NYCxDesign 2025, Boston Design Week and Capital Brutalism are among the current and upcoming architecture and design events in the US that are featured in Dezeen Events Guide. More about Five US architecture and design events from Dezeen Events Guide
A near-continuous curved facade and slatted screens have been included to create privacy for this house designed by Canadian studio Architecture Building Culture on a prominent rocky outcrop in West Vancouver. More about Architecture Building Culture wraps white curved facade around Piano House in Canada
A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed by local architecture practice 2m26. More about Purple flowers crown thatched sheep pen in Japan by 2m26
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a curved concrete church in Albania completed by architecture practice Arkpro Studio. More about "An interesting little church" says commenter
Local practice Fffaaarrr has designed a coffee shop-cum-tennis club, complete with full-size tennis court, in the centre of the Indonesian capital. More about Fffaaarrr completes "experiment in typology" with tennis court coffee shop in Jakarta
American studios Lehrer Architects and AyD have used thick concrete slabs to create an open-air "vertical mausoleum" covered with trees within a renowned Los Angeles cemetery. More about Lehrer Architects and AyD create tree-covered mausoleum for Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Photos of construction at the Obama Presidential Center Museum Building in Chicago have shown an exterior wrapped in granite panels, as well as the interior of the partially completed uppermost floors. More about Photos reveal construction progress on granite-wrapped Obama Presidential Center museum
A sheltered external walkway connects two wings of this pavilion-like house in New South Wales, Australia, designed by local studio DFJ Architects to facilitate family gatherings. More about DFJ Architects links wings of Mango Lane house with external walkway
Dutch studios MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have revealed plans to overhaul a vacant church in the Netherlands by adding a swimming pool with an adjustable floor that allows visitors to "walk on water". More about MVRDV unveils design for Holy Water swimming pool in former Dutch church
Sweeping rib-like strips of aluminium cloak the facade of SAP Garden, a sports stadium in Munich's Olympic Park recently completed by Danish studio 3XN. More about Aluminium ribs wrap sports arena by 3XN in Munich's Olympic Park
Low-carbon building and affordable housing in the US are likely to be particularly badly hit by uncertainty around president Donald Trump's import tariffs, experts have told Dezeen. More about Sustainable architecture and affordable housing will be tariff casualties, experts warn
American architecture studios Handel Architects and HWKN have completed the Journal Squared development in New Jersey, USA, which contains three skyscrapers with gridded facades. More about Three connected white-clad skyscrapers completed in New Jersey
Sweden-based group Architectural Uprising has released an announcement naming Steven Holl Architect's Simmons Hall at MIT the winner of its International Aesthetic Atrocity Awards. More about Anti-modernist architecture group declares Simmons Hall "America's ugliest building"
Indonesian architecture studio RAD+ar has completed Sanctuary Tunnel Garden, a religious retreat nestled inside a concrete exoskeleton in West Java, Indonesia. More about RAD+ar frames Indonesian chapel with tunnel-like concrete exoskeleton
Japanese company Serendix has completed what it claims is the world's first 3D-printed railway station in Arida, Japan, which was constructed in the hours between the last and first train services. More about "World's first" 3D-printed railway station built in Japan in six hours
London studio Satish Jassal Architects has completed a net-zero social housing complex on a disused site in the London Borough of Haringey. More about Satish Jassal Architects completes net-zero social housing on London infill site
If you're hosting an event during the 2025 edition of NYCxDesign, there's still time to be included in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to the festival. More about You can still feature in Dezeen's digital guide to NYCxDesign 2025
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a Norwegian woodland cabin by Quentin Desfarges. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about This week's Dezeen Debate features "drop-dead gorgeous" cabin
California studio Brooks + Scarpa has included roofs with exaggerated gables for the angular black-metal-clad Steeplechase house in the forests of North Carolina, USA, designed to merge modern and traditional elements. More about Brooks + Scarpa "revitalises traditional forms" with gabled North Carolina house
A web of wooden joinery designed to mimic the rafters of a boat frames the Bahrain Pavilion, designed by Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh for the Expo 2025 Osaka. More about Lina Ghotmeh brings "sense of voyage" to Osaka Expo with boat-like Bahrain Pavilion