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Alejandro Aravena named as director of 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been appointed as artistic director for the Venice Architecture Biennale, which will focus on the "battles to be won" to improve quality of life within the built environment. More
First London Design Biennale to launch in 2016 at Somerset House
London is set to get its own international design biennial, based on the model of the Venice art and architecture biennales, and directed by former Icon editor Christopher Turner. More
14 of the best contemporary beach houses and seaside holiday homes
Beach houses have long been associated with traditional clapboard architecture – but architects are reinventing the vernacular, swapping roofs for swimming pools and introducing dramatic cantilevers. Here are 14 of the best contemporary examples from the pages of Dezeen. More
This week we like: Herzog & de Meuron
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron dominated the news last week, winning permission to build Paris' first skyscraper for 40 years and unveiling its redesign of Chelsea FC's stadium. The studio even found time to finish a mountain-top restaurant and cable-car station. Read all our stories about Herzog & de Meuron »
"Rules are for those who don't otherwise know how to design"
Comments update: the winning design in the much-hyped Guggenheim Helsinki competition was among the most commented stories on Dezeen this week. Read on for more on this, plus other lively comments threads. More
Sebastian Cox's "urban rustic" kitchen for DeVol features sawn and woven timber
British designer-craftsman Sebastian Cox has designed a kitchen for English brand DeVol that features rough-sawn timber and panels of woven beech. More
This week on Dezeen
It's been a busy week in architecture with the winner of the Guggenheim Helsinki competition revealed (pictured), and the opening of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. We also published interviews with some of the design industry's most influential figures, including Alessandro Mendini and Philippe Starck. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. More
Studio Dror's conceptual tower designs for New York offer three takes on high-rise architecture
Designer Dror Benshetrit has unveiled three proposals for residential towers on different sites in New York. More
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Guggenheim Helsinki winners: "architecture is best conceived in reserve and introspection"
Moreau Kusunoki Architectes, the Paris-based practice that will design the Guggenheim Helsinki, has deliberately avoided media attention since it was founded in 2011. Dezeen looks at the unknown French-Japanese office that has won the biggest architecture competition of the year (+ interview). More
"Good taste has nothing to do with sexism"
Comments update: is this image sexist? Photos of model in an Australian house prompted a discussion on the way women are represented in architecture. Read more on this and more lively comment threads on Dezeen. More
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Moreau Kusunoki Architectes wins Guggenheim Helsinki competition
French firm Moreau Kusunoki Architectes has been named as the winner of the Guggenheim Helsinki competition (+ slideshow). More
Competition: win tickets to Kazuyo Sejima's talk at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to offer readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a talk with Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA. More
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen we reported on plans for Álvaro Siza's first building in the US, the opening of the OMA-designed Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and a remote cabin in Washington state (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture, interiors and design news, plus our track of the week. More
SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion nears completion
New construction images show this year's colourful Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano, which is rapidly nearing completion ahead of its opening next week (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen Mail #258
Plans to 3D print an entire pedestrian bridge in Amsterdam using robots (pictured), Ole Scheeren's stacked-volume skyscraper in Vancouver and an Australian house inspired by Brazilian Modernist architecture feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Indian architect Charles Correa dies aged 84
Charles Correa, described as "India's greatest architect", has died following a short illness. More
Daniel Libeskind plans three angular skyscrapers for Rome
After the Walkie Talkie, here is a trio of Trimphones: New York-based architect Daniel Libeskind has unveiled designs for three towers to be built near the new AS Roma football stadium, with the tallest reaching 220 metres in height (+ slideshow). More
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art by OMA opens in Moscow
The polycarbonate-clad Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA, has opened in a refurbished Soviet-era restaurant in Moscow's Gorky Park (+ slideshow). More
Ole Scheeren's Vancouver skyscraper will offer a "new typology for vertical living"
Architect Ole Scheeren has unveiled his first solo project outside of Asia – a Vancouver skyscraper that will feature a series of offset apartments protruding from the facade in a cluster of irregularly stacked glass boxes (+ slideshow). More
MVRDV's Zaanstad Cultural Cluster will house five Dutch institutions in one building
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has won a competition to design the Cultural Cluster in the heart of the city of Zaanstad, with a proposal to group multiple institutions inside one building – each with their own house-shaped presence on the facade. More