Kiosks with stainless steel canopies and a towering glass and chrome sculpture are among the recent enhancements made to Chicago's Navy Pier, one of the largest public piers in the world. More
Dutch footwear brand United Nude has teamed up with Japanese fashion label Issey Miyake to create two new designs – a fragmented platform sandal with a wooden sole and a wrapped leather shoe. More
A footbridge providing the main access point to the AL_A-designed Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon has been closed over fears of collapse, after 15,000 visitors turned out for the opening of the museum. More
The world's biggest architecture firm has proposed moving the UK's Lords and MPs into a bubble-like building on London's River Thames to reduce the cost of refurbishing the crumbling Houses of Parliament. More
Designers raided the SCP warehouse for discarded furniture to make the pieces in the The Thing With MaltaSingh exhibition, set to be auctioned next week. More
Architecture firm FXFOWLE has unveiled plans for a new museum beside the Statue of Liberty, featuring a green roof and viewing platform overlooking New York harbour. More
Designers have been tickled pink recently. We're counting down the most-pinned examples of pink interiors on Dezeen, including a Japanese nail salon inspired by a French manicure and an Antwerp fashion boutique with a cabinet full of barbie dolls. More
Colossal public artworks like Thomas Heatherwick's interlinking staircases for New York are the architectural monuments of our time, says Aaron Betsky in this Opinion column. More
Sue Architekten has converted a 1930s outhouse near Vienna into a writing studio, guest room and playhouse, accessed via a trapdoor. More
Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Owl & Dog Playbooks to give away five copies of a children's book filled with pre-scored sheets for making folded paper models of fish. More
A grand window offers views of the woodland and sea in this house in Hanko, Finland, designed by Mer Architects as a contemporary update of the town's historic villas. More
London design studio JamesPlumb has revisited an antique textile that is created using medieval techniques, and has this time used it to create a limited-edition bench. More
American firm ZGF Architects has completed a cancer centre in downtown Phoenix with a faceted, copper-coloured screen that evokes the scaly skin of a desert reptile. More