The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the unveiling of Buckingham Palace's refurbished east wing. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Buckingham Palace's refurbished chinoiserie interiors
San Francisco design studio Whipsaw has created a robot with padded "hands" programmed using artificial intelligence to give massages. More about Whipsaw creates Aescape automated massage robot
Sustainability must be incorporated into architecture projects in a truly holistic way in order to support the green transition, writes Trimble SketchUp's Andrew Corney as part of Dezeen's Climate Salon partnership with the software company. More about "We can't pretend that aesthetics are not important when it comes to sustainability"
Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has adaptively reused a domed cement factory in Shanghai, China, to create a performing arts and sports venue. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen transforms cement factory into West Bund Dome Art Center
A stack of open-air terraces lined with copper-coloured glazed bricks pull light and air into the Darya Residential Apartment Building in Iran by architecture studio Hooba Design Group. More about Glazed copper-coloured bricks reflect light into Tehran apartment block by Hooba Design Group
Technology company Dyson has unveiled the OnTrac noise-cancelling headphones, which are the brand's first-ever audio-only headphones. More about Dyson aims to "disrupt" with launch of first headphones
Design studio IDEO has created a device for healthcare startup Teal Health that enables women to self-collect samples required for cervical cancer screening in the privacy and comfort of their own homes. More about Teal Wand offers accessible and comfortable at-home sampling for cervical cancer
Ahead of London Design Festival's 22nd anniversary, there's still time to feature in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to the festival. More about You can still be listed in Dezeen's guide to London Design Festival 2024
Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed Scenic City, its design for the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, which will feature facades designed to resemble waterfalls. More about Ole Scheeren reveals plans for Shenzhen skyscrapers with "waterfall" facades
Architects Amanda Levete and Doreen Heng Liu, interior designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, designer Mario Tsai and art journalist Cao Dan have been named as judges for Dezeen Awards China 2024. More about Mario Tsai and Doreen Heng Liu announced as Dezeen Awards China 2024 judges
If we don't change the fearful way in which we perceive climate change, "we will constantly reinforce this role of the future being fucked," said Disrupt Design founder Leyla Acaroglu at the Design and Climate: Rethinking Our Role conference. More about Unaddressed eco-anxiety "is just going to fester and become more problematic" says Leyla Acaroglu
Local architecture and landscape studios Jones Studio and Chris Winters Associates have converted an Italian Gothic revival-style church into an event venue in Downtown Phoenix. More about Jones Studio and Chris Winters Associates restore Phoenix abbey to be "garden in a ruin"
Dezeen School Shows: a project utilising hair as a biomaterial to promote sustainability is included Dezeen's latest school show presented by the Interior Educators Awards. More about Interior Educators presents ten award-winning interior design projects
Promotion: the six finalists for this year's DesignEuropa Awards have been revealed, including industrial designer Dieter Rams as the winner of its lifetime achievement award. More about Transparent turntable and cantilevered holiday home among DesignEuropa Awards 2024 finalists
Architecture studio MAD has created Ephemeral Bubble, an installation designed to resemble a bubble being blown by a century-old wooden house, for the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan. More about MAD adds giant bubble to century-old Japanese house
A radial wooden structure reminiscent of the body of a spider defines this foyer for a therapeutic healthcare centre, completed by architecture studio MIAS in the hills of Catalonia. More about MIAS references spider anatomy for foyer of Spanish healthcare centre
Architecture studio OODA has unveiled its design for two connected skyscrapers, named Bond Tower, that bend away and towards each other in Tirana, Albania. More about OODA designs kinked Tirana skyscrapers to evoke "the grace of ballet"
Architects for Gaza has displayed sections of an experimental clinic, which it plans to build in Gaza "as soon as there is a gap" in Israeli strikes, at the London Festival of Architecture. More about Architects for Gaza creates fragments of demountable clinic for Gaza
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a house in Japan with thick walls of exposed concrete, completed by Studio Cochi Architects. More about "Like a concrete shipping container" says commenter
Global design agency Ogilvy has developed a compact water filtration device that can attach to any plastic bottle, offering an accessible and affordable way to provide communities with clean drinking water. More about Filter Caps transform bottles into handheld water treatment system