The Design Museum's latest exhibition, Sneakers Unboxed, showcases the popular shoe as a design object. Curator Ligaya Salazar picks five exhibits that show how the trainer has been at the forefront of material and user innovation. More about Design Museum curator picks five most innovative trainers from Sneakers Unboxed
Entries for Dezeen Awards 2021 close in five days! To help you prepare your entry and submit it before midnight BST on 2 June, we’ve put together some answers to five key questions: More about Five days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2021
The Cork House, designed by CSK Architects in collaboration with the Bartlett, was the subject of the second Dezeen x Knauf Architecture Project Talk. Register now to watch the recording. More about Watch our Architecture Project Talk about the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Cork House
French architect Nicolas Laisné has contributed to the Venice Architecture Biennale with a concept for high-rise buildings that combine live and workspaces, indoor and outdoor rooms, and various degrees of privacy. More about Nicolas Laisné imagines new type of high-rise that combines living and working
Lebanese designer Khaled El Mays has designed the Transformers collection, featuring a handmade sofa and armchairs that look like they could stand up and unfurl into giant creatures. More about Khaled El Mays' Transformers furniture collection evokes crouched robots
Promotion: Design Shanghai returns to present a host of Chinese and international brands alongside a cultural programme exploring how design can have a positive impact on people and the planet. More about Design Shanghai trade show returns with focus on regenerative design
The elevated topography of Little Island was designed to create a sense of escape from Manhattan, according to designer Thomas Heatherwick in this interview with Dezeen. More about Little Island designed to create "the feeling of leaving Manhattan behind" says Thomas Heatherwick
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes Tadao Ando's restoration and redesign of the Bourse de Commerce building in Paris. More about Tadao Ando's redesign of the Bourse de Commerce building in Paris features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Dezeen promotion: Milanese architect Piero Lissoni has completed his collection of seating designs for American furniture brand Knoll. More about Knoll presents Piero Lissoni's complete KN Collection in online video show
Architecture office MIA Design Studio has used a delicate lattice of timber battens and metal mesh to create this pavilion for architectural events in Thủ Đức in Vietnam. More about MIA Design Studio creates pavilion designed to look like a giant pile of straw
David Adjaye received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal last night in a virtual ceremony featuring video messages from luminaries including Bono and Barack Obama, who said the architect creates spaces "unlike any the world has ever seen". More about Obama and Bono praise David Adjaye's "genius" at star-studded Royal Gold Medal virtual event
With less than a week to go until entries for Dezeen Awards 2021 close, we've asked some of our judges what they'll be looking for in this year's entries. More about "I expect more designers to consider the fragility of the status quo" says Dezeen Awards 2021 judge Shahar Livne
Fosters + Partners has restored and converted the Palazzo Marignoli in Rome into an Apple Store, uncovering historic features and opening up a central courtyard. More about Foster + Partners turns palazzo in Rome into Apple Store
Dezeen Showroom: Oslo-based studio Anderssen & Voll has created a duo of slender-framed desks for Danish brand &tradition that fit seamlessly into the home. More about Pavilion AV16 and AV17 desks by Anderssen & Voll for &tradition
In the final video showcasing the finalists of Dezeen and LG Display's OLEDs Go! competition, Yunchik Lee and Bomi Kim discuss their design for an OLED display that can be easily moved and rearranged for use in different rooms. More about Yunchik Lee and Bomi Kim design trolley with reconfigurable OLED display
Italian designer Andrew Kostman has created a metallic inflatable puffer jacket that is filled with helium instead of down and can be carried around like a balloon. More about Helium-10000 is an inflatable puffer coat that floats like a balloon
A "rich and interesting" refurbishment of a Victorian house by Studio Ben Allen has been named London's best new home improvement project in the Don't Move, Improve! awards. More about The House Recast by Studio Ben Allen wins Don't Move, Improve! 2021
Individual visitors will be banned from Thomas Heatherwick's Vessel attraction in New York when it reopens on Friday, four months after a third suicide forced it to close. More about Thomas Heatherwick's Vessel to reopen in New York on Friday with buddy system to prevent suicides
New York's Hudson River Park Trust has begun construction on Gansevoort Peninsula, a riverfront park by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations that will be home to Manhattan's first public beach. More about Gansevoort Peninsula by James Corner Field Operations will feature Manhattan's first beach
Scottish architecture practice Kettle Collective has unveiled designs for a 703-metre-high supertall skyscraper in St Petersburg, Russia, which would be the second tallest building in the world. More about Kettle Collective plans to build world's second tallest tower in Russia