Architecture
Architecture
MAD reveals designs for Yabuli Conference Centre in Chinese mountains
Construction has begun on a sinuous conference centre designed by MAD for the mountainous region of Yabuli in northeast China. More
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News
News
Tommy Hilfiger launches smart clothing range that tracks users' movements
Luxury clothes brand Tommy Hilfiger has released a range of "smart clothing", containing inbuilt Bluetooth chips that allow the item's movements to be tracked and users to be rewarded for wearing them. More
Architecture
Architecture
Europe's tallest skyscraper revealed as it nears completion
The RMJM-designed Lakhta Centre in St Petersburg for fossil-fuel producer Gazprom is Russia and Europe's tallest building – standing 462 metres high. More
Design
Design
Designers demand Design Museum remove works in outrage over arms industry event
Over 30 artists and designers have called for their work to be removed from the Design Museum's Hope to Nope exhibition, after the London gallery hosted an event for one of the world's biggest defence companies. More
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week, two Apple Stores made the news and Dezeen Awards longlists were announced
This week, the longlists for the inaugural Dezeen Awards were revealed and Foster + Partners overhauled its plans for an Apple Store on Federation Square in Melbourne. More
Architecture
Architecture
Michael Arad unveils Emanuel Nine Memorial to commemorate Charleston church shooting
Michael Arad, the architect behind New York's 9/11 Memorial, has revealed plans for a monument dedicated to the victims of a shooting massacre that took place at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church. More
Technology
Technology
NASA announces winners of competition to design 3D-printed habitat for Mars
NASA has selected the five winning designs in the latest stage of its 3D-printed Habitat competition, which include a community of modular pods made from the Martian surface, and a vertical egg-like container. More
Architecture
Architecture
BIG, MAD, MVRDV and OMA on shortlist to design Australia's tallest building
Supertall skyscrapers with rainbow facades and shaped like a mountain piercing a light-up cloud are on the shortlist for Southbank – a new tower in Melbourne, which if built would be Australia's tallest building. More
Architecture
Architecture
David Adjaye's Wakefield Market Hall to be demolished
Plans to demolish the Wakefield Market Hall buildings in northern England, built by British architect David Adjaye just 10 years ago, have been approved. More
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards 2018 design longlist announced
A table made from flexible concrete cloth, a garment that could allow humans to breathe underwater and tableware made from food waste are among 171 design projects that made the longlist for the inaugural Dezeen Awards. More
Architecture
Architecture
Herzog & de Meuron to overhaul Harvard GSD's Gund Hall
Architecture firms Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle have been enlisted to renovate and expand the main building at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, in order to support "groundbreaking collaborations" between its programmes. More
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards 2018 interiors longlist revealed
There are 207 interior-design projects on the longlist for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, including a revamp of a house built by Frank Gehry, a loft apartment in a former tank station and the offices of IKEA's creative team. More
Architecture
Architecture
Amsterdam opens new metro line with seven stations by Benthem Crouwel Architects
Benthem Crouwel Architects has designed seven new metro stations for the new Noord/Zuidlijn line through Amsterdam, which opened this week. More
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards
Dezeen Awards 2018 architecture longlist announced
A theatre for flying monks, a pink and green striped house and a tower complex built around a "plant-covered mountain" are among 218 architecture projects that made the longlist for the first Dezeen Awards. More
Architecture
Architecture
J Meejin Yoon to become first female dean of Cornell architecture school
New York's Cornell University has appointed alumnus J Meejin Yoon as the head of its College of Architecture, Art and Planning. More
Architecture
Architecture
Foster + Partners plans new Federation Square Apple Store to replace "Pizza Hut pagoda" design
Foster + Partners has completely overhauled its plans for an Apple Store in Melbourne's Federation Square, but critics claim it has "simply swapped a Pizza Hut pagoda for an oversized iPad". More
Technology
Technology
Downloadable files for 3D-printed guns to be made publicly accessible
Americans will be able to 3D-print their own guns next month, after a court ruled that blueprints for printable firearms could be made available online again. But their creator and distributor says this won't "break the dam" and cause mass weapon uptake. More
Architecture
Architecture
Plans for "pioneering" Portland wooden high-rise put on hold
Construction of a timber-framed high-rise building for Portland's Pearl District, which would have become one of the USA's tallest wooden structures, has been postponed indefinitely. More
Architecture
Architecture
Ingenhoven Architects and Architectus to build Sydney's tallest tower
Düsseldorf-based Ingenhoven Architects and Australian practice Architectus have won a competition to design a 79-storey skyscraper for Sydney, set to become the city's tallest building. More
Architecture
Architecture
Bennetts and AHMM design Facebook's new London headquarters
Bennetts Associates and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris are both designing buildings in London's King's Cross to house the offices of tech giant Facebook. More