The rapid rise in urban apiaries is exceeding the amount of greenery available to feed both honey bees and other pollinators, according to a study from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. More about Study finds cities lack green spaces to support "unsustainable" beekeeping boom
Toronto-based artist Krista Kim has created a digital fabric designed to look like water for Nymph, a clothing collection for digital fashion house The Fabricant. More about Krista Kim and The Fabricant design "fluid" digital fabric for Nymph clothing collection
Japanese studios Unemori Architects and Teco Architects have turned a commercial building in Kitakami, Japan, into a health and childcare support centre, adding undulating floors and ceilings. More about Unemori Architects and Teco Architects create "park-like" health and childcare centre
Architect Marc Thorpe has unveiled renderings of a set of houses in Uganda that will be constructed almost entirely from bio-bricks made from local soil and feature solar-panelled roofs. More about Marc Thorpe designs Kampala houses made from local soil bricks
Denmark's 3 Days of Design fair has changed its dates to 15 to 17 June so that "the dates of the festival don't coincide with any other festival," after it was set to take place at the same time as Salone del Mobile and Design Shanghai. More about 3 Days of Design festival postponed to avoid design fair clash
Scandinavian firm CF Møller Architects has completed a house where all the exterior surfaces match, thanks to a combination of dark red bricks and tiles. More about CF Møller uses matching bricks and tiles for exterior of Villa E in Aarhus
Tenants have moved into Italian architect Stefano Boeri's Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex, the first of his vertical forest towers to open in China. More about First vertical forest towers by Stefano Boeri open in China
An inquiry into the cause of the fire that destroyed the Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building in 2018 has failed to reach a conclusion due to insufficient evidence. More about Investigation into Glasgow School of Art fire fails to find "definitive cause"
Strips of colourful photovoltaic cells are arranged into a geometric pattern to form this artwork, conceived by Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel to bring solar panels from our roofs into our homes. More about Marjan van Aubel turns solar cells into art with glow-in-the-dark tapestry
Rather than spending £20 million to refurbish its headquarters, RIBA should make its spaces freely available for others to host engaging architectural programmes, says Phineas Harper. More about "RIBA upgrading Portland Place is an expensive solution to the wrong problem"
Bursts of blue and green appear inside this centuries-old canal house in Amsterdam that has been renovated by local architecture studio i29. More about i29 enlivens 17th-century canal house in Amsterdam with pops of colour
Interested in learning a new skill in 2022? Check out 10 short courses in architecture and design from Dezeen Courses in the USA, Portugal, Hong Kong and the UK as well as remote learning opportunities. More about Ten short courses on Dezeen Courses
Design studio Bompas & Parr has created a pop-up bar serving glow-in-the-dark sushi and cocktails in Abu Dhabi. More about Bompas & Parr creates Glow-in-the-Dark Sushi bar
The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh by local architecture studio Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA has been awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021. More about Rural hospital in Bangladesh named world's best building by RIBA
In this week's comments update, readers are baffled by Adidas and Parley for the Oceans' decision to float a recycled-plastic tennis court within the Great Barrier Reef and discussing other top stories. More about Commenter calls Adidas' floating tennis court a "ridiculous publicity stunt"
In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for architecture firm TP Bennett, the studio's principal director explains how its latest residential project was designed to meet Passivhaus energy standards. More about TP Bennett's Haus on the Ridge informed by vintage camera
A prototype carbon capture and storage facility by Shell, which was designed to eliminate emissions from hydrogen production, actually has the same yearly carbon footprint as 1.2 million cars, according to a report by Global Witness. More about Shell carbon-capture facility found to be generating more emissions than it prevents
Dezeen promotion: Italian tile brand Ceramiche Refin has launched Cortina, a porcelain stoneware tile collection designed to resemble traditional wooden planks from Italian alpine huts. More about Ceramiche Refin's Cortina tiles aim to "transfer the charm of mountain chalets to interior environments"
Chinese architecture studio More Design Office (MDO) has converted a cluster of traditional rammed-earth houses in China's Zhejiang Province into a series of contemporary guesthouses called Floating Cloud Township Villa. More about MDO converts rammed-earth houses in rural China into holiday villas
LA studio PlayLab Inc. has incorporated surreal fragments of a home in the set for Louis Vuitton's Autumn Winter 2022 menswear collection, which was the final collection from the fashion house's late creative director Virgil Abloh. More about Sunken home forms setting for Virgil Abloh's final Louis Vuitton show