Architecture studio MAD has designed a "giant mattress" at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture that comforts people standing next to it by illuminating and releasing cooling water mist. More about MAD unveils interactive Breathing Cells sculpture at Seoul Biennale of Architecture
Living spaces richly finished with varieties of Italian marble lie behind the opaque facade of this house in Victoria, Australia, conceived by designer David Hicks. More about Windowless facade conceals "quiet grandeur" of Woodend bungalow in Victoria
New Zealand studio Bull O'Sullivan Architecture has perched a compact aluminium-clad chapel on a hillside overlooking the Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch. More about Bull O'Sullivan Architecture perches tiny chapel on New Zealand hillside
Exposed blockwork walls are contrasted by screens of lightweight steel and blackened timber at SKI House in Wānaka, New Zealand, created by local studio Roberts Gray Architects. More about Roberts Gray Architects marries blockwork and charred timber for New Zealand home
Looking to up your kerb appeal? Here are nine examples of distinctive front doors from homes around the world that are guaranteed to make a good first impression. More about Nine front doors that give homes a unique personality
Susan T Rodriguez has designed a revitalised recreational facility in Central Park, rebuilding a 1960s ice rink and pool and reconnecting the park's natural waterways in the centre of New York City. More about Central Park recreation facility designed as "ultimate fusion of landscape and architecture"
Local clay and rubble from buildings razed during Apartheid were fired into bricks and fittings for the Rahmah Library in Cape Town, South Africa, completed by local studio The MAAK. More about The MAAK incorporates Apartheid-era demolition rubble into Cape Town school library
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a wood-lined diabetes health centre in Copenhagen created by Danish studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. More about "A cathedral of wood" says commenter
London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill, combining hotel stays and residences under the same roof. More about Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building by AHMM and TiggColl
The Appleby Blue Almshouse social housing complex in London, designed by local studio Witherford Watson Mann Architects, has won this year's RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building. More about "Hopeful and imaginative" social housing wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2025
Danish architecture studio BIG and New York studio Rockwell Group have completed a student centre at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA made of a cluster of mass timber volumes that ascend up the building's sloped site. More about BIG completes mass-timber "village of 29 pavilions" at Johns Hopkins
An exposed concrete-framed extension frames views across a garden and sunken studio at this Victorian townhouse in Hampstead, converted into apartments by local architecture studio Pinzauer. More about Pinzauer transforms historic Hampstead home with concrete-framed pavilion
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans for an interfaith complex on a hillside near Tirana, Albania, which will have a cluster of pavilions that celebrate different religions. More about BIG to weave tree-like interfaith complex through Albanian hillside
People have long searched for ways to reduce the time it takes to construct buildings but instead we should be trying to slow architecture down, writes Phineas Harper. More about "Like fast food and fast fashion, fast architecture is inevitably less fulfilling"
Tariffs up to 25 per cent on kitchen cabinets, lumber and some upholstered furniture objects are now in effect in the US, following a proclamation released in late September by the Trump Administration. More about US furniture, cabinet and lumber tariffs go into effect
Local studio Field Atelier has completed a breezy home near Goa, India, which is wrapped by verandas sheltered by sliding timber screens and folding metal doors. More about Sliding screens of woven timber ventilate House in Corjeum by Field Atelier
British architectural photographer Marc Goodwin has documented the interiors of 14 architecture workspaces across Belgium. More about Fourteen Belgian architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin
Local architecture practice Studio Dera has transformed a disused swimming pool into The Pool, a multifunctional, light-filled teaching space for Waltham Forest College in London. More about Studio Dera converts disused swimming pool into flexible teaching space
Canadian studios Oyama and Julia Manaças Architecte have designed Waterhouse, a woodland house clad in wood shingles that blends into a natural clearing in Sutton, Quebec. More about Shingled Canadian house blends forms into fluid composition
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the 2026 Winter Olympics Athletes' Village in Milan. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features a "well-conceived, long-range plan for the investment"