Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week. In this exclusive interview, curator Lesley Lokko explains why she placed Africa at the heart of the festival for the first time. More about Africa a "powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century" says Venice curator Lesley Lokko
Moving calligraphic scrolls will continually plot the response of visitors to a series of questions about architecture's intangible qualities at the Singapore's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively here. More about Visitors' experiences of cities to be plotted on moving calligraphic scrolls at Singapore's Venice pavilion
Designer Mac Collins is among those exhibiting works at the British Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which celebrates how global diasporic communities design space. More about British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale encapsulates "the incredible diversity we experience in Britain everyday"
In this week's comments update, readers discussed Tilly Talbot, a designer powered by artificial intelligence, as well as other top architecture and design stories. More about "What happened to the concept of human beings collaborating on a design" asks commenter
Architects Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and Gregg Pasquarelli, climate pioneer Naveed Chaudhry, curator Samta Nadeem and photographer Taran Wilkhu have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2023 judges. More about Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and Gregg Pasquarelli named Dezeen Awards 2023 judges
A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world's unsustainable approach to sanitation. More about Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale "declares the death of the flushing toilet"
In this video produced for Holcim by Dezeen, Norman Foster introduces a housing prototype for displaced people that the Norman Foster Foundation developed with the building materials company and unveiled at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Norman Foster Foundation and Holcim reveal concrete emergency housing prototype
Dezeen has teamed up with Material Bank for a live panel talk next week in London exploring how its easy-access platform is changing the way that architects and designers specify materials. More about Attend a talk exploring how Material Bank can support the design industry
Mankind's relationship to single-use plastics is the focus of the US Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively online as part of a day of pavilion openings. More about US Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale urges visitors to question plastic dependency
A model that imagines a mermaid's view of the rising sea levels features in Coastal Imaginaries exhibition at the Danish Pavilion, which is the first in a series of exclusive Venice Architecture Biennale online pavilion openings. More about Rising sea levels envisioned through eyes of a mermaid at Denmark's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion
New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. More about Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Studio Snoop's unveiling of Tilly Talbot, the "world's first AI designer", at Milan design week. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features "world's first AI designer"
This week, New York's design week returns for another iteration. Here, we have rounded up key shows, talks and installations put on by organisations and brands including NASA, Muji and the Female Design Council. More about Twelve things to do and see during New York's 2023 design week
Dezeen Showroom: a modular light informed by ocean waves and a solar-powered mood lamp that mimics sunlight are among the latest lighting designs to be featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Ten illuminating lighting designs featured on Dezeen Showroom
Promotion: acoustic products brand Woven Image has launched Fuji, a range of ceiling tiles designed to improve sound quality in workspaces with raw concrete interiors. More about Woven Image offers acoustic solution for exposed concrete offices
French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a brick workshop in Louviers, France, for luxury brand Hermès that is the first industrial building to achieve France's highest environmental labelling. More about Lina Ghotmeh wraps Hermès leather workshop in "galloping arches"
Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has created Copper Blockhouse, a multi-functional cultural space located inside a copper arch in Shanghai, China. More about Wutopia Lab reveals "shimmering whale" Shanghai museum with arched copper shell
From a cantilevered rooftop pool in Marbella to a brutalist home with a swim-up lagoon, here are eight houses that don't relegate swimming pools to the garden. More about Eight houses that integrate swimming pools into their architecture
With just over two weeks left until entries close, Dezeen Awards judges including interior designer Eny Lee Parker, and architects Paola Navone and Piero Lissoni, explain why awards are a chance to promote your work. More about Dezeen Awards are an opportunity "to test the strength of our designs"
The Museum of Design and Applied Arts in Reykjavík's latest exhibition highlights Icelandic designs for the home. Curator Sigríður Sigujónsdóttir picks seven intriguing works from the show that opened during DesignMarch. More about At Home in The Design Museum showcases the "eclectic" work of Icelandic designers