In this week's comments update, readers are discussing North Carolina architecture studio Duda Paine's 405 Colorado office building in Austin and other top architecture and design stories. More about "Thor's Hammer flattens another 13-storey parking ramp" says commenter
The Royal Institute for British Architects has appointed Valerie Vaughan-Dick as its new chief executive from January 2023. More about RIBA names Valerie Vaughan-Dick as new chief executive
Architects working on the Neom mega-project in Saudi Arabia, including the 170-kilometre city The Line, must decide whether they are content to be complicit in an "ecological and moral atrocity", writes Adam Greenfield. More about "All those complicit in Neom's design and construction are already destroyers of worlds"
South Korean studio Unseenbird has designed a cafe in downtown Seoul, where vegetables are grown in a glass-fronted cultivation room before being harvested, prepared and served to customers on a conveyor belt. More about Sik Mul Sung is a Mars-themed cafe with its own vertical farm
Dezeen Showroom: a range of office pods designed for group and individual working and a modular system of noise-dampening lights are the latest acoustic products to be featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Ten noise-regulating acoustic products for communal interiors
Researchers at Hong Kong University's Robotic Fabrication Lab have developed a series of 3D-printed stools featuring complex shapes that provide comfortable seats while also sheltering marine animals. More about HKU's computer-designed Tidal Stools can be used by humans and sea creatures
Architecture uses many of the same creative principles as hip-hop music, the curator of an exhibition tracking the relationship between the musical genre and designing buildings, Sekou Cooke, says in this interview. More about "Hip hop has always had to be sustainable" says Atlanta hip-hop architecture exhibition curator
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the completion of Foster + Partners' 425 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now! More about Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Foster + Partners' 425 Park Avenue skyscraper
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Álvaro Siza has teamed up with Swiss brand Cauny to produce the Cauny X Siza watch collection. More about Álvaro Siza designs watch that "looks like a watch" for Cauny
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects and Diamond Schmitt Architects have carried out a renovation of New York City's David Geffen Hall, modernising the venue's main concert hall and improving the public spaces that surround it. More about New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall reopens after extensive renovation
Architecture studio Populous and local studio Hastings have completed Geodis Park in Nashville for Nashville SC, which the studios say is the largest stadium dedicated to soccer ever built in USA. More about Populous and Hastings unveil largest purpose-built soccer stadium in the US
A curved bronze facade sits atop a sandstone podium at this home renovation in Sydney, Australia, designed by local architecture studio Atelier Andy Carson. More about Atelier Andy Carson finishes coastal home in Sydney with stone and bronze
French architect Jean-Christophe Quinton has decorated a Parisian social housing project built on the site of a demolished police station with a curvy limestone facade. More about Scalloped facade fronts Parisian social housing block by Jean-Christophe Quinton
Tallinn-based materials company Myceen has released a series of pendant lampshades called B Wise made from mycelium, which were shown at Dutch Design Week. More about Myceen creates "soft and velvety" lampshades made from mushroom mycelium
Amsterdam studio Thonik took cues from the typography of graphic design legend Wim Crouwel to create a fresh identity for Dutch Design Week, marking two decades since the inception of northern Europe's largest design festival in Eindhoven. More about Thonik updates Dutch Design Week's graphic identity for 20th anniversary
Beijing Leuchte Lighting Design has orchestrated a lighting scheme for an open-air theatre complex in Emeishan City, China, centred on a pavilion encrusted with 50,000 illuminated tiles. More about Beijing Leuchte Lighting Design clads immersive theatre venue in luminous tiles
Dezeen's owner JP/Politiken Media Group has appointed Benedict Hobson and Wai Shin Li to lead the magazine as co-CEOs. More about Benedict Hobson and Wai Shin Li appointed as co-CEOs of Dezeen
Dezeen School Shows: we've rounded up five student projects presented on Dezeen School Shows that aim to upgrade and improve the design of healthcare apparatus. More about Five student design projects that innovate medical equipment
Facades at this factory in an industrial park near Ho Chi Minh City are filled with layers of greenery that provide shelter from the rain and sun, as well as helping to purify the air. More about Plant-covered facades wrap Vietnamese factory by G8A Architects and Rollimarchini Architects
New York City-based Maya Lin Studio and US studio Bialosky and Partners have designed a spiralling plant-covered performing arts centre for Bard College in New York that will sit next to Frank Gehry's Fisher Center. More about Maya Lin Studio designs spiral-shaped arts centre for Bard College