Dezeen promotion: research conducted by Europe's largest roofing and waterproofing company, BMI Group, reveals the opportunities presented by cool roof systems. More about BMI Group's "cool roofs" reduce interior temperatures while benefitting the environment
Furniture Pavilion S is a modular structure that Rooi created for a Chinese trade show, before recycling its plywood body into chairs and tables. More about Trade show pavilion transformed into furniture for rural Chinese community
With Burning Man 2020 taking place in virtual format, architect John Marx and artist Absinthia Vermut have created a digital tour of the museum-like pavilion they had designed for the event. More about John Marx and Absinthia Vermut create virtual experience of Burning Man pavilion
Two weeks after a giant explosion destroyed large parts of Beirut, architects and designers are pondering how to rebuild their lives and businesses, with some considering leaving the city for good. More about Beiruti architects and designers assess damage to their "shattered" businesses after devastating explosion
The president and CEO of Autodesk has responded to criticisms of its Revit software, admitting improvements "didn't progress as quickly" as they should have but rejecting claims it is too expensive. More about Revit software costs "reasonable" says Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost
Dorte Mandrup has revealed visuals of a museum in Berlin that will create a backdrop to the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof station and tell stories of the people who fled the Nazi regime. More about Dorte Mandrup's Exilmuseum Berlin will facilitate "understanding of exile"
Slender grey brick walls protrude from the front of fine arts museum Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga created in the Lausanne city centre. More about Barozzi Veiga designs Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne with ridged brick facade
Architecture studio OA+ has threaded a path through this adobe brick and wood house in Envigado, Colombia that leads from its entrance to woodland at the rear. More about Casa Carmen's green roofs merge with hill and forest in Colombian neighbourhood
Latin American architecture firm Gómez Platero has unveiled a design for a circular monument in Uruguay to remember coronavirus victims. More about Gómez Platero designs World Memorial to the Pandemic for Uruguayan coast
James Dyson and his wife Deirdre are to open their private art collection to the public in a gallery that WilkinsonEyre's founder, Chris Wilkinson, has designed for their UK home. More about Dyson family to make art collection public in home gallery by Chris Wilkinson
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has announced its plans to renovate a deteriorating concrete building in Shenzhen, China, to create the If Factory offices and a maze-like roof garden. More about MVRDV to convert disused Shenzhen factory into creative office space
A maze of board-marked concrete walls encloses this public toilet in Tokyo, which interior design studio Wonderwall created for the Tokyo Toilet project and modelled on prehistoric Japanese architecture. More about Concrete Tokyo toilet by Wonderwall references primitive Japanese huts
In this week's comments update, readers are impressed by Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store and sharing their views on other top stories. More about "Foster must keep the A-team for its Apple store designs" say commenters
Architecture firms Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen have unveiled proposals competing for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, with designs that draw on the surrounding, rugged Badlands. More about Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen unveil designs for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
The architecture profession needs to face up to the fact that it is dominated by those that went to private schools, according to Open City director Phineas Harper. More about Architecture "is more elitist than the most elite university in the world" says Phineas Harper
Dutch architecture studio Waterstudio.NL has created a solar-powered electric yacht-cum-villa with retractable stilts that allow it to be raised fully out of the water to become an off-grid home. More about Waterstudio.NL designs yacht villa that can be raised out of the water
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki has designed a facility for the Tokyo Toilet project, replacing a public restroom in Tokyo's "Octopus Park" with a new design topped with a thin white roof that it has dubbed the Squid Toilet. More about Fumihiko Maki tops Tokyo toilet with "cheerful roof"
Design collective Framestudio has completed the renovation of this mid-century house near San Francisco, which was designed by architect Henry Hill in a boomerang shape around a swimming pool. More about Renovated Californian house Ridgewood pays homage to its "flamboyant" modernist architect
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed two public toilets for the Tokyo Toilet project with transparent glass walls that become opaque when they are occupied. More about Shigeru Ban designs pair of transparent public toilets in Tokyo
A staircase punctured with rectangle-shaped holes is the focal point of this two-storey extension Grey Griffiths Architects has added to a workers' cottage in west London. More about Step House extension built around perforated birch-ply staircase