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"
Architect Alexandre Pavlidis has completed Within the Earth, a house on the Greek island of Sifnos contained within a series of sunken stone walls that step down a coastal hillside. More about Rough drystone walls frame sunken home on Greek island by Alexandre Pavlidis
For this roundup, we've collected five smartphones and dumbphones with exciting designs, ranging from a phone with a robot arm to a keyboard phone built for messaging. More about Five innovative smartphones and dumbphones that put design first
US architecture studio KTGY has revamped the interiors of the HOK-designed Fairmont Hotel off of Chicago's Millennium Park. More about KTGY revamps interiors of Fairmont Hotel in Chicago
Brazil's Estúdio Campana has wrapped a pop-up Tiffany & Co store inside a São Paulo shopping mall in a woven wicker skin. More about Estúdio Campana creates "woven jewellery box" for Tiffany & Co in São Paulo
Local studio Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has completed the Arte Abierto Baja in Mexico, an open-air exhibition space wrapped by monolithic walls of exposed concrete and stone. More about "Light and sea breeze shape the viewing" of exhibits at open-air art gallery in Mexico
From outdoor courts that act as flood-water-draining bioswales to an indoor court under a concrete dome in Chile, here are seven basketball courts that integrate good design to expand their presence beyond the game. More about Seven basketball courts that score design points
This week on Dezeen, IKEA shared a first look at its Konstrunda collection, which elevates "everyday objects into art pieces" with contributions from seven designers, including Andu Masebo and Lisa Hilland. More about This week we unveiled an IKEA collection that makes collectible design affordable
US food company Kraft Heinz has created an adjustable cap for its ketchup bottles that allows users to snap it into different positions to control the rate of flow. More about Heinz adjustable ketchup lid allows for "perfect squeeze"
Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for a storehouse in Brent, UK, that keeps cultural artefacts is among the student projects from the London School of Architecture. More about Colourful cultural artefact storehouse among projects from London School of Architecture
Toronto architecture studio UUfie has expanded and renovated a 1970s chalet in Ontario to conform to its steep, wooded site with a net that serves as an internal barrier and a hammock. More about UUfie organises renovated Ontario chalet "like a hike"
A crisp white cube has been nested within the old brick shell of an existing building to create Casa Nido, a Spanish house designed by local studio Iterare Arquitectos. More about Iterare Arquitectos inserts stark white home into shell of old Spanish building
Photographer Ahmad Alnaji has captured the Ciel Dubai Marina, a supertall skyscraper by architecture studio NORR that was recently completed as the tallest hotel in the world. More about Photos reveal world's tallest hotel in Dubai