Nike has launched an app setting that provides "hyper-accurate" sizing recommendations for each of its shoes by scanning your feet with a smartphone camera. More about Nike app uses AR and AI to scan feet for perfect fit
Paris-based architect Vincent Callebaut wants to give Notre-Dame Cathedral a new roof that generates energy and contains an aquaponic farm. More about Vincent Callebaut proposes a roof that generates energy and food for Notre-Dame Cathedral
The UK government has promised to pay to replace combustible cladding on private high-rise housing, almost two years after the Grenfell Tower fire. More about UK government will pay £200 million to replace Grenfell-style cladding
Aged brick walls and ceiling beams hint at the past lives of this building in Barcelona, which Cadaval & Solà-Morales has turned into a contemporary home. More about Cadaval & Solà-Morales converts 19th-century theatre into spacious Barcelona home
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has designed a temporary replacement for the House of Commons, to be used by UK Parliament while the Houses of Parliament is restored. More about Plans unveiled for temporary UK Parliament designed by AHMM
New York firm SHoP Architects has designed an irregularly stacked office building for the US Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. More about SHoP unveils US Embassy offices for lush site in Bangkok
The University of Stuttgart has continued its experiments into biomimicry and robotic construction with two pavilions at the Bundesgartenschau horticultural show in Germany. More about University of Stuttgart creates biomimetic pavilions based on sea urchins and beetle wings
The European Union has awarded its annual architecture prize to Transformation of 530 Dwellings, a renovation of 1960s housing in France by Frédéric Druot Architecture, Lacaton & Vassal Architectes and Christophe Hutin Architecture. More about Social housing revamp in Bordeaux wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2019
The Guggenheim Foundation has revealed that its Frank Gehry-designed art museum in the United Arab Emirates is "on track" to complete in four years time. More about Construction set to begin on Frank Gehry's long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Architecture office MLZD has built a sports hall with a sculptural concrete wall below ground level to preserve views of a heritage-listed converted monastery in Wettingen, Switzerland. More about MLZD adds subterranean sports hall to school in a former monastery
Dutch architecture studio GG-loop has built a pair of prefabricated apartments in Amsterdam with timber louvres positioned to regulate the levels of light entering the building. More about GG-loop wraps Freebooter apartments with cedar louvres
Chinese architects must gain the confidence to develop China's rural areas sustainably, not just turn them into urban sprawl, says architect Li Xiaodong. More about Chinese architects must find a new way to "urbanise the countryside" says Li Xiaodong
An elephant, giraffe and crocodile are among the animals that Federico Babina has illustrated in these zoomorphic floor plans. More about Federico Babina merges animals with architecture for Planimals floor plans
In this movie, artist Matthew Mazzotta says the success of The Storefront Theater, which won him Architecture Project of the Year at the inaugural Dezeen Awards, comes down to the way the local community has made use of it. More about The Storefront Theater is successful because "the community takes it and makes it their own"
This architecture movie shows Atelier Chen Hung's compact Keperra House, located in a post-war suburb of Brisbane, Australia. More about Take a video tour of Atelier Chen Hung's tiny Keperra House
Indian architecture office Nudes has developed a concept for a secondary school in Malawi, with a modular wooden structure and curved walls made from straw bales. More about Stacked straw bales form walls for conceptual school in Malawi by Nudes
Chunky columns covered in aggregate puncture through galleries in Sotheby's New York headquarters, which has just re-opened to the public following a major overhaul designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu. More about OMA completes renovation of Sotheby's New York galleries
American firms Wade Design Architects and Geremia Design took cues from "modern farmhouse architecture" to create a wood-clad home in northern California's wine country for a retiring couple. More about Calistoga Residence in Napa Valley draws on local barns and farmhouses
A courtyard divides this house that Pitsou Kedem Architects has built in the Savyon district of Israel, but elevated walkways and ramps connect the two sides. More about Bridges link two sides of Split House in Israel by Pitsou Kedem Architects
Architecture studio Fala Atelier has converted a former clothing factory in the town of Abragão, Portugal, into a block of six bare apartments. More about Fala Atelier strips back former factory to create "naked" apartments