Next up in our review of 2019, editor Tom Ravenscroft takes a look back at the most-read stories for every month this year, including alternative designs for Notre-Dame and an interview with Tatiana Bilbao. More about The biggest architecture and design stories of 2019
Civil engineering company Ramboll has worked with locals in Lombok, Indonesia, to build three quake-proof housing prototypes that are made almost entirely out of bamboo. More about Ramboll uses bamboo to build earthquake-resistant housing in Indonesia
Japanese studio Takeru Shoji Architects has completed Hara House, a village home designed to look like a tent. More about Takeru Shoji Architects builds tent-shaped house in Japanese village
Kengo Kuma's Tokyo 2020 Olympics stadium and the Zaha Hadid-designed desert Bee'ah Headquarters are among Lizzie Crook's picks of the most exciting new buildings opening in 2020. More about Twelve buildings to look forward to in 2020
Canadian practice Campos Studio has designed this home in Vancouver for a family with four children, featuring walls of reclaimed brick and an open stairwell filled with nooks, storage spaces and hangout spots. More about Campos Studio arranges Vancouver home around three-storey "toy chest"
An underground concrete house in Monsaraz, Portugal, by Aires Mateus is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof that cantilevers outwards. More about Cantilevering concrete roof emerges from Portuguese hillside house by Aires Mateus
University of Hawaii architecture graduate Joey Valenti has designed prefabricated and low-cost housing units made entirely from invasive albizia trees on the island of Oahu. More about Architecture grad makes affordable prefab homes from Hawaii's invasive trees
Architect Jamie Fobert and graphic designer Peter Saville have received CBEs in the New Year Honours 2020, while designer Sadie Morgan and design advocate Hilary Cottam received OBEs and Forensic Architecture's Eyal Weizman has been made a MBE. More about Jamie Fobert, Peter Saville and Sadie Morgan recognised in Queen's New Year Honours list
Continuing our review of 2019, Benedict Hobson picks out 10 diverse architecture projects from across China, including a collection of wooden huts on a remote mountainside and one of the largest airports in the world. More about Dezeen's top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2019
Cuboid planters containing trees and shrubs protrude from the elevations of this home in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, designed by MIA Design Studio. More about MIA Design Studio covers Vietnamese home with protruding planters
Italian architecture studio Iosa Ghini Associati has worked with Russian firm Mosproekt-3 to complete 47 high-rise buildings clad with colourful panels on the outskirts of Moscow. More about Iosa Ghini Associati counters Moscow's "monotony" with brightly coloured apartment blocks
Continuing our review of 2019, Lizzie Crook spotlights 10 of the best staircase designs from this year including concrete steps intended to attract Japanese spirits and stairs that double as a meeting space. More about Dezeen's top 10 staircases of 2019
Zaha Hadid Architects has won planning permission for the world's first wooden football stadium, which will be built in Gloucestershire, England for football club Forest Green Rovers. More about Zaha Hadid Architects wins approval for world's first all-timber stadium
Bamboo bookshelves line the triple-height atrium of a glass-walled capsule hotel and library in Zhejiang Province, China, by Atelier Tao+C. More about Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves
CEBRA has completed a cave-like prayer centre in Abu Dhabi housed in a landscape of jagged, rock-like forms. More about Prayer hall sits inside a cluster of rock-shaped buildings
For his own residence, California architect Dan Brunn has designed a long, slender home that stretches over a brook on a wooded property in Los Angeles. More about Bridge House by architect Dan Brunn straddles natural stream in Los Angeles
Indian architecture studio Nudes has designed the meandering BookWorm pavilion to encourage reading among children and adults. More about Nudes designs wooden book pavilion to encourage reading in Mumbai
In our latest competition, we're offering our readers the chance to win a week-long retreat for two at Soul & Surf in Sri Lanka. More about Competition: win a week-long retreat at Soul & Surf in Sri Lanka
Chilean architect Alberto Moletto has created a concrete-framed educational facility at a Catholic university that is designed to go "unnoticed for those who walk through the campus". More about Alberto Moletto designs gridded facade for Santiago college building
Our pick of the best Christmas cards we've received from architects, designers and brands this year includes Chris Precht's treehouse and a festive Notre-Dame Cathedral.
More about Christmas cards by architects and designers for 2019