In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece by Matt Shaw that reflects on what went wrong with Thomas Heatherwick's Vessel, two years after it was closed following a series of suicides. More about It is architect's role "to point out health and safety risks" says commenter
Local studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has completed a wooden A-frame house with underground bedrooms in a forested area outside Mexico City. More about PPAA submerges bedrooms underneath A-frame house near Mexico City
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a concept for a Colosseum-like stadium by Apollodorus Architecture. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features design for Colosseum-like stadium in Bath
The University of California has commenced an application process for studios to design student housing for its campus, in what appears to be a move away from its controversial Munger Hall dormitory announced in 2021. More about UCSB begins search for alternatives to mostly windowless Munger Hall dormitory
New York studio SHoP Architects has completed the black and bronze facade of the supertall skyscraper Brooklyn Tower, the tallest building in the borough. More about Brooklyn's first supertall skyscraper reaches completion
Chinese studio Mix Architecture has turned a disused 1950s factory into an updated office and public park in Nanjing, China. More about Mix Architecture refreshes Nanjing Combat Machinery Factory with red brick extensions
Japanese studio Schemata Architects has designed Komaeyu, a public bathhouse in the suburbs of Tokyo that features turquoise tiling, a sauna and a bandai – a bar and reception area for socialising. More about Schemata Architects clads Komaeyu bathhouse in "patchwork" of turquoise tiles
This drone video reveals construction progress on the Red Sea International Airport, which British studio Foster + Partners is designing in Saudi Arabia. More about Drone video reveals construction progress on Saudi airport by Foster + Partners
This exclusive video published by Dezeen reveals the launch of a new global architecture competition to reimagine affordable housing, hosted by construction-scale 3D-printing company ICON. More about ICON launches million affordable housing competition
Pritzker prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza has designed a square watch, the Lebond Siza, which is based on one of his earliest projects and will be his "Sunday watch". More about Álvaro Siza unveils square watch informed by his Leça swimming pool
US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. More about GBBN creates set of housing blocks that reinterpret historic fabric of Cincinnati
The vernacular building techniques of north and south India combine in Hybrid House, a house with rammed-earth walls designed by Sketch Design Studio. More about Sketch Design Studio reinterprets south Indian traditions for Rajasthan house
Blocky volumes clad in roughly textured materials surround a series of courtyards at this home, which Northumberland studio Elliott Architects has created in a village in Yorkshire. More about Elliott Architects arranges textural Hushh House around courtyards
The Dezeen Pinterest board for staircases is consistently one of our most popular boards. We round up eight of the most popular staircases with Dezeen's followers on Pinterest. More about Eight talking-point staircases from Dezeen's pinterest
US studios Starling Architecture and Emily Lindberg Design have collaborated on a minimalist home clad in blackened wood in the Hamptons village of Amagansett that starkly contrasts the surrounding dunes. More about Charred-wood beach house sits among Amagansett's dunes
Architecture studio Ksa Studený designed this trapezoidal concrete and glass house to frame views of a forest near the village of Pernek in Slovakia. More about Ksa Studený completes trapezoidal concrete home overlooking Slovakian forest
Architecture practice Studio Saar has refreshed a run-down and underused park in India with an accessible landscape and a canopy resembling a murmuration. More about Studio Saar crowns Udaan Park in India with canopy of colourful birds
This week on Dezeen, architecture writer Matt Shaw reflected on what went wrong with Heatherwick Studio's Vessel, two years after the 16-storey viewpoint in New York's Hudson Yards was closed. More about This week we marked two years since the closure of Heatherwick's Vessel
Black wood and asphalt shingles clad the exterior of the Polker housing block by architect and developer SinHei Kwok, who took cues from historic "pyramid cottages" while conceiving the project. More about Wood and asphalt wrap Phoenix apartment building by SinHei Kwok
The geometric patterns of Rwandan Imigongo art informed the angular, woven forms of the Komera Leadership Centre, which has been designed by architecture studio BE_Design. More about BE_Design uses angular woven screens to shelter leadership centre in Rwanda