Dezeen will host a unique social evening in a virtual rooftop bar on 7 April to discuss the rise of the metaverse with Space Popular, Andrés Reisinger, Amber Jae Slooten and Charlotte Taylor. More about Dezeen announces plans for first Dezeen Club event at a virtual rooftop bar
Architecture studios Hawkins\Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen have won planning approval for a blocky library building at the University of Bristol. More about Hawkins\Brown and Schmidt Hammer Lassen design university library as "new landmark for Bristol"
San Antonio architecture firm Clayton Korte has nestled a wine cellar into the rolling hills of Texas, tucked away in a limestone cave so it disappears into the surrounding landscape. More about Clayton Korte embeds hidden wine cave into Texas hillside
Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed a student housing block in a suburb of Chandigarh, featuring brightly coloured surfaces and columns that reference the architecture of pioneering modernist Le Corbusier. More about Charged Voids completes Chandigarh student housing informed by Le Corbusier
New York studio GRT Architects has transformed a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn townhouse into a home and studios for an artist couple, featuring a mix of functioning studios and eclectic interiors. More about GRT Architects divides Brooklyn townhouse into live-work space for artist couple
American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has designed a virtual garage in the desert that she imagines housing basketball player LeBron James' electric Hummer. More about Kelly Wearstler imagines virtual garage for LeBron James' electric Hummer
Dezeen promotion: Enscape has released the latest version of its virtual reality and real-time rendering plugin, Enscape 3.0, for the quick creation of high-quality architectural visualisations in "a few mouse clicks". More about Enscape redesigns architectural visualisation plugin for "intuitive usability"
Vicky Richardson, the former director of architecture, design and fashion at the British Council, has been named head of architecture and Heinz curator at London's Royal Academy of Arts. More about Vicky Richardson appointed head of architecture at Royal Academy
Chinese architecture Studio PIG Design has created a showroom for the Memphis Milano furniture brand in Hangzhou, China, with interiors designed to make customers "feel the atmosphere of Memphis". More about PIG Design creates Memphis-informed Ya Space! furniture showroom in Hangzhou
Toronto-based artist Krista Kim has sold the first NFT-backed digital home for over half a million dollars, as interest in virtual design continues to grow. More about Artist Krista Kim sells "first NFT digital house in the world" for over 0,000
Kengo Kuma and Associates has collaborated with Mad Arkitekter on the design of a library that will curve around existing trees in a small urban park in Skien, Norway. More about Kengo Kuma designs curved library dedicated to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen
Hertfordshire studio Michael Collins Architects has added a boxy, two-storey copper and charred larch extension to a terraced house alongside a railway station in south London. More about Michael Collins Architects adds Jewellery Box extension to London home
Work by self-taught artists will be displayed within a Douglas fir-wrapped museum in eastern Wisconsin designed by US firm Tres Birds Workshop to evoke the natural landscape. More about Tres Birds wraps Wisconsin's Art Preserve in slanted strips of fir wood
Large openings frame views of the swimming pool and surrounding landscape from the living spaces and terraces of this holiday home on the island of Mallorca, designed by local studio Isla Architects. More about Holes and windows create "abstract composition" on facades of Mallorcan holiday home
Jean-Philippe Vassal, along with his Lacaton & Vassal co-founder Anne Lacaton, won the Pritzker Architecture Prize earlier this week. In this lecture, he explains the ideology behind the studio's work. More about Watch Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Jean-Philippe Vassal's Royal Academy lecture
Israeli studio Paritzki & Liani Architects has left an opening in the facade of its latest project, Eucalyptus House, to create space for an old tree. More about Eucalyptus tree slots into facade of Tel Aviv house by Paritzki & Liani Architects
Vietnamese studio CTA has unveiled a house clad with scallop tiles, which were preserved by the owners when their old home was pulled down. More about 2HIEN house in Vietnam built using tiles salvaged from the owners' previous home
This week on Dezeen, we celebrated refurbishment experts Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal being named the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. More about This week Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal won the Pritzker Architecture Prize
American firm Walker Warner Architects has perched a basalt and cedar-clad holiday home in Hawaii on a mountainside of lava rock with an infinity pool that looks towards the sea. More about Hawaii house by Walker Warner Architects hugged by volcanic rock
In this previously unpublished interview, Lacaton & Vassal co-founder Jean-Philippe Vassal explained why the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio believes that buildings should be renovated instead of demolished. More about "Generosity is absolutely essential in any act of architecture" says Jean-Philippe Vassal