This year's 3 Days of Design festival felt bigger than ever, so the Dezeen team has narrowed down a selection of our 10 favourite launches from the event, including a foamless armchair and a table with a hidden chess set. More about Our favourite products from 3 Days of Design 2025
Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has unveiled updated plans to restore and convert Antwerp's Boerentoren skyscraper into a cultural venue, which will be crowned with a glass observation deck. More about Studio Libeskind to add glass crown to art deco Antwerp skyscraper
Mallorca-based Sara Regal showcased seats made from building waste at fashion designer Cecilie Bahnsen's showroom for the two-day Residue: Soft Remains installation during 3 Days of Design. More about Sara Regal forms construction waste material into "layering cake" furniture
British studio Foster + Partners has been selected to design the Queen Elizabeth II memorial in London, which will include a new crossing over St James's Park Lake. More about Foster + Partners selected to design Queen Elizabeth II memorial
Spanish firm Clap Studio used patterned Alpi wood, stainless steel and coloured lighting to make this techno club in Spain look and feel like the inside of an oven. More about Clap Studio turns up the heat with oven-informed techno club
Los Angeles studio OWIU Design has renovated the ranch of influencer Remi Ishizuka near Austin, Texas, where the studio's minimalist Asian aesthetic merges with the farmhouse-style property. More about OWIU Design imbues Texas ranch house with Japanese minimalism
It's the most basic of furniture pieces, but in this roundup, we look at eight designs that explore the surprisingly broad potential of the humble stool. More about Eight stools that challenge conventional furniture design
Charred timber shrouds the exposed concrete interiors of these two conjoined homes in Germany, designed by local studio Buero Wagner. More about Charred timber and exposed concrete defines conjoined houses in Germany by Buero Wagner
New York design studio Standard Issue has collaborated with American furniture company MillerKnoll to showcase over 300 pieces of furniture at an archive located at the brand's Michigan headquarters. More about MillerKnoll balances "the iconic and the unexpected" at archive in Michigan
Pleated timber, old floorboards and translucent resin were among the materials used to make seven of the most interesting seating projects by emerging creatives on show at 3 Days of Design. More about Seven seats by emerging designers at 3 Days of Design
Luxembourgish architect and theorist Léon Krier, who was a key driver of New Urbanism and well-known critic of modernism, has passed away aged 79. More about Poundbury planner Léon Krier dies aged 79
Berlin-based artist Martin Binder has installed the Balance Bench in Einbeck, Germany, which acts like a seesaw. More about Martin Binder designs seesaw bench to encourage "more playfulness and less polarisation"
Architecture studio MAD has created a canopy that reinterprets traditional Chinese oil-paper umbrellas at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More about MAD installs draping Chinese Paper Umbrella at Venice Architecture Biennale
Canadian designer Thom Fougere has created a series of commemorative tables for the G7 political summit in Alberta, Canada, using a stone unique to the region and commonly used on its civic buildings. More about Thom Fougere designs veiny stone tables for G7 summit at remote Canadian lodge
Frida Escobedo is the first woman to design a wing at The Met. In this interview, the Mexican architect explains how she's bringing exclusive views of Central Park "back to the public". More about "I don't believe in specialisation" says Frida Escobedo
UK studio Will Gamble Architects has refurbished The Island, an old holiday home in Cornwall that sits on a rock stack and is accessed via its own suspension bridge. More about Will Gamble Architects renovates holiday home perched on Cornish rock stack
University of East London staff and students have created a school building in India from Sugarcrete, a biomaterial construction block made from sugarcane waste. More about Low-carbon blocks made from sugarcane waste used to form classroom in India
Architecture studio Whittaker Parsons has added an elongated extension to a 1970s terrace in southeast London to create a light-filled courtyard house. More about Whittaker Parsons creates courtyard house in south London
London's Design Museum has named designer Lulu Harrison the winner of the fourth annual Ralph Saltzman Prize for her "glass artefact" project made from waste shells, wood and bracken from the River Thames. More about Lulu Harrison wins Ralph Saltzman Prize for Thames Glass made from river waste
With the arrival of summer, our latest lookbook explores vacation homes in Denmark, Sweden and Norway that go above and beyond the traditional cabin. More about Eight Scandinavian summer houses with extraordinary interiors