A corrugated metal roof supported by turquoise-coloured steelwork declares the renovation of this public pool house in the Czech Republic, completed by local studio Mjölk Architekti and architect Marie Vondráková. More about Mjölk Architekti and Marie Vondráková rebuild fire-ravaged Forest Pool in Liberec
From a privacy-conscious home in Japan to a vaulted greenhouse in Chile, this roundup spotlights buildings from around the world that are brightened by luminous glass bricks and blocks. More about Eight buildings bejewelled with glass bricks and blocks
French designer Philippe Starck has renovated a 1920s building on Madrid's Gran Via into a hotel that conjures the spirit of Grand Cafés and the Generation of '27. More about Philippe Starck fills Brach Madrid hotel with "an infinite number of surprising and mysterious objects"
Calfornia-based Studio Ahead has turned a former San Francisco music cafe into the Side A restaurant and vinyl bar, which includes a custom aluminium DJ stand. More about San Francisco bistro by Studio Ahead includes aluminium DJ booth
Irish practice Fuinneamh Workshop Architects has completed an events space for the Tramore Valley Park in Cork, creating a "deliberately rudimentary" shelter of rammed earth, timber and thatch. More about Fuinneamh Workshop Architects adds rammed-earth shelter to Irish park
Our latest lookbook explores homes where kitchen cabinets divide up the floor plan, neatly organising the living spaces into different zones. More about Eight homes with kitchens that double as partition walls
This week on Dezeen, president Donald Trump revealed plans to add a neoclassical ballroom to the White House in Washington DC. More about This week president Trump unveiled White House expansion plans
Architecture studios Frida Escobedo Studio and Handel Architects have created a brick tower in Harlem, USA, that contains apartments atop a multi-level arts centre. More about Frida Escobedo Studio and Handel Architects complete brick tower in Harlem
Architecture studio Specht Novak Architects has wrapped a Frank Lloyd Wright-informed house in blackened-wood siding in Pennsylvania, USA. More about Specht Novak Architects reimagines Usonian design for lakefront house
Indian architecture studio Iki Builds has completed Soil and Soul Studio, a home in Hyderabad crafted with a palette of natural, local materials and construction rubble. More about Iki Builds critiques "disposable nature of modern construction" with rural Indian home
Architecture studio Reed Watts is set to create the Museum of Brutalist Architecture as part of a wider renovation of the Grade II-listed Acland Burghley School in north London. More about Brutalist London school to host UK's first brutalist architecture museum
Architecture institutions must respond with action following the UK's Supreme Court gender ruling, Lenny Rajmont, founder of LGBTQ+ architecture group Queerscapes, argues in this interview. More about Architecture profession "must engage" in ensuring safety for trans people says Queerscapes founder
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the conversion of a Florentine barn into a compact home by Italian studio Fōntego Architettura. More about "Green is such a relief in a world of beige!" says commenter
American start-up InventWood claims to have "reinvented wood from the inside out" with a patented process that restructures the material's molecules to make it ten times stronger than regular wood. More about Superwood is a chemically modified wood that is stronger than steel
London-based exhibitions Feel the Sound, Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style and Flowers – Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this August. More about Five architecture and design events in August from Dezeen Events Guide
Stained glass windows and custom wooden shutters filter light inside Six Coffee Wine, a cafe and wine bar recently completed by local practice NAAW Studio in Almaty, Kazakhstan. More about Kazakhstan cafe plays with shifting light from morning to night
US president Donald Trump has commissioned architecture firm McCrery Architects to add a neoclassical ballroom to the White House on the site of the East Wing. More about President Donald Trump to add neoclassical ballroom to White House
Dezeen School Shows: a woven pavilion that explores the relationship between light and movement is among the student projects from Universidad Anáhuac Puebla. More about Pavilion informed by Mexican weaving among projects from Universidad Anáhuac Puebla
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features RIBA's 2025 shortlist for the UK's best affordable housing. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features RIBA's 2025 affordable housing shortlist
Architecture studios Herzog & de Meuron and EHDD are set to convert the 1960s former Birkenstock campus in California, USA, into a design museum for the Eames Institute. More about Herzog & de Meuron and EHDD to create Eames design museum in 1960s warehouse