In this video produced for Holcim by Dezeen, Norman Foster introduces a housing prototype for displaced people that the Norman Foster Foundation developed with the building materials company and unveiled at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Norman Foster Foundation and Holcim reveal concrete emergency housing prototype
Mankind's relationship to single-use plastics is the focus of the US Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively online as part of a day of pavilion openings. More about US Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale urges visitors to question plastic dependency
A model that imagines a mermaid's view of the rising sea levels features in Coastal Imaginaries exhibition at the Danish Pavilion, which is the first in a series of exclusive Venice Architecture Biennale online pavilion openings. More about Rising sea levels envisioned through eyes of a mermaid at Denmark's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion
New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. More about Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel
French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a brick workshop in Louviers, France, for luxury brand Hermès that is the first industrial building to achieve France's highest environmental labelling. More about Lina Ghotmeh wraps Hermès leather workshop in "galloping arches"
Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has created Copper Blockhouse, a multi-functional cultural space located inside a copper arch in Shanghai, China. More about Wutopia Lab reveals "shimmering whale" Shanghai museum with arched copper shell
From a cantilevered rooftop pool in Marbella to a brutalist home with a swim-up lagoon, here are eight houses that don't relegate swimming pools to the garden. More about Eight houses that integrate swimming pools into their architecture
An event pavilion and aerial tree walk are among the enhancements to Portland's Leach Botanical Garden, which is being upgraded by a team that includes US studios Land Morphology and Olson Kundig Architects. More about Land Morphology and Olson Kundig update Oregon botanical garden
Timber battens and mullions cover the facade of the cross-laminated-timber Spruce House in Walthamstow, London, which was completed in 2021 and is the first built project by local practice Ao-ft. More about Ao-ft inserts mass-timber home into London terrace
The Zaha Hadid Foundation has opened an exhibition about Zaha Hadid's Moonsoon restaurant in Sapporo, Japan. Here, exhibitions officer and curator Johan Deurell selects five highlights from the show. More about Five highlights from Zaha's Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan
In this video produced by Dezeen, architecture studio TP Bennett explains how its fully electric office building in Leeds is designed to "improve the health and wellbeing" of its occupants. More about TP Bennett "sets a very high bar" for sustainability with fully electric Leeds office
The Royal Institute of British Architects has stated its opposition to the Architects Registration Board's proposed architectural education reform plans that would scrap the current three-part structure. More about "Unwise" architectural education reform plan could result in the "closure of schools" says RIBA
In 2023 biophilic architecture has bloomed on Pinterest. We round up 10 projects from our plant-covered buildings board which feature an abundance of nature. More about Ten beautifully biophilic buildings from Dezeen's Pinterest
A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. More about Single concrete column supports One-Legged House in Japan
The tale of Jonah and the Whale informed the design of this house in Chile, which architect Rodolfo Cañas shaped around two gardens. More about Rodolfo Cañas likens "protective" Paire House in Chile to biblical whale
A steel frame and large glazed openings define Rescobie Pavilion, a hillside garden room by Edinburgh studio Kris Grant Architect that overlooks a loch in rural Scotland. More about Rescobie Pavilion by Kris Grant Architect overlooks Scottish loch
Toronto-based studio B+H Architects has created an archival storage facility in Gatineau, Quebec, with a massive double-layer concrete envelope and automated retrieval systems. More about B+H Architects creates archival facility with double-concrete skin in Quebec
New York-based studio Fuller Overby has created a home clad in charred cypress that cascades down a hill to a lake in North Carolina. More about Fuller Overby stacks cypress-wrapped spaces for North Carolina lake house
Spanish studio Office for Strategic Spaces has refurbished a 19th-century housing block in Barcelona, unlocking a previously neglected yard space with a new public courtyard linked by criss-crossing metal walkways. More about Office for Strategic Spaces revitalises historic Barcelona apartment block
David Gianotten and Michael den Otter of Dutch studio OMA have designed a modular, mass-timber system that will be used to construct up to 30 schools in the Netherlands. More about OMA develops "wood plug and play system" for 30 Amsterdam schools