Public toilets are vital infrastructure and architects and designers should do more to increase their prevalence in our cities, write Edit Collective. More about "As architects and designers, we don't talk about toilets enough"
A couple in London have been awarded £500,000 compensation over light being blocked from their apartment by a PLP Architecture-designed office tower – but a court refused their request for the offending building to be partially demolished. More about Judge spares London office tower from demolition in right-to-light legal battle
Promotion: pavers by American brick manufacturer The Belden Brick Company define the urban landscape of historic downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA, recently revamped by Iowa-based studio Snyder & Associates. More about Belden clay pavers add character to Cedar Falls' revamped downtown district
A Scottish prison, a fashion university building and the renovation of Elizabeth Tower have been named among the winners of the Royal Institute of British Architects' National Awards for 2025. More about RIBA announces best British buildings for 2025
Architecture studio LOHA has completed Isla Intersections, a low-cost housing complex for formerly homeless residents that comprises stacked shipping containers and sits on a triangular site near a busy highway interchange. More about LOHA creates affordable housing on challenging site in Los Angeles
Six volumes clad in sandstone define this ring-shaped visitor centre dedicated to Maiji Mountain in Tianshui, designed by Chinese studios ZXD Architects and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. More about Sandstone cloaks ring-shaped Maiji Mountain Visitor Centre in China
Architecture studios BKK Architects and Cottee Parker have released proposals for a supertall skyscraper on the Gold Coast, which, if built, will be Australia's tallest building. More about BKK Architects and Cottee Parker design Australia's tallest skyscraper
Architecture studio OMA has completed the Jomoo headquarters in Xiamen, China, featuring a facade composed of white ceramic stripes with a mountain-like base. More about OMA wraps Jomoo headquarters in white ceramic stripes
Local studio Colleen Healey Architecture has teamed up with Lynley Oglvie Landscape Design to renovate an early 20th century house alongside a private meadow in Washington DC. More about Colleen Healey Architecture inserts glass kitchen under historic porches of Washington DC home
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Shanghai Grand Opera House by Snøhetta. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "the most beautiful public stair design I have seen"
California governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that exempts infill housing from environmental review under the state's California Environmental Quality Act in the hopes of expediting development. More about California exempts infill housing from environmental review in state's "most consequential" housing reform
Indian office Iksoi Studio has remodelled a former factory in the western state of Gujarat into its new HQ, drawing on "memories, familiar forms and emotional attachments of the past". More about Iksoi Studio turns Indian factory into own architecture studio
Local studio Ogawa Fisher Architects has completed a wedge-shaped California house with skylights, board-formed concrete walls, and a submerged workshop with a functioning car lift. More about Ogawa Fisher Architects outfits California house with underground workshop
Architecture studio Order Matter has completed Raw House, a pared-back apartment block designed to shield itself from the bustling streets of Seoul in South Korea. More about Order Matter shields South Korean housing with "resolute and calm" facade
Architecture studio Snøhetta has collaborated with local studio B2Ai on a trio of buildings in Roeselare, Belgium, adding housing, offices and shops adjacent to the city's train station. More about Snøhetta adds trio of buildings to Roeselare railway site to "reconnect the city"
Dutch studio V8 Architects has created a pair of semi-detached homes in the Netherlands using recycled and reused materials above all else to demonstrate how circular design principles can be applied to housing. More about V8 Architects builds Rotterdam homes almost entirely from reused and recycled materials
An arts centre designed by Balkrishna Doshi in Ahmedabad, India, has been extended by Studio Sangath, the architecture studio co-led by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner's granddaughter. More about Balkrishna Doshi's granddaughter adds black box theatre to his Kanoria Centre for Arts
Artificial intelligence supercharges Ukraine's reconstruction effort in a project called Circularity on the Edge, which analyses drone footage of bombed-out buildings to identify reusable materials. More about Circularity on the Edge AI finds reusable materials in rubble of Ukrainian buildings
Australian studio Karen Abernethy Interiors and Architecture has restored and extended a 1950s modernist home in Melbourne, Australia, nestling two small pavilions into a lushly planted site. More about Karen Abernethy adds metal-clad pavilions to modernist Melbourne home
From expansive outdoor spaces to discrete rooftop nooks, our latest roundup spotlights homes from Mexico to Vietnam crowned with rooftop terraces for enjoying the summer sun. More about Eight homes with rooftop terraces that offer a sunny retreat