This week on Dezeen, architecture and design looked to the ocean as whales informed the shape of both a wooden chair and a cultural building in China. More about This week designers and architects created whale-shaped furniture and buildings
New York City's mayor has revealed "radical" plans to turn vehicle lanes into cycling paths on two bridges across the East River and build five bicycle streets across the city in response to the pandemic. More about Cycle lanes to be built on New York's Brooklyn and Queensboro Bridges
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti have announced plans to overhaul the 1950s Pirellino office skyscraper in Milan, Italy, and build a plant-lined timber tower beside it. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti to revive Pirellino skyscraper in Milan
This house in the Italian village of Valtournenche was designed by LCA Architetti using mostly natural materials and features a double-pitched roof that evokes the surrounding mountain peaks. More about The Climber's Refuge is a sustainable update of the traditional Alpine chalet
An abundance of bright hues and recycled materials were used by London studio Office S&M to renovate a Georgian townhouse in Islington. More about Office S&M injects bold colours into renovated Mo-tel House in London
Dezeen has launched Dezeen Lookbooks, a new section featuring roundups of home interiors and decor trends to help designers and design lovers plan their projects. More about New Dezeen Lookbooks section presents curated picks of home interiors from Dezeen's archive
In this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards, K-studio co-founder Dimitris Karampatakis and Dexamenes Seaside Hotel CEO Nikos Karaflos explain how they transformed an abandoned wine factory into a luxury resort with minimal intervention. More about AHEAD Global ultimate winner offers "meaningful luxury" in a converted wine factory
Chinese studio Open Architecture has designed a theatre and library at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China within a blue-coloured building that resembles a whale. More about Open Architecture combines library and theatre in "blue whale" Bibliotheater
Fold House is a guest and pool house in Hamilton, Canada, topped with a curving roof of compression-bent oak designed by architecture studio Partisans. More about Partisans tops rebuilt pool house in Ontario with undulating timber roof
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has revealed his ideas for updating the masterplan for the Los Angeles River, which include platform parks on stilts bridging the waterway. More about Frank Gehry teases plans to build raised parks over the Los Angeles River
Textured larch shingles and a mountainous roofscape will define InnHub La Punt, an innovation and community centre that Foster + Partners is developing for Engadin valley in Switzerland. More about Foster + Partners proposes larch-clad innovation hub in the Swiss Alps
UK architecture studio Carmody Groarke has built a circular ticket office and hospitality building for a theatre within Hamburg's concrete Grossmarkt wholesale market. More about Carmody Groarke creates corrugated aluminium ticket pavilion as "distinctive counterpoint" to Hamburg's 1960s fruit market
Sou Fujimoto Architects will collaborate with Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei to design the top section of the supertall Torch Tower skyscraper in Tokyo, which is set to become the tallest building in Japan.
More about Sou Fujimoto Architects and Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei to design crown for Japan's tallest skyscraper
Architecture studio Stufish has revealed its concept for a socially-distanced vertical theatre, which was created in response to the coronavirus pandemic. More about Stufish designs socially distanced Vertical Theatre for "new era of performance venues"
Five cement-clad boxes illuminated from above are hidden within this almost windowless house in Japan's Hyogo prefecture, designed by FujiwaraMuro Architects. More about Skylights replace windows at House with a Light Void by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Croxatto and Opazo Architects has designed two minimalist cabins clad in reclaimed oak set high on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Navidad, Chile. More about Croxatto and Opazo Architects perches timber-clad cabins on coastal hillside in Chile
Demolition of the Paul Rudolph-designed Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina has gone ahead, despite attempts to protest the destruction of the Brutalist landmark. More about Demolition of Paul Rudolph's Burroughs Wellcome building underway in North Carolina
Madrid-based Husos Architects has designed a compact timber cabin near Madrid for one of its co-founders that aims to be sustainable and sensitive to its pine forest setting. More about Husos Architects creates compact Love Shack cabin as founder's home and office
A series of green public spaces will be landscaped around the Water Orton viaducts that Weston Williamson + Partners has designed in Warwickshire for the High Speed Two railway. More about Weston Williamson + Partners designs HS2 viaducts above "community-led orchard"
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani, Studio INI founder Nassia Inglessis and Exploration Architecture founder Michael Pawlyn spoke to Dezeen in a live panel discussion as part of our Design for Life collaboration with Dassault Systèmes. More about Live panel discussion on architecture, nature and technology by Dezeen and Dassault Systèmes