An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award. More
Dezeen Day generated eight tonnes of carbon emissions, according to a "quick and dirty" environmental audit of the conference by Sophie Thomas. More
Skidmore Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to build a glass-and-ceramic office building for Disney's New York operations, called 4 Hudson Square. More
A "dream home" built on the "tightest of budgets" by architects McGonigle McGrath has been named by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the UK's best house of 2019. More
Thomas Heatherwick's Pier 55 park within New York's Hudson River has been renamed Little Island, as visuals and a video detailing the project's construction are released. More
Prada has signed a £42.9 million loan with banking group Crédit Agricole, with repayment terms conditional to meeting key targets around the sustainability of its products and operations. More
"Future scenario thinking" is a technique developed by theatre director Zoe Svendsen to imagine the cities of tomorrow. In an interview with Dezeen, she says architects could use it to design better urban futures. More
French architect Jean Nouvel has designed sprawling, stone-clad residences for architectural developer Uribe Schwarzkopf to echo its mountainous surroundings on the outskirts of Quito. More
Burning Man has acknowledged the carbon emissions it causes and called on attendees to consider alternatives to burning, as part of a plan to become carbon negative by 2030. More
In this week's comments update, readers are debating if Sheppard Robson building Europe's largest living wall is merely greenwashing. More
Fashion "flashbacks and fast-forwards" will be the theme of next year's major fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with exhibition design by Es Devlin. More
RIBA Royal Gold Medal winning architect Edward Cullinan, founder of Cullinan Studio, has passed away aged 88. More
Copenhagen-based research lab Space10 is to open a research and design lab next week, in the Dhan Mill gated compound in south Delhi that is home to emerging design studios, creatives and entrepreneurs. More
British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. More
Unpaid overtime, unfair pay and harassment in the workplace are just some of the reasons that architecture workers in the UK have formed a grassroots trade union for the first time. More
Two terraces will be carved into the swooping, ceramic-clad facade of this public library that architecture firm Snøhetta has designed for Charlotte, North Carolina. More
The Chicago Architecture Biennial has defended its sponsorship deals with petroleum giant BP and energy company Exelon, amid a growing backlash over arts sponsorship from companies that contribute to climate change. More
Dezeen promotion: a personalised flower generated by an algorithm has won the wallpaper category in the Samsung Mobile Design Competition. More
Facebook has launched a new branding for its subsidiary companies, which comprises an all-capital typeface that changes colour depending on the service offered. More
The American Institute of Architects has called for Donald Trump to reverse his "shortsighted decision" to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement amid the global climate crisis. More