Lack of private space in office interiors is constraining the creativity and productivity of workers, according to data from two new UK workplace surveys (+ slideshow). More
Renzo Piano's first residential tower in Manhattan, Pentagram's pared-back logo redesign for Mastercard and the 17 Le Corbusier projects added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (pictured) all feature in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail.
British designer Tom Dixon has teamed up with fashion brand Curve to open a retail space in Los Angeles' Culver City – his latest move to conquer the US. More
Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created experimental athletics apparel from the same material that contraceptives brand Skyn uses to make its condoms (+ movie). More
As housing crises grip several of our global cities, architects and designers are getting creative with ever smaller spaces.
We're celebrating their ingenuity with some of the best examples of micro homes and apartments from our archives, including petite cabins in the woods, an apartment that fits in just 13 square metres, and a narrow home designed to fill the gaps between buildings. See more micro homes on Dezeen »
Dutch office Studio Nauta created an ensemble of new and old gabled blocks for this family holiday home, which is secluded within a dense forest on the southern coastline of the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More
Architect Pernilla Ohrstedt has created a collection of sleek black tables for Dezeen's new offices, located in east London (+ slideshow). More
London architect Pernilla Ohrstedt has designed a light-filled, collaborative work environment for Dezeen's new canalside office in east London (+ slideshow). More
Architecture studio Penda has teamed up with engineering firm Arup to design a bridge made up of overlapping rings for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. More
Revellers at a Tasmanian music festival were invited to cool off inside this wooden pavilion filled with Aesop products, designed by architecture studio Partners Hill (+ movie). More
World Heritage Corb: we're revisiting some of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier's most important projects, to mark the addition of 17 of his buildings to UNESCO's World Heritage list. First up is his seaside holiday cabin, Cabanon, on the Côte d'Azur in France – a tiny building tied to some of the most important moments in the architect's life. More
Local studio Stephen Phillips Architects has completed a black duplex in San Francisco that aims to challenge the city's standard housing typologies (+ slideshow). More
Opinion: major landscape interventions like West 8's recently opened The Hills on Governors Island, along with planned improvements to transport links, will bolster New York's coherence as a multi-island metropolis says Alan G Brake. More
New York City's underground transport network is going to get more than 1,000 redesigned trains that will aim to increase capacity, and reduce overcrowding and delays (+ slideshow). More
Guests are invited to sleep under the stars in this open-air hotel, which is located 6,463 feet above sea level in the mountains of Graubünden (+ slideshow). More
French architect and Confluence Institute founder Odile Decq has called for entrepreneurial skills to be taught in architecture schools to help architects navigate the "broken" global economy. More
Dutch firm MVRDV has designed an entertainment complex featuring inverted facades and a huge blob of gold, which will be built in Seoul, South Korea, ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics (+ slideshow). More
This week's roundup of American houses from each of the 50 states brings us to Oregon, where a house built atop a pond and a home and studio nestled in a defunct warehouse are among our favourites (+ slideshow). More
Architecture studio Grimshaw has been selected to plan the expansion of London's Heathrow Airport as it pushes forward with its bid to build a third runway. More
Most Loved: Brazilian designer Humberto Campana explains why the Favela Chair is one the designs he is most proud of in the next movie from our exclusive video series. More