A timber home wedged into a London street and a Japanese coastal retreat held up by a single concrete column feature among May's five houses of the month. More about Dezeen's top five houses of May 2023
Dezeen has teamed up with Samsung to challenge readers to come up with creative ideas for reusing old electronic devices or waste materials. More about Samsung and Dezeen launch £18,000 Re:Create Design Challenge
Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann's firm Studio Other Spaces has designed five buildings and seven pavilions within the Meles Zenawi Memorial Park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. More about Studio Other Spaces designs "anti-monument" to Ethiopia's former prime minister
Developer Uribe Schwarzkopf has unveiled the design for the residential YOO GYE skyscraper in Guayaquil, Ecuador, which will be designed in collaboration with YOO Inspired by Starck. More about Philippe Starck unveils design for Ecuadorian skyscraper
Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. More about Sculptural roof helps Taihang Xinyu Art Museum blend into mountainside
Classical Chinese gardens informed the sweeping white-concrete geometries of Shanfeng Academy, a culture and sports centre in Suzhou by Chinese studio Open Architecture. More about Open Architecture draws on traditional gardens for concrete cultural centre in China
For our latest lookbook, we've gathered eight minimalist bedrooms with peaceful designs, ranging from a Mexican bedroom with a concrete bed to a cosy space in a former girls' school in Puglia. More about Eight calming bedrooms with minimalist interiors
Swiss architecture studio Madeleine Architectes has converted an old pigsty and clad it in lime and hemp to create the base of this house and office in Chavronay. More about Madeleine Architects converts pigsty into The Recipe house in Switzerland
The 2023 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale kicked off last week. Here, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft selects the most interesting national pavilions from the event. More about Eleven key pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created Matrix One, a laboratory and office building in Amsterdam designed to be dismantled into reusable parts. More about MVRDV designs demountable office building as "source to harvest materials from"
Local studio EBBA Architects has designed a store for eyewear brand Cubitts that preserves and draws on the original 1930s interior of the traditional F Cooke restaurant on London's Broadway Market. More about EBBA Architects transforms former jellied-eel restaurant into eyewear store
Luxury car manufacturer Bugatti has revealed the designs for its first foray into residential real estate – a 42-storey skyscraper in Dubai that will have two garage-to-penthouse car lifts. More about Bugatti unveils design for first residential skyscraper
Researchers have discovered that the mass of buildings in New York City is contributing to it subsiding by one to two millimetres a year, adding to the city's flood risk. More about New York City sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers
A renovated flat by studio Nic Howett Architect that "feels like an oasis" has been named London's best new home improvement project by Don't Move Improve! 2023. More about The Secret Garden Flat named London's best new home renovation
A team of students and researchers from Barcelona's Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has built a hillside timber pavilion with hanging walkways nestled in the trees. More about FLORA is a mass-timber research pavilion in Barcelona's forest canopy
The founders of Italian practice Studio Fuksas have spoken to the Italian press about their designs for The Line mega city in Saudi Arabia, which are on display during the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about The Line "does not touch the poetry of the desert" says Massimiliano Fuksas
Traditional Japanese joinery in cypress and cedar has been used to construct this stable near Kyoto, Japan, which was designed by architecture studio 2m26 to "connect humans, horses and nature". More about Umagoya stable in Kyoto features traditional Japanese carpentry
The Kosovo pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale features an upside-down neon house as a comment on migration and to encourage visitors to "reflect on their own association with home". More about Inverted neon house installed in Kosovo pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
The lack of architecture at the Venice Architecture Biennale means that it is at risk of losing its position as the world's leading architecture event, says Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher. More about Venice Architecture Biennale "does not show any architecture" says Patrik Schumacher
Large-scale models of The Line and other developments at the controversial Neom project in Saudi Arabia are being presented at the Zero Gravity Urbanism exhibition during the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Neom designs presented at exhibition during Venice Architecture Biennale