Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed two public toilets for the Tokyo Toilet project with transparent glass walls that become opaque when they are occupied. More about Shigeru Ban designs pair of transparent public toilets in Tokyo
A staircase punctured with rectangle-shaped holes is the focal point of this two-storey extension Grey Griffiths Architects has added to a workers' cottage in west London. More about Step House extension built around perforated birch-ply staircase
In this video, Dezeen x Samsung Out of the Box Competition finalist Revaz Berdzenishvili explains how he transformed a box for Samsung's The Serif television into an attractive and practical storage solution called Kibe. More about Revaz Berdzenishvili repurposes Samsung Eco-Package box to create stepped storage unit
Climate change and rising sea levels are impacting the design and shape of our cities. Edward Barsley, author of Retrofitting for Flood Resilience, outlines six key strategies for creating environments that are adapted to flooding. More about Six strategies for creating flood-resilient environments
Barcelona-based designer Sanna Völker has curated a collection of seven furniture and homeware pieces, which were created during coronavirus lockdown to reflect the unique limitations and opportunities of the current moment. More about Seven designers share objects created within a kilometre of home during lockdown
Shanghai architecture studio Atelier XÜK has created a series of timber interventions to turn a former school in Qinyong, China into a hotel while leaving its original, solid masonry structure intact. More about Atelier XÜK converts disused Chinese primary school into boutique hotel
Bright yellow metal grates that take cues from a mango tree detail the facade of this apartment building in Manaus, Brazil designed by local studio Laurent Troost Architectures. More about Yellow grates filter light into apartment building by Laurent Troost Architectures
Architecture studio La Shed Architecture has built a large agricultural barn with polycarbonate sheeting walls for a farm in Montérégie, Québec. More about La Shed Architecture creates translucent barn to give cows "a better quality of life"
Geometric forms and graphic terrazzo surfaces feature in this duplex apartment in Ho Chi Minh City that has been updated by Whale Design Lab. More about Whale Design Lab references Louis Kahn for makeover of Mài Apartment in Vietnam
Architecture studio O'Donnell + Tuomey used rows of laminated timber to create Cavanagh Bridge, which has been built over Ireland's River Lee to improve connections to University College Cork. More about O'Donnell + Tuomey creates timber and concrete pedestrian bridge at University College Cork
Tel Aviv practice Plesner Architects has built a hotel in the Negev desert of Israel harnessing local materials and regional craft like limestone walls, ceramics and pergolas. More about Plesner Architects builds Six Senses Shaharut hotel in the Israeli desert
US studio Field Architecture has designed the dining room of this house in a suburb of Silicon Valley, California so it is open to the outdoors and frames an oak tree. More about Dawnridge House by Field Architecture splits in two around giant oak tree
Chinese electronics company Xiaomi has unveiled its Mi TV LUX see-through television, which displays images that appear to be "floating in the air". More about Xiaomi launches world's first mass-produced transparent TV
Following the popularity of a riverside house that an architect and designer built for themselves in Australia, we've rounded up 10 other original self-designed homes by architects and designers from around the world. More about Ten self-designed homes that reflect the unique styles of their owners
This week on Dezeen, we revealed the longlisted architecture, interiors and design projects that are in line to win this year's Dezeen Awards, as well as the studios producing the best work. More about This week, we unveiled the longlists for Dezeen Awards 2020
Italian architect Piero Lissoni's studio has designed a conceptual skyscraper in New York as a self-contained community and vertical urban farm that would provide an example of living in the post-Covid era. More about Piero Lissoni designs conceptual New York skyscraper to be "self-sufficient garden-city"
Architecture firm Collective has inserted a stage with a green curtain for hosting events in the back of the ONS Clothing store in New York City. More about Collective installs stage in New York ONS Clothing store
This school show by Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture features 10 student projects, including a hub for upcycling low-value materials and a proposal that reimagines the purpose of Times Square. More about ESALA presents 10 student architecture and landscape projects
New York-based Japanese designer Nao Tamura has squeezed a red public toilet block onto a triangular plot in Tokyo's downtown Shibuya district as part of the Tokyo Toilet project. More about Nao Tamura bases triangular toilet block in Tokyo on Japanese craft of Origata
Architectural photographer Sebastian Weiss has captured the brightly coloured La Muralla Roja housing estate designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in his latest photo series. More about Sebastian Weiss photographs Ricardo Bofill's "delightfully confusing" La Muralla Roja