As the yearly festival NYCxDesign 2025 begins in New York, we have rounded up 12 restaurants, bars and cafes around New York City where festival-goers can rest, recharge and admire design during the busy week. More about Twelve design-oriented cafes and restaurants to visit during NYCxDesign
Dezeen School Shows: a community centre that mirrors the fluid forms found in Chinese calligraphy is among the projects by students at the University of Dundee. More about Arts centre informed by Chinese calligraphy among projects by University of Dundee students
Brooklyn company Airco has teamed up with design studio Mythology to create a New York concept shop featuring a freeze-dried sandwich, space gear and a motorbike to showcase different aspects of carbon conversion technology. More about Airco creates pop-up store with futuristic pumping station to promote carbon conversion
London practice Studio Hagen Hall has completed the refurbishment of Pine Heath, a 1960s townhouse in Hampstead, restoring and complementing its mid-century design with a rich palette of cherry wood and stainless steel. More about Studio Hagen Hall blends "craftsmanship and tactility" for mid-century renovation in London
Dutch design studio Blade-Made has converted a section of a decommissioned wind turbine into a micro home featuring a simple, wood-lined interior and renewable solar-powered electricity. More about Blade-Made transforms former wind turbine into tiny house
The proliferation of touchscreens in cars is "dangerous" and designers will shift back to analogue switches, British architect Norman Foster tells Dezeen in this interview. More about "The touchscreen has been mindlessly applied to the automobile" says Norman Foster
The Bahrain Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which won the Golden Lion award for best pavilion, aimed to address rising global temperatures by suspending a cooling ceiling over seating. More about Bahrain's Golden Lion-winning pavilion features ceiling designed to cool construction workers
The first render of Lina Ghotmeh's design for the permanent Qatar pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale in Venice, Italy, has been revealed at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about First image of Lina Ghotmeh's permanent Qatar pavilion for Venice biennale revealed
After disasters like the Los Angeles wildfires one of the best ways for architects to help is by designing prototypes, write Dana Cuff, Emmanuel Proussaloglou and Ryan Conroy. More about "In post-disaster cities like Los Angeles, we need new model homes and we need them now"
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has won the Shaping Water Competition with Harmonic Tides, an installation informed by the movement of water, which will be built at Clerkenwell Design Week later this month. More about Arthur Mamou-Mani wins Shaping Water Competition with wave-like 3D-printed installation
Visitors to the Venice Architecture Biennale can drink coffee made from the city's canal water in a Golden Lion-winning intervention by US practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro serves up canal water coffee at Venice Architecture Biennale
A series of models, installations and photographs addressing the decarbonisation of architecture fill the Spain Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Spanish pavilion demonstrates "another way of building" at Venice Architecture Biennale
A spiralling structure of cross-laminated timber and glass surrounds a circular events space at the Czech Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka, which was designed by European studio Apropos Architects. More about Spiralling ramp of timber and glass wraps Czech pavilion at Osaka Expo
Materials from Asia informed the co-founders of California studio OWIU Design while renovating a house for themselves in Los Angeles originally designed by architect and SCI-Arc co-founder Ray Kappe. More about OWIU remodels Ray Kappe's Glass Ridge House in LA
An oversized, corrugated metal roof punctured by a large circular skylight crowns this home in rural New Zealand, by architecture studio Keshaw McArthur. More about Agricultural sheds inform "unfussy and honest" home in New Zealand
Every now and then, a house gets published on Dezeen that makes you think, "wait, does someone really live there?!" From the startlingly industrial-looking to the downright surreal, here's a roundup of 10 of the most double-take-inducing. More about Ten houses that it's hard to believe are actually houses
Japanese design studio We+ has developed a collection of furniture clad in colourful tiles made by combining powdered microalgae with natural resin. More about Multicoloured furniture by We+ shows "expressive potential" of microalgae pigments
Toronto studio Reflect Architecture has worked with music producer Noah Shebib to overhaul his penthouse apartment in the city, adding a granite plinth around its perimeter and a custom Sabine Marcelis table. More about Reflect Architecture renovates Toronto penthouse for a music producer
Dezeen School Shows: a wearable device designed to regulate a person's breathing when anxious is among the industrial design projects by students at University of Illinois Chicago. More about Anxiety-reducing top among forward-thinking projects from University of Illinois Chicago students
US studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Bahrain have been awarded Golden Lions at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale for the best project on show and pavilion respectively. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Bahrain win Golden Lions at the Venice Architecture Biennale