Furniture made from lobster traps and informed by metal music feature in the independent furniture design studios in Montreal, Canada, presented as part of our North American Design 2024 series. More about Nine Montreal independent design studios to follow in 2024
A rammed-earth townhouse, a renovated modernist kit home and a concrete house in Switzerland feature in Dezeen's houses of the month for May. More about Dezeen's top five houses of May 2024
The inaugural edition of RAD Design, held in Bucharest, Romania, marks the first contemporary collectible design fair in Eastern Europe. More about Six collectible design highlights from RAD Design in Bucharest
British designer John Pawson has created a made to order wooden furniture collection for Danish manufacturer and long-term collaborator Dinesen. More about John Pawson unveils pared-back furniture that is "all about the timber"
Mykonos club Scorpios is opening a second location in Bodrum, Turkey, where a team of architects and designers has created a series of stone bungalows and a wellness "temple" featuring a dramatic coffered ceiling. More about Scorpios Bodrum overlooks the Aegean Sea from every angle
Local designer Micah Rosenblatt has debuted a collection of steel furniture covered in light green automotive paint that was informed by the architectural styles found throughout New York City. More about Micah Rosenblatt creates steel furniture based on the cityscape of New York
American studio SOM has unveiled images of a skyscraper in Guadalajara, Mexico, which will be clad in red-toned concrete with interiors designed by Mexico City-based Héctor Esrawe. More about SOM breaks ground on skyscraper with "handmade surfaces" in Guadalajara
The "anonymous" metal buildings found in rural Taiwan were a visual reference for Double Roof House, which local practice Studio Tngtetshiu has created in Tainan. More about Agricultural sheds inform metal home in Taiwan by Studio Tngtetshiu
The We Design Beirut festival showcased the Lebanese capital's often-overlooked design scene. Here, Dezeen rounds up eight highlights from its inaugural edition. More about Eight highlights from the first-ever We Design Beirut event
Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian enjoys the fact that people find it hard to pin down exactly what she does and believes others should embrace her "non-linear" approach, she tells Dezeen in this interview. More about "My mum only recently started to understand what I do" says Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Architecture studio Hassell has completed the Michael Kirby Law Building at Macquarie University in Sydney, organising its teaching spaces around a skylit, timber-framed atrium. More about Hassell completes "democratic and non-hierarchical" building for Sydney law school
French architecture studio Dream has completed an office building in Paris, which is clad with terracotta tiles to "evoke the history" of the industrial site in the Saint-Ouen district. More about Dream completes mass-timber office building for Athletes' Village in Paris
Architects Kerstin Thompson and Ben Edwards, designer Jonas Pettersson, sustainable developer Jonathan Smales and design entrepreneurs Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat have joined as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges. More about Ben Edwards, Kerstin Thompson and Jonas Pettersson are Dezeen Awards 2024 judges
Dezeen Showroom: a bench made from wood that mimics the shape of Japanese Torii gates is among nine new products recently listed on Dezeen Showroom. More about Torii bench by Ultramar Studio among nine new products on Dezeen Showroom
An old bookshop in Berlin is now home to the studio of architecture and interior design practice Gisbert Pöppler, which incorporates the building's grand arched doorways and other original features. More about Gisbert Pöppler creates own office and showroom inside former Berlin bookshop
Local studio PGM Arquitectura has completed a series of garden suites on top of the podium of the St Regis hotel skyscraper in Mexico City, originally designed by Argentine-American architect César Pelli. More about PGM Arquitectura adds garden suites to César Pelli skyscraper in Mexico City
Dezeen School Shows: an educational centre with an emphasis on upcycling within product and furniture design is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at London South Bank University. More about Ten architecture projects by students at London South Bank University
French studio F+G Architectes has created a stable outside Lyon that is formed of wooden structures designed as a modern take on the area's typical agricultural buildings. More about F+G Architectes creates "deliberately restrained" timber stable near Lyon
For our latest lookbook, we've collected eight living rooms that incorporate retro 1970s-style fittings and decorative accessories to create decadent textured interiors with rich, vivid colours. More about Eight decadent living rooms with 1970s-style furnishings
Modular furniture, app-operated doors and a self-serve bar are among the experimental ideas being trialled at MM:NT, a mini-hotel in Berlin that will constantly evolve in response to feedback from guests. More about ACME and BWM design adaptable interiors for MM:NT apartment hotel