Barbican celebrates Matrix feminist design group in How We Live Now exhibition
The pioneering work of 1980s group the Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative is the subject of How We Live Now, an exhibition at The Barbican that looks at the biases in architecture and the built environment. More
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance creates furniture showcasing beauty of discarded burnt cork
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has used discarded burnt cork to create this furniture collection featuring sinuous forms and a gradient of textures. More
Tilda coat rack by Etc.etc. for Schönbuch
Dezeen Showroom: Etc.etc. has designed a coat stand attached to a pouf for Schönbuch as a versatile piece of furniture for hallways or bedrooms. More
Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects marries indoors and outdoors with Half Barn in Hashimoto
A simple gabled barn structure frames half interior, half exterior spaces in this rural Japanese home by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects. More
California students build Arroyo Bridge using collaborative robotics
Students at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture have designed and built a complex bridge in Los Angeles using a semi-robotic process that slashed construction waste. More
Cobe reveals design for Gothenburg University Library with facade curved like book pages
Danish architecture studio Cobe has won the competition for the new University of Gothenburg library, with a design that evokes the pages of a book being opened. More
Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Japan creates exhibition from dismantled old house at Venice Architecture Biennale
Japan has sent the dismantled remains of a 65-year-old house as its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale, staging an exhibition that explores the potential for material reuse. More
Love Hultén's MDLR-37 synthesiser takes the form of a fold-out wooden toolkit
Swedish audiovisual artist Love Hultén has combined nostalgic and new references to create his MDLR-37 synthesiser, which folds up similarly to an old-fashioned toolbox. More
Mounds of surplus soil form walls in Japanese house by ADX
Architect studio ADX made a feature of the soil excavated from the building site of this Minamisōma home, Soil House, created for a client who was displaced by the 2011 Japan earthquake. More
Design Museum curator picks five most innovative trainers from Sneakers Unboxed
The Design Museum's latest exhibition, Sneakers Unboxed, showcases the popular shoe as a design object. Curator Ligaya Salazar picks five exhibits that show how the trainer has been at the forefront of material and user innovation. More
Khaled El Mays' Transformers furniture collection evokes crouched robots
Lebanese designer Khaled El Mays has designed the Transformers collection, featuring a handmade sofa and armchairs that look like they could stand up and unfurl into giant creatures. More
VATRAA adds pink plaster walls in south London council house renovation
Architecture studio VATRAA has won a Don't Move, Improve! award with this London council house renovation featuring pink-toned plaster walls and an oversized window. More
BIG unveils design for Västerås Travel Center with curved timber ceiling
Architecture firm BIG has updated its plans for a transport hub designed for Swedish city Västerås, which will feature a building with a dramatically sweeping roof. More
Overlapping stone and concrete layers form Casa SAB by PSV Arquitectura
Argentinian firm PSV Arquitectura developed this grand concrete slab house in Córdoba in longitudinal strips so that all of its spaces would face north. More
Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition shows how algae can be used as air purifiers and protein source
EcoLogicStudio has designed the Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which invites visitors to taste freshly harvested algae and consider growing it in their own homes. More
MVRDV to transform Eindhoven's Heuvel shopping centre with glass "Music Mountain"
MVRDV will "break open" the Heuvel shopping centre in Eindhoven to connect it with the city, in plans that will also add a music venue topped with a climbable glass mountain. More
Echoes app by Cellule shows "the beauty of how the heart can sound"
UK design studio Cellule has worked with medical researchers to produce Echoes, an app that lets users hear the sound and rhythm of their heartbeat. More
Snøhetta references libraries for Oslo pop-up store A Better Place to Think
Architecture firm Snøhetta has created a library-informed respite from the digital world with A Better Place to Think, an Oslo pop-up shop for tablet brand reMarkable. More
Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Dutch Pavilion questions the premise of Venice Biennale with Who Is We? exhibit
In response to the Venice Architecture Biennale's theme How will we live together?, architect Afaina de Jong and artist Debra Solomon have answered with another question in the Dutch Pavilion: Who is we? More
Sebastian Cox creates subtle treehouse from scorched larch
Designer Sebastian Cox has designed a treehouse in the English countryside that features scorched larch cladding, a shingled roof and a balustrade of chestnut branches. More