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
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a special airworthiness certificate to Armada Model Zero, a prototype electric car that can go from driving to flying by launching straight up into the air like a drone. More about Electric flying car receives approval for test flights in the US
Italian fashion house Fendi has collaborated with Japanese architect Kengo Kuma to design accessories that reference ancient Japanese craft techniques, which were presented at Fendi's latest menswear show. More about Kengo Kuma creates accessories for Fendi from washi paper and tree bark
The proliferation of AI poses major challenges for the natural world, according to tech-focused artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, whose latest work uses neural networks to replicate birdsong. More about AI "raises all sorts of questions" for animals and the environment says Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Forest sounds and furnishings made from storm-stricken trees bring elements of nature into this menswear boutique in London's King's Cross, designed by local practice Fred Rigby Studio. More about Fred Rigby Studio creates dried flower meadow inside Lestrange's Coal Drops Yard store
Architects Ma Yansong and Rossana Hu, interior designers André Fu and Alex Mok and furniture designer Frank Chou have been announced as the first five Dezeen Awards China judges. More about Ma Yansong, Rossana Hu and André Fu named judges for Dezeen Awards China 2023
You can still list your London Design Festival 2023 event on Dezeen's Events Guide's digital guide to the festival, which takes place in venues across the city from 16 to 24 September. More about There's still time to be listed on Dezeen's digital guide for London Design Festival 2023