The terrazzo trend shows no sign of slowing down, with the decorative speckled material cropping up in residential projects as well as in restaurants and workspaces. For this lookbook, we've rounded up ten playful and practical terrazzo kitchens. More about Ten architect-designed kitchens with terrazzo details
This week on Dezeen, the "first NFT digital house in the world" sold for over $500,000 as global interest in virtual design continued. More about This week a virtual house sold for over 0,000
Artist Mario García Torres has curated a new exhibition of ambiguous objects by designers including Hector Esrawe in a house in Mexico City. More about Mario García Torres curates design exhibition in Mexico City house
Dezeen promotion: Swedish furniture brand Lammhults has opened its redesigned flagship showroom designed by Atelier Paul Vaugoyeau in Stockholm, marking an evolution in its creative direction. More about Lammhults relaunches Stockholm showroom to mark new creative direction
As New York prepares to legalise recreational marijuana, we've rounded up five of the most enticing retail spaces created by interior designers for cannabis dispensaries and CBD shops in the USA and Canada. More about Five cannabis dispensaries and shops with soothing interiors
The architects behind 16 disaster relief shelters built following the Tōhoku earthquake as part of Toyo Ito's Home-for-All project have shared their thoughts on the buildings that are still in use as community centres. More about Architects reflect on Tōhoku earthquake community centres ten years on
Danish designer Stine Mikkelsen explores her mixed feelings about minimalism with In-tangibles, a series of sculptures influenced by family heirlooms and highlighted in our Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2021 collaboration. More about In-tangibles sculptures by Stine Mikkelsen honour her most-loved keepsakes
Japanese architecture studio Unemori Architects has designed a small house formed of several stacked boxes wrapped in corrugated steel on a 26-square-metre plot in Tokyo. More about Unemori Architects creates small blocky house on "tiny plot" in Tokyo
Dezeen Showroom: Hopper is an aluminium picnic table designed by Flemish designer Dirk Wynants for his own company, Belgian furniture makers Extremis. More about Dirk Wynants designs Hopper picnic table for Extremis
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati is among four winners of the global Helsinki Energy Challenge, with a proposal to create island-like, floating seawater reservoirs that would store heat to help decarbonise the city's heating network. More about Carlo Ratti Associati proposes floating reservoirs to create carbon-free heating for Helsinki
Tigg Coll Architects has revamped the common spaces of a student housing block in east London, to create areas where students can feel comfortable being around others. More about Tigg Coll Architects creates space for socialising in Chapter Old Street student housing
Drivers of BMW's upcoming iX electric sports activity vehicle will experience an interactive soundscape by movie composer Hans Zimmer instead of traditional engine sounds. More about BMW's new electric iX car will feature "a completely new symphony" composed by Hans Zimmer
Dezeen promotion: bathroom manufacturer Ideal Standard has unveiled its latest product range, which includes colourful design-led appliances and fixtures. More about Ideal Standard launches Atelier Collections for the bathroom
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a layered home encased in a perforated ceramic wall with a series of elevated gardens that function as a natural cooling system. More about Vo Trong Nghia Architects wraps Bat Trang House in perforated ceramic brick facade
Artist and designer Duyi Han has produced a series of renderings featuring objects by 41 seminal Italian designers such as Ettore Sottsass and Enzo Mari displayed in 3D environments borrowed from popular culture. More about Duyi Han creates retro renderings of Italian design objects for virtual exhibition
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a library in Norway designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates in collaboration with Mad Arkitekter. More about A library in Norway designed by Kengo Kuma features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Casa Covida is a hut in Colorado made from 3D-printed adobe by American studio Emerging Objects for two people to live together in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. More about Emerging Objects builds 3D-printed mud hut for a cohabiting couple during Covid-19
Kaleidoscopic expressionist architecture has taken over from the efficiency of modernism in the glass objects of Danish artist Stine Bidstrup, showcased in our Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2021 collaboration. More about Stine Bidstrup imagines alternate anti-modernist world with Architectural Glass Fantasies
Architecture studio Azab has revamped a farmhouse on the edge of the town of Loiu in Spain and divided it into homes for a woman and her parents. More about Azab splits Spanish farmhouse into two interconnected modern homes
Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has created a distinctive flagship store for Louis Vuitton in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district with an undulating facade and interiors by architect Peter Marino. More about Jun Aoki & Associates wraps Louis Vuitton's Tokyo store in "poetic yet playful" pearlescent facade