The Dezeen team was on the ground at Houghton Festival. Here are five standout installations from the festival, including a timber-and-thatch pavilion and a laser installation featuring a vintage campervan. More about Five standout art installations from Houghton Festival 2026
Design studios Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays have designed a timber-framed installation for this year's Houghton Festival in Norfolk, England, covering its walls with thatch sourced from sustainable reedbeds. More about Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays cloak tower with thatched walls at Houghton Festival
The concrete shell structure of the Norwich Sports Village designed by Swiss engineer Heinz Isler in Norfolk, UK, has been Grade II-listed. More about Heinz Isler-designed concrete-shell sports centre Grade II-listed
Benni Allan, founder of London studio EBBA Architects, has created an installation named Pulse for this year's Houghton Festival, which lights up in response to the surrounding trees. More about Benni Allan suspends glowing canopy in the Norfolk woodlands for Houghton Festival
Norwich Castle in Norfolk has reopened following the restoration of its 12th-century keep by British architecture studio Feilden and Mawson, which added glazed elements to modernise the Grade I-listed building. More about Feilden and Mawson completes restoration of 12th-century Norwich Castle
For the next instalment in our Building with Cob series, we take a look at the first home to be built with CobBauge, a cob construction system developed to meet modern building regulations. More about Hudson Architects brings cob construction into the 21st century with CobBauge House
Landscape architecture practice Maetherea Studio has used rusty iron rebars to create an "amphibious" installation that emerges from reedbeds of the River Yare in Norfolk. More about Maetherea Studio uses rusty metal to create Iron Reef in Norfolk
London studio Alexander Hills Architects has transformed Old Rectory Farm, a house in Norfolk, into an accessible residence with level-access living spaces. More about Alexander Hills Architects converts Norfolk farmhouse into accessible family home
An exposed steel structure and perforated copper cladding bring an industrial feel to The Dyson Building at Gresham's School in Norfolk, designed by architecture studio WilkinsonEyre. More about WilkinsonEyre uses industrial finishes for arts and engineering building in Norfolk
UK studio Hudson Architects has built a house in a Norfolk coastal village with Corten steel, glass and flint walls. More about Hudson Architects wraps Coast House in flint and Corten walls
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a home at Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk that looks like an ad hoc cluster of buildings. More about A "respectful" coastal home features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
UK studio Mole Architects has created a house named Freeholders within three contrasting volumes on the coast at Wells-next-the-Sea, UK. More about Mole Architects designs seaside home to look like an ad hoc cluster of buildings
DK-CM has built a cross-laminated timber reception pavilion with a diagrid roof in the gap between two junior schools in Norfolk, UK, to connect the previously separate institutions. More about DK-CM unites post-war and 1990s schools with CLT reception pavilion
Goldsmith Street is a Passivhaus and high-density social housing scheme by Mikhail Riches in Norwich, England, which is shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize. More about Mikhail Riches creates energy-efficient terraced streets as social housing in Norwich
This house in the Norfolk Broads by Platform 5 Architects features steeply pitched gables and shingle cladding intended to reference traditional boat sheds found alongside the surrounding waterways. More about Platform 5 Architects completes shingle-clad home overlooking a private lagoon
Demolition isn't the only solution to the problem of the UK's troubled housing estates according to architect Alex Ely, whose firm Mae Architects is renovating a series of 1960s slab blocks in Norfolk (+ slideshow). More about Mae Architects gives second life to unloved Hillington Square housing estate
What appears to be a cupboard is actually a staircase leading up to a tiny loft bedroom in this 18th-century barn in Norfolk, England, that Lynch Architects has converted into a holiday home (+ slideshow). More about Converted barn by Lynch Architects includes an interpretation of a Norfolk winder stair
The surrounding countryside is projected onto the ceiling of this reed-covered tower that Hudson Architects and artist Ben Coode-Adams have installed in a field in Norfolk, England. More about The Great Eye by Hudson Architects and Ben Coode-Adams
Oriented strand board lines every wall, floor and ceiling inside this residential barn extension in Norfolk, England, by London studio Carl Turner Architects. More about Stealth Barn by Carl Turner Architects
This extension to a mill-keeper's house on the Norfolk Broads by London studio Acme has been awarded the RIBA Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house in the UK. More about Hunsett Mill by Acme