In this week's comments update, readers are questioning the design of a vulva-shaped spaceship concept and discussing other top stories. More about Commenter wonders if vulva-shaped spaceship colliding with rocket would "lead to big bang"
Dezeen's latest survey shows that the number of women in architecture leadership roles has doubled, but the industry needs to work harder to attract and retain women in senior positions, says Christine Murray. More about "Architecture has run out of excuses when it comes to explaining a lack of gender parity"
Filmmaker and architect Liam Young and sustainable design expert Katie Treggiden will lead the judges for the Dezeen Awards 2022 sustainability and media categories. More about Liam Young and Katie Treggiden are head judges for Dezeen Awards 2022 sustainability and media categories
Legislation is needed to force architects to prevent the mass slaughter of birds that "didn't evolve to deal with glass", experts have told Dezeen. More about Glass facades are "the main culprit" for billions of annual bird deaths
British architecture practice Foster + Partners has revealed its masterplan design for a new 117.4-hectare city in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, that will include residential neighbourhoods, education, medical and leisure facilities. More about Foster + Partners unveils its first city masterplan in Vietnam
American musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and design technology company Kano have launched Stem Player, a pebble-shaped device that allows users to customise songs in the palm of their hand. More about Ye and Kano release MP3 player designed to "challenge what an album can be"
SITELAB Urban Studio has completed the first phases of a mixed-use development called 5M in San Francisco's SoMa neighbourhood with Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) as lead architect. More about SITELAB integrates commercial and public space at 5M in San Francisco
The latest edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an exclusive interview with Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, who told Dezeen why she only works in her home country. More about An interview with Marina Tabassum features in today's Dezeen Agenda newsletter
US studio Deborah Berke Partners has overhauled a pair of Victorian-era townhouses at the University of Pennsylvania and added a terracotta-clad extension that is meant to be contextually sensitive. More about Deborah Berke Partners renovates and expands historic buildings at University of Pennsylvania
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has transformed a building that was once home to video game giant Nintendo into a boutique hotel. More about Nintendo's former HQ to reopen as hotel designed by Tadao Ando
London-based Studio Seilern Architects has enclosed the Gouna Festival Plaza in the Red Sea resort of El Gouna, Egypt, with a trio of colonnades. More about Studio Seilern Architects surrounds moated plaza with 20-metre-high colonnades
The percentage of women in top jobs at the biggest architecture firms has doubled over the past five years – but men still occupy four out of five key roles, according to research conducted by Dezeen to mark International Women's Day. More about Women make up just one in five top positions at biggest architecture firms despite "huge jump"
Swedish architecture studio ASKA has drawn on the existing 1930s architecture for its refurbishment of Stockholm beauty salon MBS by Malika, adding arched shapes and oak veneer panelling. More about Nordic functionalism informs Stockholm beauty clinic by ASKA
Charlotte Böhning and Mary Lempres of Doppelgänger have developed a bioplastic version of polystyrene foam that is made from the exoskeleton of mealworms and breaks down in soil in a couple of weeks. More about Doppelgänger creates polystyrene substitute from plastic-eating mealworms
An exhibition highlighting London-based designer Bethany Williams' waste-combating, social-driven vision for the fashion industry has opened at the Design Museum. More about Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems opens at the Design Museum
To coincide with International Women's Day architecture collective Part W has launched a campaign to populate a map titled Women's Work: London. More about Part W creating map "to draw attention to built projects by women" in London
Promotion: five creative studios have produced immersive designs for the Valencia 360 exhibition during World Design Capital Valencia 2022 that show both dystopian and utopian projections of the city's future. More about Designers and architects create visions of future Valencia for World Design Capital 2022
Mexican studio RED Arquitectos has created a screen-wrapped house made almost entirely out of wood from coconut palm trees, which was designed to blend into its surroundings on a small island off the Yucatán Peninsula. More about RED Arquitectos builds Casa Numa from coconut-palm wood
Architecture firm Gensler has released plans for the new Flight Test Museum in Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles. More about Gensler releases plans for winged Flight Test Museum in California
At a time of soaring energy bills and impending climate catastrophe, installing solar panels makes more sense than ever. But the market is rigged in favour of fossil fuels, writes Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. More about "The solar revolution is underway, but one rooftop at a time"