Construction has started on a skyscraper in Tirana designed by Dutch firm MVRDV, set to feature a facade with a pixelated map of Albania at its centre. More about MVRDV designs Albania's tallest building with pixelated facade
Women's action group Part W is crowdsourcing suggestions of worthy women to create an all-female alternative to the predominately male RIBA Royal Gold Medal winners list. More about Part W invites architects to create alternative all-female Royal Gold Medal winners list
Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled a slatted timber tower for Los Angeles, featuring a splayed bottom that draws on Marilyn Monroe's "flying skirt" moment. More about Sky Trees tower proposed for Los Angeles takes cues from redwoods and Marilyn Monroe
Amazon has cancelled plans to bring its HQ2 headquarters to New York's Long Island City, following a major backlash from local politicians. More about Amazon scraps plans for New York City HQ2
A housing block by architecture studio Farrells, currently under construction in west London, is aiming to be the first housing in the city to accept delivery of packages by drone. More about Lyons Place by Farrells set to be London's first housing to accept drone deliveries
Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been selected to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion, which will take the form of a huge slate roof rising up out of the landscape. More about Junya Ishigami to create "a hill made out of rocks" as Serpentine Pavilion 2019
The SpaceX port that Elon Musk is building in Boca Chica, Texas, for launching commercial rockets to Mars, is at risk of being cut in two by Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall. More about Trump's border wall could sever Elon Musk's SpaceX Texas launchpad
The five Mies van der Rohe Award 2019 finalists have been announced, with a public space created inside an abandoned psychiatric centre and a revamped 1960s housing block making the list. More about Mies van der Rohe Award 2019 finalists revealed
Critics, architects and Dezeen columnists including Oliver Wainwright, Ruth Reed, Owen Hatherley and Vicky Richardson are sharing photos of their guilty pleasures on Twitter. More about Architects and critics reveal their architectural guilty pleasures
American pop star Katy Perry has removed two designs from her Katy Perry Collections shoe line after complaints that they resembled blackface. More about Katy Perry removes shoes from sale following blackface accusations
Residents of the Neo Bankside housing have had their claim that Tate Modern's Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension invades their privacy dismissed by the high court. More about Neo Bankside residents lose battle to stop Tate Modern visitors looking into their flats
David Chipperfield Architects has completed the London branch of art gallery Bastian, finishing its all-white interiors with grey stone detailing. More about David Chipperfield Architects completes London outpost of Bastian gallery
Iranian-born British architect Farshid Moussavi has been selected ahead of Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang and David Chipperfield to design an Ismaili cultural centre in Houston, Texas. More about Farshid Moussavi to design first Ismaili Center in the USA
The rapid growth of the vegan food movement is starting to drive demand for vegan furniture, fashion and homeware. Designers working to make cruelty-free products mainstream say an industry-wide shift is being led by consumers. More about Vegan design products will become as popular as vegan food, say designers
UK minister for housing Kit Malthouse has defended the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, calling on architects to work with him to resist bland, developer-led housing. More about Architects should "meet us half way" on Building Better Building Beautiful Commission says UK housing minister
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to transform a former industrial site in Chicago into a "new urban destination". More about SOM unveils plans for Chicago's Lincoln Yards neighbourhood
Mars One, the Dutch company that held an open call for volunteer astronauts to settle on Mars, has gone into liquidation. More about Mars One space colonisation company declares bankruptcy
London's brutalist-era Welbeck Street car park is to be torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, despite campaigns to save its unique facade. More about Brutalist Welbeck Street car park will definitely be demolished
This week, Dezeen interviewed architect David Adjaye at the opening of his Making Memory exhibition, where he said that architects need to work to counter false narratives. More about This week, David Adjaye spoke to Dezeen at the opening of his new exhibition
Fashion house Gucci has discontinued a jumper accused of resembling blackface and apologised for any offence caused. More about Gucci "deeply apologises" for balaclava jumper resembling blackface