Beirut designer Davina Atallah has adapted the familiar typology of stacking blocks to create a wooden toy that allows children to explore complex ideas around body image. More about Body Blocks stacking toy helps children explore the many shapes a human can take
Promotion: creative platform Budapest Select returns to Milan design week with Patterns of Being, an exhibition that unpacks contemporary creative responses to global technological, social and ecological questions. More about Patterns of Being exhibition celebrates Hungarian creativity at Milan design week
Brick, wood and reddish steel come together to form a multi-level public market, which was designed by local studios Ramírez Suarez Arquitectos and Laboratorio Regional de Arquitectura for a dense, urban site in Mexico. More about Local context drives design of Tepoztlán Market in central Mexico
Dezeen Showroom: a chunky wall lamp made from thick, ribbed-edged glass is among nine new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Firth wall light by Tala among nine new products on Dezeen Showroom
Russian architecture studio Meganom has released renderings showing an infinity pool on its near-completed skyscraper in Manhattan's NoMad neighbourhood. More about Meganom shows infinity pool topping its skinny New York skyscraper
With an injunction halting the construction of the White House ballroom and the Trump administration appealing, it is unclear how long the East Wing grounds will remain a massive construction site. More about How long will the White House have a "hole in the ground"?
Clerestory windows and a curved ceiling create shifting patterns of light and shadow through this timber-lined home near Tokyo, designed by local studio HYG Architects. More about HYG Architects designs Japanese home as "spatial continuum" of its surroundings
Danish studio BIG has completed its first buildings in Japan, creating a trio of rammed-earth villas on the remote island of Sagishima for hotelier Not A Hotel. More about BIG uses rammed earth to create trio of luxury villas in Japan
A trio from Seattle have created Tin Can, a landline telephone that allows children to make calls without giving them access to the harmful distractions of a smartphone. More about Tin Can is an old-school phone with modern safety measures for children
Architect Massimiliano Fuksas and interior designer Tekla Evelina Severin, alongside designers Zandra Rhodes and Tawanda Chiweshe, have joined the judging panel for Dezeen Awards 2026. More about Massimiliano Fuksas and Zandra Rhodes revealed as Dezeen Awards 2026 judges
Located in the historic House of Tan Yeok Nee, Japanese restaurant Loca Niru in Singapore has a pared-back, simple interior that contrasts its ornate exterior. More about Keiji Ashizawa envisions Loca Niru restaurant as "a dialogue across time"
DesignSingapore Council will launch the Singapore Design Biennale in 2027, which will succeed the long-running Singapore Design Week event. More about Singapore Design Week to relaunch as Singapore Design Biennale in 2027
Promotion: from 4 to 10 May, Munich Creative Business Week is set to host its 15th annual festival around the city of Munich, which will feature exhibits, events and an all-day Design Summit. More about Munich Creative Business Week spotlights the "joy of creating"
A group of 12 architecture studios, including SHoP Architects, Weiss/Manfredi and Ennead Architects, has been selected by the US Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations to work on diplomatic buildings for the next five years. More about Twelve "regionally diverse" architecture studios selected for US embassy design
Angular black-concrete volumes are punctured by small tree-filled patios at this home in Mexico, completed by architecture studio Taller Alberto Calleja. More about Black concrete defines "strong and monolithic" Casa Mavra in Mexico
Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen has developed a collection of oversized aluminium candlesticks that tower over humans, which will be on show at Milan design week. More about Muller Van Severen creates human-sized candelabras for Milan design week
Canadian studio Ste Marie has crafted interiors for amenity spaces within a renovated 1960s tower in Chicago, which echo the "glamour and confidence of the mid-century office". More about Ste Marie "reimagines Chicago's corporate landscape" at The Bell
Textured brickwork, arch motifs and large mansard roofs nod to the Arts and Crafts style surroundings of Farmstead Road, an affordable housing development in London by local studio Metropolitan Workshop. More about Arts and Crafts details enliven London housing by Metropolitan Workshop
Receiving a tattoo is likened to a spiritual and religious experience in this lookbook of tattoo parlours run by renowned artists across the world. More about Six tattoo parlours that celebrate the "ceremonial practice" of tattooing
The director of interior design firm Care Of Studio has renovated a Victorian terrace in Sydney to form her own family home, choosing to keep much of its original structural fabric. More about Care of Studio preserves character in overhaul of 19th-century home in Sydney