Highlights
Highlights
Karim Rashid suffers "crazy" ordeal trying to enter the US
New York-based designer Karim Rashid has revealed that he was stopped and held by US Border Control at JFK airport yesterday. More
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Architecture
Architecture
BIG unveils yin-and-yang-shaped Panda House for Copenhagen Zoo
Giant pandas due to move to Copenhagen Zoo will make their home in a circular indoor-outdoor enclosure designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. More
Architecture
Architecture
Studio Libeskind to build twisted garden tower in Toulouse
American architect Daniel Libeskind's firm has been selected to create a 150-metre-high tower covered in trees and plants in the heart of Toulouse's business district. More
Landscape
Landscape
Heatherwick's Pier 55 park for New York now unlikely to go ahead
Plans to construct a Thomas Heatherwick-designed park and events venue jutting out over New York's Hudson River have hit a major bump after a federal court vacated the project's permit. More
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week, supertall skyscraper proposals for Manhattan and an orbiting asteroid were unveiled
This week saw the reveal of a Manhattan tower by Zaha Hadid Architects for the family of Donald Trump's son-in-law and a proposal to suspend the world's tallest skyscraper from an asteroid. More
Architecture
Architecture
MVRDV unveils pair of stone towers for The Hague topped with "crown of terraces"
MVRDV has revealed its design for a pair of mixed-use towers in The Hague, which will feature natural stone facades that stagger into wooden outdoor spaces on top. More
Architecture
Architecture
Zaha Hadid Architects unveils 666 Fifth Avenue skyscraper for Kushner Companies
A supertall skyscraper, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and developed by the family of Donald Trump's son-in-law, has been proposed for Midtown Manhattan. More
Design
Design
No-To-Scale imagines Trump's wall as a 1,954-mile-long dinner table
Malaysian design office No-To-Scale Studio has issued a satirical proposal to President Trump, suggesting a radical means of representing the US-Mexico border: a 1,954 mile-long dining table. More
Design
Design
Replica of artefact destroyed by ISIS announced as London's next Fourth Plinth installation
The next sculpture to be erected on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square will be a winged bull by artist Michael Rakowitz, which is based on an ancient Iraqi artefact destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS. More
Architecture
Architecture
Denmark to get its first purpose-built architecture school
A trio of Danish architects has won a competition to design Denmark's first new-build architecture school, a sprawling campus on the outskirts of Aarhus. More
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen
This week, Dubai got a new building by OMA and the city's Frame tower edged closer to completion
This week on Dezeen, OMA completed its first project in Dubai while the city's controversial Dubai Frame neared completion despite an ongoing lawsuit. More
News
News
Trump pledges $2 billion to Mexico border wall in budget proposal
US President Donald Trump's first budget plan includes a sizeable downpayment on his promised wall along the country's southern border with Mexico. More
Architecture
Architecture
London's "undervalued" architecture sector worth £1.7 billion to UK economy
Politicians have failed to grasp the value of London's booming architecture industry, which is worth more than the city's industrial design, graphics and fashion sectors combined and growing almost twice as fast, according to a new report by the mayor's office. More
Design
Design
Sebastian Wrong returns to Established & Sons as design director
Sebastian Wrong has returned to the role of design director at Established & Sons, five years after leaving the company to focus on his own ventures. More
Architecture
Architecture
OMA's first project in Dubai is a cultural centre with moving eight-metre-high walls
OMA has used sprayed concrete, polycarbonate and movable walls to transform four warehouses on Dubai's Alserkal Avenue into a cultural centre. More
News
News
Dubai Frame nears completion despite architect's claims of copyright breach
The Dubai Frame is due to open later this year – even though an ongoing lawsuit filed by its architect, Fernando Donis, alleges the design is stolen. More
Residential
Residential
SHoP Architects' wooden skyscraper for New York gets the chop
The developer behind plans for New York's tallest timber-framed building, designed by SHoP Architects, has axed the project. More
Architecture
Architecture
One Bayfront Plaza by KPF set to become Miami's joint-tallest building
International architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has revealed plans for a supertall skyscraper in Miami, which will match Foster + Partners' twin towers at the city's maximum height limit. More
Architecture
Architecture
High Line Nine galleries to surround Zaha Hadid's New York condos
Portions of Zaha Hadid's residential building in New York are set to become art galleries, while more exhibition spaces designed by Studio MDA will also be created underneath the adjacent High Line elevated park. More
Architecture
Architecture
Foster + Partners to create a pair of river bridges in southeast England
Foster + Partners has been selected to create two new bridges across a river in Suffolk, England, which will be divided up into strands to offer separate routes for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists. More