Emma Dent Coad, the Labour Party politician who claimed a surprise election victory in the UK's richest constituency, is a design writer and architecture historian known for campaigning against gentrification. More about First Labour MP in London's Kensington is a design writer who plans to fight gentrification
Dezeen's managing editor Olivia Mull has picked up a prestigious industry award for Dezeen Hot List, which was named Best Content Idea – Digital at the BSME Talent Awards 2017. More about "Game changer" Dezeen Hot List named best digital content idea at BSME awards
The founders of US firm Edmonds + Lee Architects designed this urban dwelling for themselves, including a bright white facade, a slanted roof and retractable glass walls. More about Edmonds + Lee creates white Switchback House for sloped street in San Francisco
Dezeen promotion: American home design retailer ABC Carpet & Home has photographed its latest collection of rugs in upstate New York's Howe Caverns. More about ABC Carpet & Home showcases new rug collection in an underground cave
Penguins slide and somersault down the sloping rooftops of a popular Aarhus housing complex in this animated movie, created by French film studio 11h45. More about "The Iceberg" housing in Aarhus becomes a playground for penguins in new animation
Deep triangular and flat-topped arches are punched through the white walls of this community centre, which architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus designed for the Portuguese town of Grândola. More about Irregular cutouts mark recessed entrances to Aires Mateus' community centre in Portugal
David Beckham's plan to create a new professional soccer team for Miami is a step closer to kick-off – the British footballer has now acquired a plot of land to build a stadium on. More about David Beckham scores land for Populous-designed football stadium in Miami
By pairing raw concrete with warm timber, French office Studio Razavi hoped to give a contemporary feel to this Alpine chalet home, while also complying with strict local architecture guidelines. More about Studio Razavi reinterprets traditional chalet architecture with Mountain House in the Alps
Aiming to change our attitudes towards our own excrement, Dutch design duo Makkink & Bey have created a toilet that collects poo and wee before turning it into compost. More about Studio Makkink & Bey's wheelie-bin toilet harvests human waste for electricity and compost
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a workshop assistant to join London-based design studio JamesPlumb, which recently used an antique textile to create a limited-edition bench. More ›
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This countryside house in Peru by Lima-based studio Cheng + Franco Arquitectos features three volumes clad in perforated Corten steel that cantilever above a grassy bridleway. More about Cheng + Franco cantilevers trio of Corten-clad volumes from rural Peruvian house
Italian studio Duearchitetti has renovated an apartment in an 18th-century building in Varese, which features a central doric column, a stone manger and a groin-vaulted ceiling. More about Groin-vaulted ceiling takes centre stage in revamped 18th-century property
The fibreglass-concrete facades of this technology centre in Moscow, designed by architecture practice WALL, are imprinted with a pattern based on the conductive tracks of circuit boards. More about Information technology pavilion in Moscow features circuit-board-patterned walls
The ripples and ridges of sand dunes and traditional textiles formed the basis for Note Design Studio's Weave tile collection.
More about Note Design creates bulging weave-effect tiles for Kaza Concrete
These foggy renderings by The Boundary forego the stereotypical blue-sky backdrop to depict a wedge-shaped tower by Richard Keep Architects and Henry Goss Architects, which has just been granted planning permission in Nairobi, Kenya. More about Richard Keep and Henry Goss unveil plans for Nairobi tower in rainy renderings
A tilted and fractured black box that emerges from a public square in the Chinese city of Harbin contains display areas dedicated to telling the story of war crimes committed during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. More about Sloping black volumes penetrate public square at Harbin's Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidences
These responsive leggings by tech brand Wearable X use gentle pulses to give instant feedback to the wearer on their yoga postures. More about Smart leggings by Wearable X vibrate to correct imperfect yoga poses
To mark the 150th birthday of iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright, we have created a new Pinterest board dedicated to his work and legacy, from the famous Fallingwater holiday home to a Lego model of his Guggenheim museum. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Architecture studio Dieter Vander Velpen has employed a luxurious material palette of dark walnut, black granite and limestone to overhaul the kitchen and bathroom of a house in Belgium. More about Dieter Vander Velpen brings "understated luxury" to 1970s Belgian house
RÄS has overhauled an apartment in Barcelona, uncovering a hidden gabled ceiling where it could fit a polycarbonate-walled mezzanine level. More about Rediscovered attic space makes room for mezzanine level in Barcelona apartment