Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this interview. More about "The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing" says architect Victor Body-Lawson
Project Dove by Toronto studio Agathom Co. was designed to replicate the feeling of a "cottage in the city", offering a variety of spaces for family life that include a greenhouse. More about Agathom equips "cottage in the city" with angular ceilings and a greenhouse
A mixture of curved, pitched and sawtooth roofs creates different spatial qualities in the classrooms of this school in Deyang, China, designed by Beijing-based studio Trace Architecture Office. More about Trace Architecture Office creates school to be "like a cluster of huts in fairy tales"
Greek architectural studio Kapsimalis Architects has designed a hotel in Fira on the island of Santorini using entirely vegan materials and fittings. More about Kapsimalis Architects converts Santorini home into Ethos Vegan Suites hotel
A sinuous facade clad in thin white brickwork defines this house in Sulaymaniyah in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, designed by local practice Zakaa. More about Flowing brick facade creates shaded alcoves for home in Iraqi Kurdistan by Zakaa
This week on Dezeen, RIBA unveiled the 20 homes vying to be named 2022's House of the Year. More about This week we revealed the UK's best homes
Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has released designs for a structure in Miami Beach that will be the studio's first residential tower in the United States. More about Kengo Kuma unveils first US residential tower
Slovenian architecture studio A202 Arhitekti has added a timber-lined extension and mezzanine bedroom to a derelict house in the town of Domžale, Slovenia. More about A202 Arhitekti adds pitched-roof wooden extension to renovated brick house in Slovenia
On the 50th anniversary of Pruitt-Igoe's demolition, it's clear that Charles Jencks declaration that modernism had died was a self-serving myth, writes Catherine Slessor. More about "Reports of modernism's death turned out to be greatly exaggerated"
Vitra Design Museum has collaborated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology to relocate one of Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara's last remaining homes from Tokyo to its architecture park in Weil am Rhein, Germany. More about Vitra relocates Kazuo Shinohara's "geometric" Umbrella House from Tokyo to Germany
Dutch studio MVRDV and local practice StudioPOD have collaborated to convert a disused space beneath a concrete flyover in Mumbai, India, into the One Green Mile linear park. More about MVRDV and StudioPOD create 200-metre-long park beneath Mumbai flyover
Landscape architecture studio Bureau Bas Smets is set to revive the square facing Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris and transform an abandoned underground car park beneath it into a visitor centre that opens onto the river Seine More about Notre-Dame visitor centre set to be built in underground car park
Estudio MMX used a strategy of "stylistic hybridization" to conform to local building guidelines for a four-gabled holiday home with a central skylight in Mexico. More about Estudio MMX tops gabled Mexican holiday home with dramatic skylight
The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features a ribbon-like bridge in Los Angeles. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate newsletter features a ribbon-like bridge
Safdie Architects has oriented a medical centre in Brazil around a massive atrium with a glass ceiling that was designed to evoke "the feeling of being under a tree canopy". More about Safdie Architects vaults glass atrium over indoor garden at São Paulo medical centre
Danish architecture studio BIG and Dutch studio Barcode Architects have unveiled the angular Sluishuis housing block above the IJ lake in Amsterdam's IJburg district. More about BIG and Barcode Architects cantilever housing block over IJ lake in Amsterdam
Architect Tosin Oshinowo has designed the Ngarannam village in northwest Nigeria to replace a settlement destroyed by the Boko Haram terrorist group. More about Tosin Oshinowo creates village in Nigeria for community displaced by Boko Haram
Marcus Fairs, who passed away late last month, changed the way we consume design news, writes Justin McGuirk in this obituary for Dezeen's founder and former editor-in-chief.
More about "Marcus Fairs was undoubtedly one of the design world's pre-eminent power brokers"
Architectural fabrics and meshes draped over a tensile system will form the 2022 MPavilion in Melbourne, which is being designed by Bangkok-based architecture studio All(zone). More about All(zone) reveals design for orange draped-fabric MPavilion
The Energy Revolution exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center aims to demonstrate that the city's buildings need to become much more energy efficient. More about Chicago's buildings "still not as efficient as those built 130 years ago" says Energy Revolution curator