Fashion house Dior's latest catwalk at Paris Fashion Week saw a large-scale, kaleidoscopic installation by artist Joana Vasconcelos suspended above the Autumn Winter 2023 runway, which was decorated with fabrics from the collection. More about Dior catwalk features 24-metre-long "tentacular" installation by Joana Vasconcelos
The way we build must fundamentally shift to harmonise with tree and carbon cycles in order to realise the Timber Revolution, writes Smith Mordak. More about "We can't detox our built environment by swapping out fossil-fuelled building materials for timber"
Improvements to both architectural education and practice must form part of the recovery plan to prevent history from repeating itself, argue Turkish architects following last month's deadly earthquakes. More about "We should hold the mirror to ourselves" say Turkish architects in wake of earthquakes
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains how his stacked-cube learning centre in Switzerland is one of the most significant projects of his career in this instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. More about The Square is a space for students to "open their minds" says Sou Fujimoto
Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has joined Dezeen Awards 2023 as a judge. Here he selects five projects that best reflect his studio's work. More about Five key projects by Dutch designer and Dezeen Awards judge Piet Hein Eek
Toy brand Lego has added five diverse characters including a girl with the skin condition vitiligo, one with limb difference and another with anxiety to its collection of Lego Friends figures. More about Lego releases toy figures that "celebrate diverse friendships in the modern world"
Bulbous steel tanks hang from where carcasses used to be suspended at the ÅBEN brewery in Copenhagen, which local studio Pihlmann Architects transformed from a slaughterhouse into a restaurant and bar. More about Pihlmann Architects creates sleek brewery in former Copenhagen slaughterhouse
International architecture studio SOM has completed a terminal for Kansas City International Airport that features a large wood-clad canopy. More about SOM tops Kansas City airport with giant timber-clad canopy
Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects has created a cedar-clad, pavilion-like house on the North Fork of Long Island that includes a detached garage and pool. More about Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects includes monumental porch on Long Island home
Dezeen School Shows: a masterplan designed to provide a safe space for marginalised groups in Boston and a proposal for improving a former mining village in South Yorkshire are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at University of Sheffield. More about University of Sheffield spotlights ten student architecture projects
Czech studio Atak Architekti has added a metal-clad extension to a former rectory building to create a library and multifunctional community spaces for the city of Liberec in the Czech Republic. More about Atak Architekti creates Liberec library by restoring and extending a former rectory
Architect Ma Yansong, the curator of Blueprint Beijing, a feature exhibition exploring the future of the Chinese capital at the 2022 Beijing Biennial, shares six of his highlight installations from the show. More about Ma Yansong picks six highlights from his Blueprint Beijing exhibition
Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta has completed a climbing centre in a small riverside town in Norway, using angular wooden walls to help mimic the feeling of being in a natural cave. More about Snøhetta creates cavernous timber climbing centre in Norway
Fashion brands including Diesel, Gucci, Blumarine and Ferragamo staged their Autumn Winter 2023 collections at Milan Fashion Week on catwalks piled with 200,000 condoms and on a medieval battlefield. More about Seven key catwalks from Milan Fashion Week
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the announcement that Kenzo Tange's modernist gymnasium is set to be demolished. More about "We cannot save all we build" says commenter
To help kick off our Timber Revolution series, we republish the Dezeen guide to engineered wood, which includes CLT, glulam and dowel-laminated timber. More about The Dezeen guide to mass timber in architecture
Dezeen's latest series investigates the potential of mass timber. Starting today, Timber Revolution will question whether the material can break steel and concrete's hold over the construction industry. More about The dawn of the Timber Revolution
Architecture firm MEE Studio has designed the interiors and bespoke wooden furniture for a cafe and boutique in the Nikolaj Kunsthal art gallery within an old church. More about MEE Studio creates wood-and-copper interior for cafe in former church in Copenhagen
South Korean spatial design studio WGNB has completed a flagship shop for golf brand PXG in Seoul, featuring an achromatic material palette and a graphite-covered wall that leaves smudges on visitors' clothing. More about WGNB completes colourless interior for golf supply store PXG
Spanish designer Álvaro Catalán de Ocón has created a Madrid Design Festival installation showing the results of a decade of working with artisans around the world to transform plastic bottles into woven lamps. More about Álvaro Catalán de Ocón celebrates 10 years of turning bottles into PET Lamps