Australian architecture studio Durbach Block Jaggers has unveiled its design for the 6.4-metre-wide Pencil Tower Hotel skyscraper that is set to be built at 410 Pitt Street in Sydney. More about Durbach Block Jaggers reveals "improbably narrow" Sydney skyscraper
A lake house in the Pacific Northwest has received a complete overhaul by American studio Graham Baba Architects, creating a "quiet refuge" that prioritises views of the water. More about Washington home renovation by Graham Baba embraces island setting
Stockholm Design Week, a live-streamed talk with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and MoMA's exhibition about systemic racism in the built environment are among the physical and digital events listed in Dezeen Events Guide taking place in February. More about Five architecture and design events this February from Dezeen Events Guide
Bell Phillips has completed a red-brick extension to a grammar school in Kent, England, featuring gabled facades and architectural details that reference its historic surroundings. More about Bell Phillips designs brick extension to complement Victorian Gothic school buildings
White concrete walls and chimneys feature in this seaside residence that was designed by Fuster + Architects to be able to endure tropical storms. More about Hurricanes inform design of coastal home in Puerto Rico by Fuster + Architects
Catalan architecture office Aixopluc replaced several improvised sheds and porches surrounding an old house in the city of Reus with an extension that utilises a similar palette of low-cost, lightweight building materials. More about Aixopluc completes cork and cross-laminated timber extension to traditional Catalan house
In partnership with The World Around, Dezeen broadcast a programme of live talks featuring Ryue Nishizawa, Liam Young, Alice Rawsthorn and more. You can watch the first part above. More about First instalment of The World Around virtual summit featured talks on storytelling
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