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
BIG designs battery-metals plant, ships and underwater robots for undersea mining company
Architect BIG has designed a factory and a number of waterborne craft for The Metals Company, a mining firm aiming to develop sustainable ways of extracting metals required for electric batteries from the seabed. More
Chybik + Kristof brings light and life into brutalist Zvonařka Bus Terminal
Czech studio Chybik + Kristof has completed its redesign of Brno's Zvonařka Bus Terminal, a brutalist building that the architects fought to preserve in a self-initiated project. More
Helsinki calls for proposals to transform Makasiiniranta port into cultural precinct
The city of Helsinki has launched a competition to create a new waterfront cultural and leisure district on the South Harbour, which will include a design and architecture museum complex. More
Layer creates slim Beosound Emerge bookshelf speaker for Bang & Olufsen
Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer has designed a new speaker for Bang & Olufsen to deliver high-performance audio in a small and subtle format. More
Rhode Island School of Design space club projects get NASA backing
NASA has selected three projects from the Rhode Island School of Design's Space Design club for its development programmes, meaning the work could one day be tested in space. More
Pearson Lloyd attempts to shift stigma around stairlifts with Flow X
London studio Pearson Lloyd has called on designers to take on more medical and accessible design projects, as it revealed its design for an aesthetically appealing stairlift called Flow X. More
Degree Inclusive is a deodorant packaged for people with disabilities
Adaptive design studio Sour and creative agency Wunderman Thomson have developed accessible deodorant packaging for Unilever to make the product easier to use for people with limited mobility or visual impairments. More
Alexander Owen Architecture adds bold colour and curves to London home
London studio Alexander Owen Architecture drew on its clients' love of modernism and pop art to create a colourful kitchen and terrace at Amott Road in East Dulwich. More
Top five designs in Dezeen and LG Display's OLEDs Go! competition revealed
A lamp that unfolds into a screen, a TV that becomes a shelf and an OLED display that can be easily wheeled from room to room are among the finalists in Dezeen and LG Display's OLEDs Go! competition. More
Architect-led charity run HD5K returns with virtual 2021 event
The UK architecture industry's charity run HD5K is going virtual in 2021, calling on people to run or walk five kilometres in their neighbourhoods and raise money to fight motor neurone disease. More
Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house
Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create "a spacious void of shadows". More