapers, a marina, canals and a park, influenced by the country's tropical climate. More
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Asian cities overtaking "impossible" London and "terrible" New York in urban design, says Winy Maas
"Monster cities" in Asia including Seoul, Taipei and Jakarta are racing ahead of western counterparts in terms of architectural vision and urban design quality, according to architect Winy Maas of MVRDV. More
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AART designs pop-up train carriages to rejuvenate an old railway in Aarhus
A single-room hotel, a public greenhouse and a set of polling booths are just some of the unusual functions assigned to a set of train carriages designed by Danish studio AART for an old industrial area of Aarhus. More
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Studio Morison installs origami-like "pineapple" in Berrington Hall's 18th-century garden
Artistic duo Studio Morison has erected a pink pavilion shaped like an origami pineapple in the centre of the 18th-century walled garden of the Berrington Hall country estate in Herefordshire, England. More
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Facebook appoints OMA to masterplan new residential village next to its Gehry-designed campus
Facebook has announced that architecture firm OMA will masterplan a new village for the area adjacent to its Frank Gehry-designed campus in Menlo Park, California. More
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Hong Kong's Skypark rooftop provides a playground for "balance-centric millennials"
Dezeen promotion: entrepreneur Adrian Cheng has worked alongside Dutch architecture studio Concrete to create a new social space in Hong Kong tower Skypark that meets the needs of its youthful residents. More
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Studio Weave installs hikers' shelter on stilts beside a Bordeaux river
Hikers can stay overnight for free at this elevated shelter on the outskirts of Bordeaux, designed by London-based Studio Weave to reference the form and materiality of traditional water towers. More
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18 "rail-to-trail" projects following in the High Line's footsteps
The creators of New York's High Line have launched a platform to advise similar infrastructure reuse projects in the USA. We've rounded up the 18 other schemes in the works, including an OMA-designed bridge with ramps and waterfalls, and an underground park. More
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Norway scraps plans for controversial memorial near site of 2011 Utøya terrorist attack
Plans to cut a "wound" into a Norwegian peninsula in memory of the victims of terrorist Anders Breivik have been abandoned following years of opposition from locals. More