Philip Johnson's postmodern AT&T Building has been awarded landmark status, halting Snøhetta's controversial renovation plans for the Midtown Manhattan skyscraper. More about Snøhetta plans nixed as Philip Johnson's AT&T Building gains landmark status
A huge balloon controlled by brain waves will fly around the atrium of the Design Museum during this year's London Design Festival. More about Loop.pH to install "mind-powered airship" in Design Museum atrium
The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win a stay at a hotel in a converted Tuscan palazzo in Florence, Italy. More about Competition: win a two-night stay at The Student Hotel in Florence
American studio Dynia Architects has completed a mixed-use building in Colorado capital city Denver, featuring a bright red wall to catch the eye of passing train travellers. More about Zeppelin Station market and offices by Dynia Architects overlooks rail tracks in Denver
This captioned movie shows a shape-shifting wheel created by DARPA and Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Centre. More about Reconfigurable wheel changes from tyre to track in two seconds
The walls of a soon-to-be-demolished office building in Kent, England, appear to have been zipped open in this installation by artist Alex Chinneck. More about Alex Chinneck unzips the walls of a condemned office building
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen has sunk a scale model of one of Le Corbusier's most famous buildings in a Danish fjord, as a statement about the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's election. More about Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye sunk in Danish fjord
Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed Building 25 of the Sinan Mansions in Shanghai into a bookstore that takes inspiration from the human body and mind. More about Wutopia Lab lays out Shanghai Sanctum bookstore to be map of the human psyche
A courtyard sits at the centre of this converted canal house apartment in the centre of Amsterdam by local firm Standard Studio. More about Standard Studio use skylights to funnel light into Amsterdam loft
Designers Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and Oliver Sundquist have created a series of knobbly concrete vases that looks like lava rocks, for the new home of prolific Copenhagen restaurant Noma. More about Rock-like Mater vases feature inside Copenhagen restaurant Noma
Italian studio Westway Architects has completed the modernisation of a winery near Venice, which combines wine-coloured zinc-titanium cladding with windows to view the production process. More about Row of ridged bays contains bottling facilities at Santa Margherita vineyard
Over 70 architects, critics and preservationists have signed a petition to prevent the "tremendous mistake" of demolishing parts of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, to make way for an expansion by Selldorf Architects. More about Architects petition to save Venturi Scott Brown's San Diego art museum
Russian artist Alexander Shtanuk has launched a crowdfunding campaign to turn NASA's metallic emergency blankets into an enormous artwork at this year's Burning Man festival. More about Massive NASA space blanket proposed as billowing Burning Man installation
Digital-only bank Starling has launched a debit card with a vertical design to align with the way people usually make payments. More about Starling bank launches vertically orientated debit card
Two long volumes clad in local cypress and kinked at their centres form this house in rural Chile, by Ignacio Correa Arquitecto. More about Ignacio Correa crafts wooden Casa Camilo for family of farmers in Chile
New video footage reveals the latest incredible skyscraper being constructed in China, which incorporates a giant waterfall into its facade. More about Chinese skyscraper incorporates 108-metre high waterfall
In this week's comments update, readers aren't sure how to respond to furniture formed from a naked body. More about "If I buy eight, am I also responsible for feeding them?"
London-based practice Studio Mutt has revealed illustrations of four architectural characters that will inhabit the Sir John Soane's Museum as part of this year's London Design Festival. More about Studio Mutt designs four fictional characters to inhabit Sir John Soane's Museum
American firm The Ranch Mine has overhauled and expanded a Phoenix residence, adding limestone cladding and generous terraces, and reorganising the home so it capitalises on views of the desert terrain. More about Red Rocks house by The Ranch Mine nestles into Arizona mountainside
This raised wooden structure, designed by Cerejeira Fontes Architects, creates a secluded inner chapel inside an old church in Braga, Portugal. More about Wooden "forest" forms an inner sanctuary inside Imaculada Chapel in Braga