British designer Samuel Ross is exhibiting a series of massive furniture pieces made from stone, metal and wood at Friedman Benda gallery for NYCxDesign, representing his lived experience of the African diaspora in the UK. More
American architecture studios Gensler and Civilian have restored the historic Book Depository building in Detroit and transformed it into the headquarters for technology company Newlab. More
Dezeen is hosting events with several international brands during NYCxDesign, with talks and social events throughout the city, including conversations with Tom Dixon and Luca Nichetto and parties with Japanese brand Muji and local design gallery TRNK. More
A 36-metre-long brise soleil has been covered with screens showing the colonial history of tropical modernism at the Applied Arts Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
Dezeen Showroom: design duo and brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have created a sleek wooden dining table for Japanese furniture brand Koyori that "rethinks modelled plywood furniture". More
Promotion: as part of Salone del Mobile 2023, Italian furniture brand Pedrali has released a number of products in collaboration with Italian and international designers for both residential and contract environments. More
Dezeen Showroom: designer Patricia Urquiola has developed a collection of outdoor rugs and seating modules for Spanish brand Gan, which reference knitted jumpers. More
The Australia pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is exclusively revealed here, features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown. More
Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week. In this exclusive interview, curator Lesley Lokko explains why she placed Africa at the heart of the festival for the first time. More
Moving calligraphic scrolls will continually plot the response of visitors to a series of questions about architecture's intangible qualities at the Singapore's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively here. More
Dezeen Showroom: British furniture manufacturer Allermuir has released a stackable plywood stool named Ooty, created by London-based design duo SmithMatthias. More
Designer Mac Collins is among those exhibiting works at the British Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which celebrates how global diasporic communities design space. More
In this week's comments update, readers discussed Tilly Talbot, a designer powered by artificial intelligence, as well as other top architecture and design stories. More
Architects Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and Gregg Pasquarelli, climate pioneer Naveed Chaudhry, curator Samta Nadeem and photographer Taran Wilkhu have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2023 judges. More
A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world's unsustainable approach to sanitation. More
In this video produced for Holcim by Dezeen, Norman Foster introduces a housing prototype for displaced people that the Norman Foster Foundation developed with the building materials company and unveiled at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
Dezeen has teamed up with Material Bank for a live panel talk next week in London exploring how its easy-access platform is changing the way that architects and designers specify materials. More
Mankind's relationship to single-use plastics is the focus of the US Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively online as part of a day of pavilion openings. More
A model that imagines a mermaid's view of the rising sea levels features in Coastal Imaginaries exhibition at the Danish Pavilion, which is the first in a series of exclusive Venice Architecture Biennale online pavilion openings. More
Dezeen Showroom: Belgian flooring brand Modulyss reflected on Flemish landscapes and identity to create the Heritage collection of tactile carpet tiles. More