As the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas got underway this week, BMW and Toyota revealed futuristic concept cars, a "cute" home robot became a reality and Lego launched a kit for teaching children how to code. More
Parks with terraced fountains and chunky concrete formations are among works by American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin featured in a show at the National Building Museum in Washington DC. More
The governor of New York has announced a major overhaul for John F Kennedy International Airport in Queens. More
In a leaked email, Patrik Schumacher claims that an open letter sent out by Zaha Hadid Architects in the aftermath of his controversial World Architecture Festival speech should never have been issued. More
Dezeen had its best-ever year in terms of visitors in 2016, with unique visitors up nearly 11 per cent to over 20 million and visits up 8.5 per cent to almost 50 million. More
Lego has announced a kit for building and programming robots, designed to encourage a younger generation to learn how to code, at this year's CES tech conference. More
Barcelona-based studios MX_SI and Mestres Wåge Arquitectes have won a competition to covert a 1930s silo into an art museum and cultural centre in Norway. More
Powerhouse Company has revealed its plans to convert a brutalist bunker in Eindhoven into high-rise housing. More
The organiser of Las Vegas technology show CES has branded the UK government's alleged lack of support for startups in the field a "source of embarrassment". More
US firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has completed a 530-metre skyscraper in Guangzhou, the second tallest in all of China and the fifth tallest in the world. More
The Thomas Heatherwick-designed double-decker buses will no longer be produced for London, because they cost too much. More
Architecture firms Skidmore Owings and Merrill and P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S have designed three residential skyscrapers that will add to the growing Los Angeles skyline. More
British architect David Adjaye is to become Sir David Adjaye after receiving a knighthood for services to architecture in the New Year's Honours 2017. More
A scheme to convert roadways in Phoenix into car-free and plant-filled corridors shaded by woven canopies has won first place in a design competition. More
Artist Anish Kapoor has got his hands on the "world's pinkest pink", which he is legally forbidden from using. More
A bridge suspended more than half a kilometre above a Chinese river has opened to the public – becoming the highest of its kind in the world. More
Amazon has filed a patent for huge flying warehouses that could house its fleet of delivery drones. More
This week on Dezeen, artist Tracey Emin controversially announced plans to move her studio from London to the Kent coast. More
Italian designer Lella Vignelli, who together with husband Massimo formed the "first couple of modern design", has died aged 82. More
Australian firm Bates Smart is to design a new Embassy of Australia for the US capital, replacing the building that the firm designed for the same purpose in 1964. More