The city of Helsinki has launched a competition to create a new waterfront cultural and leisure district on the South Harbour, which will include a design and architecture museum complex. More about Helsinki calls for proposals to transform Makasiiniranta port into cultural precinct
Architecture studio Inuce has created a church wrapped in 100,000 panes of stained glass that aims to combine "Christian tradition and Chinese local authenticity" in Luoyuan, China. More about Inuce illuminates Chinese church with giant blue stained-glass window
In our latest school show, undergraduate and postgraduate students at The Design Village in India present architecture and design projects ranging from a shelter for cats to an algorithmic learning aid for people with dyslexia. More about The Design Village spotlights 11 student architecture and design projects
Researchers at digital laboratory MIT Senseable City Lab have used handheld 3D-scanning technology to analyse the architecture of Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela. More about MIT Senseable City Lab maps Brazilian favela with handheld 3D-scanners
Art Gensler, the American architect, interior designer and founder of global architecture firm Gensler, has passed away at the age of 85 after a long illness. More about Founder of the world's largest architecture studio Art Gensler dies at 85
Architecture studio MAD has designed a three-venue civic centre in the city of Jiaxing, China, that will be topped with a continuous roof that has the form of a tarpaulin being blown in the wind, according to the studio. More about MAD tops Jiaxing Civic Center with roof shaped like a "tarp blown by the wind"
The Italian government has approved plans designed by architecture studio Labics and Fabio Fumagalli with engineering firm Milan Ingegneria to create a remote-controlled, retractable floor within the Colosseum arena in Rome. More about Plans revealed for Colosseum amphitheatre's retractable floor
UNESCO has unveiled plans to reconstruct the ruined Al-Nouri Mosque complex in Mosul, Iraq, with enclosed gardens, perforated brick buildings and more facilities for women. More about Destroyed Al-Nouri Mosque complex to be rebuilt in Mosul
From a cave-like wine tasting room dug into a Texan hillside to a British Columbia winery clad in weathering steel, here are ten wineries with impressive architecture from across the US and Canada. More about Ten design-led wineries and tasting pavilions from across the United States and Canada
This house near Japan's Mount Asama was designed by READ & Architects for a couple starting their retirement, but it can also be used as a vacation home by their children and grandchildren. More about READ & Architects builds retirement house that doubles as a vacation home in Japanese mountain town
Lilli Hollein, the former director and co-founder of Vienna Design Week, has been named the head of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. More about Lilli Hollein appointed director of Vienna's MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
The coronavirus pandemic has forced many to rethink how they use their homes. Director of London's Museum of the Home Sonia Solicari outlines six ways that future homes could be informed by the past. More about "The home of the future is looking a lot like the home of the past"
Architect Helmut Jahn, who designed the postmodern James R Thompson Center, has been killed while riding his bicycle near his home in a Chicago suburb. More about Architect Helmut Jahn dies in bicycle crash aged 81
Red is the colour of choice for this compact family house on the outskirts of Barcelona, designed by local studio Arquitectura-G to sit on top of a garage. More about Arquitectura-G installs bright red family home on top of garage
Architecture studio New How has created an angular holiday home called Weekend House in Nové Hamry, Czech Republic. More about New How nestles CLT holiday home into Czech Republic mountains
SOA Architectes looked to traditional Arabian houses when designing this contemporary tower in Beirut, which has been completed in spite of the huge explosion that hit the city. More about SOA Architectes adds contemporary Aya Tower to Beirut skyline
This week on Dezeen, a boulder-shaped house in the Netherlands became the first lived-in 3D-printed home in Europe as its first tenants moved in. More about This week the first tenants moved into a 3D-printed home
American architecture firm LOHA has completed a housing block with cedar cladding and a stepped form in a once-rundown Detroit neighbourhood that is undergoing redevelopment. More about LOHA clads John R 2660 apartment building in Detroit with cedar
Photographer Paul Clemence has captured The Spiral supertall skyscraper designed by architecture studio BIG taking shape in New York's Hudson Yards. More about Photos reveal BIG's supertall skyscraper The Spiral under construction in New York
A pedestrian suspension bridge that claims to be the longest in the world, named 516 Arouca and measuring 516 metres in length, has opened in northern Portugal. More about World's "longest pedestrian suspension" bridge opens in Portugal