Four teams including architects Amanda Levete, Carlo Ratti and Junya Ishigami are vying to improve facilities at the Eiffel Tower, in time for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More about Amanda Levete and Junya Ishigami among shortlist for Eiffel Tower overhaul
Co-working company WeWork has announced Danish architect and BIG founder Bjarke Ingels will join the company in the role of chief architect. More about Bjarke Ingels joins WeWork as chief architect
The company hired by Facebook to combat fake news has rented eight floors of office space inside the Jean Nouvel-designed Torre Glòries skyscraper in Barcelona, Spain. More about Facebook's service company to move into Jean Nouvel's Barcelona skyscraper
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has paired blackened steel with warm-toned wood at a new headquarters for hat maker Optimo, created inside a historic firehouse in Chicago. More about SOM converts century-old Chicago firehouse into Optimo hat factory
An architecture centre, co-working space and apartments are housed within a development of stacked glazed blocks by OMA, which creates a "knot" around a busy intersection in Copenhagen. More about OMA stacks green glass boxes to create BLOX architecture centre on Copenhagen waterfront
UK architecture office Eckford Chong has renovated and extended an end-of-terrace property in east London, adding a garden studio that evokes traditional Japanese tea houses. More about Eckford Chong adds blackened-timber garden studio to refurbished London house
Canadian firm 5468796 has created an angular residence with light interiors concealed within a dark-coloured exterior. More about Parallelogram House in Winnipeg is named after its unusual shape
Rapper Kanye West has revealed plans to extend his fashion label Yeezy with an architecture division "to make the world better". More about Kanye West to launch architecture arm of Yeezy fashion label
A glazed box containing a study cantilevers from the contemporary rural Jackson Residence by architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, which overlooks a river valley in the American West. More about Glass study extends from hilltop home in Wyoming by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Waind Gohil and Potter Architects has created a sculptural staircase, which was fabricated off-site and assembled like a puzzle, as the centrepiece of a house in London. More about Hundreds of timber components form statement staircase for London house
London developer Cube Haus has commissioned Adjaye Associates, Faye Toogood, Skene Catling de la Peña, and Carl Turner Architects to design affordable modular houses for awkward urban sites. More about Adjaye and Toogood design affordable prefabricated houses for property startup
An environmental research centre in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, designed by Taller de Arquitectura de Alto Rendimiento, produces all of the resources it needs onsite. More about Mexican research facility El Humedal designed by TAAR to be completely self-sustaining
Our new Pinterest board showcases the versatility of polycarbonate plastic in architecture, with projects including a translucent house in Slovakia and a Brooklyn clothing store designed for "Instagram moments". Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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South Korean studio CoRe Architects has transformed a former military bunker in Seoul into the Peace and the Culture Bunker, a creative hub for the local community. More about CoRe Architects converts Korean tank bunker into community arts centre
US studio Cutler Anderson Architects has wrapped this house in Connecticut around a large pond so its residents can watch birds, fish and insects at play. More about Connecticut Residence by Cutler Anderson straddles a woodland pond
Graduate Lilach Borenstein has proposed creating a multi-storey tower with varied topographies as a monument to tranquility and antidote to hectic urban living. More about Multi-storey park concept aims to give inhabitants a break from urban stress
A secluded garden courtyard surrounded by brick buildings forms The Ada and Tamar De Shalit House, a shelter for victims of domestic violence near Tel-Aviv. More about Amos Goldreich and Jacobs Yaniv Architects complete refuge for victims of domestic abuse
Dezeen is celebrating the Mexican and American holiday Cinco de Mayo today by highlighting some of the top hotels in Mexico, just in time for the summer vacation season. They include Pablo Escobar's converted residence in Tulum and an all-white resort in Baja. More about Seven of the best boutique hotels in Mexico
Chilean firm Felipe Assadi Arquitectos has created a long concrete house for a sloping site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, with extended portions forming covered balconies and a perpendicular swimming pool. More about Felipe Assadi's linear H House stretches along the Chilean coast
The golden cupola of Snøhetta's planetarium will be orbited by seven "interstellar cabins" as part of Norway's largest astronomical facility. More about Snøhetta to design Norwegian planetarium surrounded by a constellation of cabins