A storm felled-timber chair and a giant mushroom lamp are among our highlights from this year's Collect fair for contemporary craft and collectible design, opening today at Somerset House in London. More about Six home objects pushing natural materials to their limit from Collect 2025
New York-based designer Nik Bentel has unveiled the RC Car Handbag, a leather accessory that functions as a fully operational remote-control car. More about Nik Bentel creates remote-control handbag informed by toy cars
A lunar lander designed by space exploration company Intuitive Machines began a mission to the moon, carrying objects such as a BIG-designed data centre and a protective material by sportswear company Columbia for testing. More about BIG-designed hard drive launches to the moon on SpaceX rocket
Dezeen has teamed up with technology brand ASUS for the second year running to curate a major exhibition at Milan design week, which will feature an interactive installation by Studio INI. More about Dezeen and ASUS to bring new Design You Can Feel exhibition to Milan design week
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for the Centre of Mediterranean Culture, which is currently under construction on its coastal site in Reggio Calabria, Italy. More about Zaha Hadid Architects designs starfish-like cultural centre in Italy
Local studio Lionel Ballmer Architectes has created a timber annexe for The Wandering House, a traditional barn in rural Switzerland, which "floats" above an exposed concrete base. More about Lionel Ballmer Architectes raises rural Swiss annexe on concrete plinth
Following the news that the construction of the Jeddah Tower has restarted in Saudi Arabia, we outline the key facts about the megatall skyscraper that is set to be the tallest building in the world. More about Everything you need to know about the world's next tallest building
From rooftop play areas to interactive indoor landscapes, playgrounds are no longer confined to the outdoors. We've rounded up a selection of colourful play spaces that transform traditional ideas of play. More about Ten colourful playgrounds that spark children's imaginations
Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher has waded into architecture's culture wars by claiming that "woke virtue signalling" has destroyed the intellectual rigour of the profession. More about Architecture being killed by "woke take-over" says Patrik Schumacher
Architecture studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has unveiled its design for a timber-framed Maggie's Centre surrounded by woodland for Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. More about Niall McLaughlin designs timber structure "pinwheeled around lightwell" for Maggie's Cambridge
Italian design studio Pininfarina's Yachthouse has become the tallest building in Brazil, located in the skyscraper capital of Balneário Camboriú whose recent flurry of skyscraper construction was recently examined in a Dezeen feature. More about Brazil's tallest skyscraper features design informed by "nautical heritage"
American designer Ben Pennell worked with Virginia Tech students to create an experimental house with an exoskeletal structure on a sloped site in Christiansburg, Virginia, USA. More about Ben Pennell supports DIY house in Virginia with "exoskeleton" structure
Local studio Dominic McKenzie Architects has extended a Victorian home in south London, uniting old and new with arched motifs that appear as decorative brickwork, openings and even a small cat door. More about Dominic McKenzie Architects enlivens Segmental House with arched details
Norwegian robotics firm 1X has developed a humanoid robot for home chores that is wrapped in beige knitwear to "complement living spaces rather than disrupt them". More about Scandi robot servant Neo Gamma is dressed head-to-toe in beige knitwear
A football field, housing and retail spaces are united beneath a single swooping roof at Tammela Stadium in Tampere, designed by Finnish studio JKMM Architects as "a miniature city". More about JKMM Architects combines football stadium with housing in Finland
A "single unifying canopy" links the four volumes of Jinji Lake Pavilion, designed by Danish studio BIG as a nod to its tree-planted site in Suzhou, China. More about BIG completes glass-tiled pavilion overlooking lake in Suzhou
US company Alef Aeronautics has released videos of its Alef Model Zero electric flying car driving on a road in California before vertically taking off into flight. More about Videos reveal vertical takeoff of electric flying car in California
Paris-based studio Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has been selected to renovate the British Museum's Western Range galleries in London. More about Lina Ghotmeh appointed to complete British Museum gallery redesign
Spanish architect Miguel Arraiz has released designs informed by Japanese craft and volcanic stone for a monumental temple to be installed at this year's Burning Man event in Nevada. More about Miguel Arraiz designs "natural and futuristic" temple for Burning Man 2025
Brazilian studio Metro Arquitetos Associados has extended the Museu de Arte de São Paulo by modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi with an aluminium-clad tower. More about Metro Arquitetos Associados adds black tower to Lina Bo Bardi's MASP