Design Museum will showcase Prada, trainers and electronic music in 2020 as visitor numbers rise
London's Design Museum has unveiled its exhibition programme for 2020, with a major show about fashion brand Prada due to open in September. More
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Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre is high-tech architecture's most flamboyant structure
Next in our high-tech architecture series is Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre in Swindon, one of the most expressive and distinctive examples of the style. More
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London cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows
A spiral cafe with a rooftop garden in Chelsea, London, by architecture studio NEX has curved windows that can retract fully when the weather is good. More
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Madeline Hall reinterprets religious imagery as "psychedelic" ceramic sculptures
Ceramicist Madeline Hall's graduation project from Central Saint Martins was this collection of brightly coloured, gravity-defying sculptures based on religious scenes. More
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Park Road Apartments is a radical housing tower clad in "ridiculous" metal
Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw built Park Road Apartments, which contained their own homes, in the 1970s. We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the metal-clad housing block. More
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House Lessans in rural Northern Ireland wins RIBA House of the Year 2019
A "dream home" built on the "tightest of budgets"Â by architects McGonigle McGrath has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the UK's best house of 2019. More
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RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner Ted Cullinan dies aged 88
RIBA Royal Gold Medal winning architect Edward Cullinan, founder of Cullinan Studio, has passed away aged 88. More
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Hopkins House is a high-tech home for two of the pioneers of the movement
Hopkins House was designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins as their own home. We take a look at the lightweight steel and glass house as part of our series on high-tech architecture. More
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Gus Casely-Hayford appointed as first director of V&A East
British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. More
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UK architects unionise to challenge industry's "toxic culture" of long hours and low pay
Unpaid overtime, unfair pay and harassment in the workplace are just some of the reasons that architecture workers in the UK have formed a grassroots trade union for the first time. More
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Europe's largest green wall "will absorb eight tonnes of pollution annually" in London
Sheppard Robson has unveiled the mixed-use Citicape House in London that will have the "largest living wall in Europe" to help improve local air quality. More
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Threefold Architects completes Airbnb's latest London office
A 15th-century painting of a studious priest became Threefold Architects'Â point of reference for the design of Airbnb's latest office, located in central London. More
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Stanton Williams "puts science on show" at London research centre for rare child diseases
The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in London by architect Stanton Williams features street-level glazing that allow people walking past to peer into its laboratories. More
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Made Thought creates "a website that exists" in the form of a pop-up shop
Design studio Made Thought has imagined the shop of the future, with an experimental pop-up in London that has a lot in common with a digital experience. More
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Sam Jacob Studio completes An Office Of Stacked Things
Orange-tinted acrylic tubes and tree bark are among the objects that Sam Jacob Studio has piled up on the shelves inside this London office. More
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Studio Ben Allen makes Room for One More inside Barbican flat
Studio Ben Allen has updated a flat on London's brutalist Barbican estate to feature a colourful central volume that includes a bed, fold-out desk and extra storage space. More
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The Hoxton, Southwark hotel is informed by the area's lost industrial landscape
Dezeen promotion: the abundance of industrial factories that once populated south London influence the interiors of The Hoxton's latest outpost, which hotelier Ennismore has opened in Southwark. More
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Muf works with primary school pupils to build Golden Lane Estate playground
Architecture studio Muf has built an open-air playground, featuring a geometrical climbing structure and a stage for performances. More
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Inquiry finds "compelling evidence" Grenfell Tower did not comply with building regulations
Insulation, cladding and decorative fins added to the exterior of Grenfell Tower during refurbishment made it noncompliant with building regulations, the inquiry into the disaster has found. More
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Peter Marino channels happiness for renovation of Louis Vuitton store in west London
Peter Marino has used artwork by Tracy Emin and the Campana Brothers to animate the interior of Louis Vuitton's New Bond Street store, which has reopened after more than a year of renovation works. More
