German architect and Obel Award-winner Anna Heringer has said she is "deeply sorry" for the legacy of architecture from wealthy countries in a talk at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen. More about Obel Award-winner Anna Heringer apologises to Global South on behalf of architects
Writer Lindsey Bro has collected 50 saunas, hot springs and baths that represent global bathing culture in the book Thermal. Here, she picks eight of the most intriguing. More about Thermal celebrates "vast experience and rich heritage" of bathing culture
Architects and designers in China are poised to have a greater global influence as the country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Dezeen Awards China judges at a talk at Design Shanghai. More about Chinese architects and designers can "bring something different to the world" say Dezeen Awards China judges
Local practice Fabled Studio has designed the interiors for Socca restaurant, in London's Mayfair, adding hand-painted murals informed by the French Riviera. More about Socca restaurant feels like "a pocket of Southern France in Mayfair"
Architecture firm Hassell has collaborated with the National Gallery of Victoria to create Design Wall 2023, a floor-to-ceiling installation partly made from reused materials from a previous exhibition. More about Hassell creates six metre-high Design Wall to showcase innovative products at NGV
A vaulted ceiling punctured with skylights features in a 1940s auto dealership that architectural studio Johnston Marklee has converted into a bright home for the Roberts Projects art gallery. More about Johnston Marklee converts historic Los Angeles car showroom into art gallery
US cities must push for more mid-rise buildings and better public spaces to become more equitable, 2023 AIA Gold Medal winner Carol Ross Barney tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Skyscrapers "just not that valuable" says Carol Ross Barney
Promotion: experience designer Annabelle Schneider has created Presence In Bed, an installation made from textiles and soft furnishings, which aims to blur the "digital and physical realms". More about Annabelle Schneider creates immersive VR installation with touch-reactive fabrics
Residential designer Dane Taylor Design has completed Butterfly House, an accessible coastal home in New South Wales that is informed by Japanese aesthetics. More about Wabi-sabi philosophy guides design of accessible coastal home in Australia
Japanese architect Toyo Ito has completed Gaia, a six-storey business school at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore that is built almost entirely from mass timber. More about Toyo Ito completes "largest wooden building in Asia"
Designer Keiji Ashizawa has devised the interiors of The Conran Shop Daikanyama in Tokyo, which is located inside a building by architect Fumihiko Maki and spotlights products from Japan and Asia. More about Keiji Ashizawa designs "home-like" The Conran Shop in Hillside Terrace
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a Christ & Gantenbein-designed concrete bridge in Aarau, Switzerland, which features five arches of varying widths. More about "Why can't we have nice things like this in the US?" says commenter
Curator Mhairi Maxwell has selected five key items from the V&A Dundee's Tartan exhibition, which aims to "take a radical new look" at the pattern. More about V&A Dundee exhibition "busts some important myths" about Tartan
London's latest BAO restaurant is modelled on the liveliness of Taiwan's dumpling shops, with designer Maths opening up its shopfront to "allow people to spill out". More about BAO Marylebone draws on "utilitarian design" of Taiwanese dumpling shops
A roughly-hewn stone trough and a traditional mill for pressing olive oil were repurposed by interior designer Pilar García-Nieto within this farmhouse-turned-hotel near Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana mountain range. More about The Lodge hotel takes over 500-year-old farmhouse in Mallorca
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a prototype electric version of Renault's Twingo model created by designer Sabine Marcelis. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Sabine Marcelis' "inside-out" car
Honolulu design studio The Vanguard Theory has created interiors for a hotel on Waikiki Beach that "embrace the brutalist architecture" of the building, while adding tropical touches to the decor. More about Hawaiian heritage informs Wayfinder Waikiki hotel by The Vanguard Theory
Dezeen Showroom: design studio Interesting Times Gang has collaborated with cooperative homebuilder OBOS to produce Veggro, a range of partitions made from mycelium and orange peel. More about Veggro collection by Interesting Times Gang and OBOS
Glossy white-concrete panels clad this holiday home with a pentagonal plan in Italy, which has been designed by Milan studio JM Architecture. More about Pinwheel house by JM Architecture resembles "a white pebble in the landscape"
British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by three former employees, with one making a criminal complaint against him. More about David Adjaye accused of sexual misconduct by three women