UK-based start-up Mayku has released a vacuum former that's powered by a Hoover and small enough to fit on a desktop. More about Mayku shrinks the vacuum former to a desktop-friendly size with FormBox
Elizabeth Diller, one the architects behind the High Line, says the project's impact on New York real estate can teach architects "a really good lesson" on the need to manage gentrification in the second part of our exclusive video interview. More about Architects can help to manage gentrification caused by projects like the High Line, says Liz Diller
One-minute movie: RCA graduate Julian Melchiorri says his design for a synthetic biological leaf, which creates oxygen via photosynthesis like a real plant, could enable long-distance space travel. More about RCA graduate develops synthetic leaf that could aid space exploration
Architects should be more proactive in driving forward development proposals, says architect Elizabeth Diller in this exclusive video interview Dezeen filmed at the RIBA International Conference in London. More about Architects must work harder "to put new ideas on the table" says Liz Diller
One ring rules an entire augmented-reality interface in this project by Royal College of Art graduate Nat Martin. More about Scroll ring by RCA graduate Nat Martin lets users easily interact with augmented reality
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has released a movie detailing its proposal to extend the city's historic Union Station building with a ring-shaped, glazed passenger concourse. More about Ring-shaped concourse proposed for major renovation of Los Angeles' Union Station
A plan to build self-sufficient floating cities outside of national borders features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More about The Seasteading Institute's floating cities are designed for unregulated innovation
This captioned movie explores a proposal by RCA graduate Llywelyn James to tackle London's housing crisis by building 100-metre-long cantilevered structures on the city's undeveloped brownfield sites. More one-minute movies ›
More about RCA graduate proposes low-cost cantilevered homes to combat housing crisisThe soaring skyscrapers, manicured gardens and rubbish tips of Hong Kong are all shown in this drone footage shot by architect Mariana Bisti. More about Hong Kong's densely packed high-rises captured from above in drone movie by Mariana Bisti
Cascading balconies top this Brooklyn apartment block by American studio ODA, which is shown in a movie starring the design team throwing footballs, catching flowers and passing balloons between the terraces. More about ODA creates stepped terraces at corner of Brooklyn condo building
Our latest captioned movie features modular structures designed by Ten Fold Engineering, which can be transported anywhere on a lorry and self-deployed at the touch of a button. More one-minute movies ›
More about Prefab buildings by Ten Fold Engineering build themselves in eight minutesKvadrat Soft Cells design director Jesper Nielsen explains the advantages of the three-dimensional textile panel system his team is developing in this movie Dezeen filmed for Kvadrat in Copenhagen. More about Textiles are a "simple, smart material" says Kvadrat Soft Cells design director
What Design Can Do has teamed up with Autodesk Foundation and IKEA Foundation to launch the Climate Action Challenge, a competition inviting designers to come up with proposals responding to climate change. More about Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change
The world's first rope-less, horizontal-vertical elevator system – akin to Willy Wonka's glass elevator – has been installed inside a purpose-built innovation test tower in Germany. More about ThyssenKrupp unveils the world's first sideways-moving elevator system
Indian architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi reflected on 70 years of pioneering architectural projects in the Royal Academy of Arts' annual architecture lecture, which we streamed live via our Facebook page. More about Watch Balkrishna Doshi speak at the Royal Academy's 2017 annual architecture lecture
A vision to transform the desolate Los Angeles River into a bustling oasis featuring cycle paths, play areas, public art and kayaking facilities features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More about Los Angeles River could be revitalised with designs from seven architecture firms
This video shot by drone captures the late Zaha Hadid's Messner Mountain Museum, which is half buried into the peak of an Alpine mountain in Italy. More about Drone footage captures Zaha Hadid's mountaintop museum in South Tyrol
Following the UK launch of an affordable micro home that takes less than a day to build, here's a look at 10 properties from around the world that show how comfortable living can be created with limited funds. More about 10 innovative homes built on extremely tight budgets
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed new visuals of its proposed 185-metre tower in Melbourne, which will be made up of four stacked blocks with white filigree facades. More about Zaha Hadid Architects unveils new visuals for "stacked vases" hotel tower in Melbourne
Watch architects including David Chipperfield, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Ma Yansong and Elizabeth Diller speak at the Royal Institute of British Architects' International Conference in Dezeen's livestream from London. More about David Chipperfield, Amanda Levete and Odile Decq speak at RIBA International Conference