Producer Pharrell Williams and fashion designer Nigo are collaborating with Japanese hospitality brand Not A Hotel to design a commercial district in central Tokyo. More about Pharrell and Nigo design "surprising and entertaining" district in Tokyo
Deconstructivist architect Helmut Swiczinsky, a founding partner Viennese studio Coop Himmelb(l)au, has passed away at the age of 81. More about Coop Himmelb(l)au co-founder Helmut Swiczinsky dies aged 81
San Francisco studio Aidlin Darling Design has wrapped concrete and cedar panels around the L|J Residence in Atherton, California, which was designed to support multigenerational living. More about Aidlin Darling Design sculpts concrete bas relief into California house
There's still the chance to be listed in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to London Design Festival 2025, which highlights the key events taking place during the week. More about You can still feature in Dezeen's guide to London Design Festival 2025
Northumbria University graduate Hope Underwood has created a water harvesting system that can be retrofitted to domestic drainpipes to divert rainwater and use it for flushing toilets. More about Student develops retrofit rainwater harvesting kit to reduce household water bills
Architectural models of various scales are displayed throughout the Midtown Manhattan studio of global firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, which was recently renovated by its in-house team. More about KPF refreshes and opens up interiors of its New York City offices
Dezeen School Shows: an urban park with creative spaces informed by Huddersfield's natural environment is among the landscape projects from students at the University of Sheffield. More about Post-industrial landscape reimagined into park among projects from the University of Sheffield
A corrugated metal roof supported by turquoise-coloured steelwork declares the renovation of this public pool house in the Czech Republic, completed by local studio Mjölk Architekti and architect Marie Vondráková. More about Mjölk Architekti and Marie Vondráková rebuild fire-ravaged Forest Pool in Liberec
From a privacy-conscious home in Japan to a vaulted greenhouse in Chile, this roundup spotlights buildings from around the world that are brightened by luminous glass bricks and blocks. More about Eight buildings bejewelled with glass bricks and blocks
French designer Philippe Starck has renovated a 1920s building on Madrid's Gran Via into a hotel that conjures the spirit of Grand Cafés and the Generation of '27. More about Philippe Starck fills Brach Madrid hotel with "an infinite number of surprising and mysterious objects"
Calfornia-based Studio Ahead has turned a former San Francisco music cafe into the Side A restaurant and vinyl bar, which includes a custom aluminium DJ stand. More about San Francisco bistro by Studio Ahead includes aluminium DJ booth
Irish practice Fuinneamh Workshop Architects has completed an events space for the Tramore Valley Park in Cork, creating a "deliberately rudimentary" shelter of rammed earth, timber and thatch. More about Fuinneamh Workshop Architects adds rammed-earth shelter to Irish park
Our latest lookbook explores homes where kitchen cabinets divide up the floor plan, neatly organising the living spaces into different zones. More about Eight homes with kitchens that double as partition walls
This week on Dezeen, president Donald Trump revealed plans to add a neoclassical ballroom to the White House in Washington DC. More about This week president Trump unveiled White House expansion plans
Architecture studios Frida Escobedo Studio and Handel Architects have created a brick tower in Harlem, USA, that contains apartments atop a multi-level arts centre. More about Frida Escobedo Studio and Handel Architects complete brick tower in Harlem
Architecture studio Specht Novak Architects has wrapped a Frank Lloyd Wright-informed house in blackened-wood siding in Pennsylvania, USA. More about Specht Novak Architects reimagines Usonian design for lakefront house
Indian architecture studio Iki Builds has completed Soil and Soul Studio, a home in Hyderabad crafted with a palette of natural, local materials and construction rubble. More about Iki Builds critiques "disposable nature of modern construction" with rural Indian home
Architecture studio Reed Watts is set to create the Museum of Brutalist Architecture as part of a wider renovation of the Grade II-listed Acland Burghley School in north London. More about Brutalist London school to host UK's first brutalist architecture museum
Architecture institutions must respond with action following the UK's Supreme Court gender ruling, Lenny Rajmont, founder of LGBTQ+ architecture group Queerscapes, argues in this interview. More about Architecture profession "must engage" in ensuring safety for trans people says Queerscapes founder
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the conversion of a Florentine barn into a compact home by Italian studio Fōntego Architettura. More about "Green is such a relief in a world of beige!" says commenter