Dezeen School Shows: a gravity-powered mountain trike designed to extend mountain tourism beyond the ski season is among the projects from the University of Ljubljana. More about Gravity-powered mountain trike among projects from the University of Ljubljana
Architecture studio Pearce+ has added a wildlife tower for bats, owls, kestrels, invertebrates and wetland species at Honeygar Farm in Somerset, UK. More about Pearce+ stacks reclaimed materials to create multi-species wildlife tower
Designers from IKEA and Xbox were paired up to create the products in this furniture collection, including a stool that looks and tilts like a giant thumbstick. More about Xbox teams up with IKEA for debut gaming furniture collection
Developer Riksbyggen and creative agency BBDO Nordics have designed three flats based on what a 25-year-old can afford to buy in Sweden today, with the smallest micro home measuring just 1.9 square metres. More about Riksbyggen creates Sweden's smallest apartments to "make the housing crisis tangible"
Architecture studio Colar has updated and extended a dilapidated adobe structure to create a single-storey home in Chiapas, Mexico. More about Colar revives adobe structure to create pared-back home in Mexico
Promotion: US technology company Dell has incorporated Nvidia GPUs and AI-assisted visualisation technologies into its workstation portfolio to support its latest real-time design studio. More about Latest Dell workstations close gap between "design concept and client-ready presentation"
Miami voters have approved Denver-based real estate company Oak View Group's bid to take over management of the city's historic Miami Marine Stadium and restore the structure. More about Miami votes to restore Hilario Candela's Marine Stadium
Dezeen School Shows: a light made from organic waste from traditional Chinese medicine is among the projects by students at Politecnico di Milano. More about Lighting made from Chinese medicine waste among projects from Politecnico di Milano
Architecture studio KFA plans to convert a 1970s brutalist office in Los Angeles into housing after its recent designation as a historic landmark, taking advantage of a recently adopted adaptive reuse ordinance. More about KFA set to transform 1970s brutalist LA office into apartments
Local architecture practice Studio Massimo has completed a bio-based office in the Netherlands, using bark cladding and an expansive green roof to disguise its form within the surrounding woodland. More about Grass-topped Dutch office by Studio Massimo "adds habitat rather than taking it"
Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt that cannot be detected using AI video systems. More about Simon Weckert creates Digital Camouflage shirt to avoid AI video surveillance
The world's most prominent architecture studios are embracing AI for everything from coming up with designs to project analyses and reports, Dezeen research has found. More about Big-name studios encouraging architects to use AI
The Dezeen team was on the ground at Houghton Festival. Here are five standout installations from the festival, including a timber-and-thatch pavilion and a laser installation featuring a vintage campervan. More about Five standout art installations from Houghton Festival 2026
Undulating hills and winding rivers are translated into the letters of Vermont's updated tourism logo, designed by creative agency DNCO as part of a wider rebrand for the US state. More about DNCO brings "handmade quality" to Vermont's revamped logo
Local design-build studio Allprace aimed to create a feeling of "warmth and permanence" in a house called Hargis, which features gabled roof forms and earthy materials such as wood and stone. More about Peaked volumes top Los Angeles house by Allprace
A skyscraper-sized jail designed by architecture studio HOK is undergoing site preparation in New York City's Chinatown as one of the four new borough-based structures designed to replace the city's notorious Rikers Island jail complex. More about Construction begins on world's tallest jail in Manhattan
Indian studio Evolving Radical Aesthetics has completed Ushas, a farmhouse built into a steep Kerala hillside with an open-air temple carved into a retaining wall. More about Open-air temple sits beneath granite farmhouse on Kerala hillside
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a wellness hotel on Awaji Island, Japan. More about Shigeru Ban unveils coastal wellness retreat on Awaji Island
Design studios Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays have designed a timber-framed installation for this year's Houghton Festival in Norfolk, England, covering its walls with thatch sourced from sustainable reedbeds. More about Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays cloak tower with thatched walls at Houghton Festival
British studio Richard Parr Associates has renovated a trio of 19th-century buildings at The Newt in Somerset hotel in England, restoring their interiors to nod to the site's past. More about Yarlington Lodge at The Newt in Somerset blends "little snippets of history with life today"