This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series named Designing for Disaster, which will look at how designers and architects can help manage and mitigate natural hazards. More about This week we launched our Designing for Disaster series
This sprawling white concrete house in California is laid out like a "village" of open and enclosed spaces, with architecture by Masastudio and interiors by Kelly Wearstler. More about Kelly Wearstler and Masastudio design California home as a "modern ruin"
Architecture practice BABELstudio has completed Aralar Cottage, a black wooden cabin in the Basque Country with a hinged side that opens the interior to the surrounding forest. More about BABELstudio creates "archetypal" woodland cabin in the Basque Country
The results of The Pay 100's second annual anonymous salary survey suggest an increase in average salaries at the UK's leading studios but significant reported levels of unpaid overtime. More about The Pay 100 reveals "clear increase" in architecture salaries along with "systemic unpaid overtime"
Continuing our Designing for Disaster series, we spotlight Climate Safe Rooms, an initiative that insulates one room in a home as a cost-effective way of preparing low-income homes in Australia for extreme heat. More about Climate Safe Rooms retrofits Australian homes to protect vulnerable residents in extreme temperatures
US architecture practice StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete commercial office building in Medellín, Colombia. More about StudioSC and Base Taller create concrete office building on steep Colombia site
Danish architecture practice 3XN has been selected to create a stepped retail building located along Baltimore's Inner Harbor informed by sailboats. More about 3XN to create stepped building for Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof, along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. More about Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness
A castle-like house by London studio Denizen Works that is vying for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award is the focus of this video, produced by Stephenson&. More about Hundred Acre Wood house resembles object "eroded by the weather"
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed a masterplan for an urban centre near Hangzhou in China, which will be based around a skyscraper-flanked spine.
More about Foster + Partners unveils design for Hangzhou centre around "leafy spine"
Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson's book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. More about Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America's 20th-century "victorious exuberance"
The world urgently needs architects and designers to start prioritising humanitarian projects, writes Cameron Sinclair as part of our Designing for Disaster series. More about "How we respond to disasters tells us a lot about our future"
Architecture studio Perkins&Will has placed a series of greenhouses on top of a concrete structure to create this agricultural research centre in California. More about Perkins&Will crowns Californian research centre with series of greenhouses
US firm Studio Gang has been selected to lead the revitalization of Denver's downtown Civic Center plaza, which will include improvements to a central amphitheatre and promenade. More about Studio Gang selected for first phase of Denver's Civic Center revitalization
Promotion: Festival of Design is set to return to Shanghai in November 2023, bringing with it a diverse programme that aims to inspire both designers and the wider public. More about Festival of Design returns to Shanghai with a spotlight on inclusion and sustainability
Architecture studio WOHA has created a "garden hotel" in Singapore with planted and pool terraces cut into the building's rectangular form. More about WOHA cuts garden terraces supported by green columns into Pan Pacific Orchard hotel
Spanish architecture studio CRÜ has remodelled an old public laundry into a house and studio for a couple in west Barcelona. More about CRÜ transforms public laundry into La Clara house in Barcelona
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing news that architecture studio BIG has completed its first supertall skyscraper in New York City and debating a minimalist pink house in Mexico by César Béjar Studio. More about "No one can afford to live in the city anymore" says commenter about NYC skyscraper
Emergency planner Lucy Easthope explains why she gets "chills at the back of the neck" when hearing that architects are working pro bono on disaster recovery in this interview conducted as part of Dezeen's Designing for Disaster series. More about Disasters "very rarely not a design failure" says expert Lucy Easthope
Our latest series looks at how designers and architects can help manage natural hazards. Dezeen features editor Nat Barker explains why it's time to start Designing for Disaster. More about Disaster is well and truly upon us