Transformable flying AirCar awarded airworthiness certificate
A flying car capable of converting from a road to an air vehicle has been granted an airworthiness certification in Slovakia, as its makers eye mass manufacturing. More
Powerhouse Company designs serene mass-timber lecture hall for Tilburg University
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has unveiled its design for the Netherlands' first mass-timber university building — a square lecture hall that references modernist and monastic architecture. More
Previously unrecycleable clothing made into Fibers Unsorted textile
Design studio Envisions has worked with engineering company Imat-Uve to make a recycled textile from used clothing usually considered unfit for recycling. More
Animated ArchiPaper farmhouse gets built in Poland
BXB Studio has completed a house built of five overlapping barns that was the basis of the dream-like animated short film ArchiPaper. More
Ikeuchi Hiroto sculpts wearable cyberpunk fantasias from gadgets
Overloaded cyberpunk masks, hulking exoskeletons and other imagined wearable tech feature in an exhibition by artist Ikeuchi Hiroto, who mixes pop culture references and model-making. More
Milan's L'Innesto development to provide net-zero social housing
Architecture studio Barreca & La Varra has designed a social housing project for Milan called L'Innesto, which will be carbon-neutral and encourage community self-management through shared spaces. More
Google buys Renzo Piano's Central Saint Giles as London office
Search engine company Google has purchased the Renzo Piano-designed Central Saint Giles development in London for £730 million, as it commits to a future of physical office working. More
Paul Priestman announces departure from PriestmanGoode
Paul Priestman, the chair of design studio PriestmanGoode, has announced he is leaving the company which he co-founded more than three decades ago. More
Hyundai proposes "Mobility of Things" system to add robotic technology to everyday objects
Hyundai has revealed its concept for a system called the "Mobility of Things", which would turn previously inanimate objects into robots and allow people to reconfigure spaces on demand. More
Yinka Ilori creates maze of colour and sound for V&A Dundee
Designer Yinka Ilori has created a colourful maze-like installation called Listening to Joy for the V&A Dundee, exploring the difference between how adults and children approach space. More
SOM unveils "breathing" Shenzhen bank tower enclosed in diagrid
Architecture firm SOM has completed its headquarters for Shenzhen's Rural Commercial Bank, a naturally ventilated steel-wrapped office building with an exterior that resembles an exoskeleton. More
Postmodern architecture celebrated in illustrations by Adam Nathaniel Furman
Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created a vividly coloured illustration series called Postmodern Icons, which celebrates buildings such as London's Isle of Dogs Pumping Station and Chicago's James R Thompson Center. More
Max Lamb crafts minimalist altar for St John Chrysostom Church
British designer Max Lamb has turned his hand to ecclesiastical objects, creating an altar, candles and floor for a church in London. More
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair postponed to September 2022
Organisers of the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair have announced the event will be pushed back from its scheduled date in February due to coronavirus for a second consecutive year. More
Architect Helmut Jahn memorialised in short documentary In a Flash
Architectural filmmaker Nathan Eddy explores the life and work of Helmut Jahn in this documentary, which was created after the architect's death earlier this year. More
Adidas to enter the metaverse with first NFT products
Adidas has announced its next collection will be a mix of digital and physical items, and will be sold as NFTs produced with collaborators such as Bored Ape Yacht Club. More
Kelly Wearstler creates modernist Gingerbread Dreamhouse
Interior designer Kelly Wearstler has put an architectural spin on a Christmas classic, creating a gingerbread house in a California modernist style. More
Heatherwick proposal for Nottingham development incorporates ruins of shopping centre
Designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio has proposed retaining and rewilding the frame of a partly demolished shopping centre to form a new mixed-use development and public leisure space in Nottingham. More
"The great transformer of Barcelona" architect Oriol Bohigas dies aged 95
Oriol Bohigas, the Catalan architect behind the modernisation of Barcelona, has died at the age of 95. More
Wonho Lee creates Brise fan hidden inside a side table
An electric fan is disguised as an understated side table in Brise, a student project from Hongik University graduate Wonho Lee. More