Zaha Hadid Architects to design concert hall for Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. More
New York's Waterline Square skyscrapers climb in time-lapse movie
Watch towers by Rafael Viñoly, Richard Meier and KPF rise in this time-lapse video, which shows that the Waterline Square development on Manhattan's Upper West Side is almost complete. More
Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. More
Franklin Azzi Architecture converts Nantes warehouses into art school
A pair of former warehouses topped with saw-toothed roofs have been transformed into a school for fine arts by Franklin Azzi Architecture, in the French city of Nantes. More
Students build giant speaker and human-scale bird's nest in Studio in the Woods workshops
This movie by photographer Jim Stephenson offers a look behind the scenes at this year's Studio in the Woods, an annual architecture workshop that invites students to design and build wooden structures in a forest. More
Explore Amos Rex and its inaugural exhibition by TeamLab in 360-degree videos
Take a tour of the recently opened Amos Rex art museum by JKMM Architects and the opening exhibition by Japanese art collective TeamLab in this pair of 360-degree videos filmed by Dezeen in Helsinki. More
Los Angeles studios design five radical building concepts for P.O.D.System Architecture
From a spherical live-work complex to a high-rise cat tower, we look back at the five conceptual buildings created for adidas and Dezeen's P.O.D.System Architecture project. More
Coal Drops Yard designed to be "particular to here" says Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick explains his thinking behind the design of the soon-to-open Coal Drops Yard shopping centre, in this video filmed in King's Cross, London. More
V&A Dundee is "a conversation between nature and artefact" says Kengo Kuma
In this exclusive video interview, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma reflects on the relationship between his V&A Dundee museum building and the sea. More
3D-printing could enable people to build their own houses "at the touch of a button"
The latest installment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a plan to build multi-storey housing with 3D-printers, a technique that the project's architects claim will enable people to design and build their own houses quickly and easily. More
Safdie Architects' Qorner tower for Quito to feature "hillside of terraces"
Volumes stagger in and out to create planted balconies and overhangs at the edges of this residential tower that Moshe Safdie's architecture firm has revealed for Quito, Ecuador. More
Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades
Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. More
Bureau Spectacular creates high-rise architecture model that doubles as a cat tower
In our final P.O.D.System Architecture movie, architects Joanna Grant and Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular explain their playful high-rise architecture concept that also functions as furniture or a cat tower at different scales. More
Competition: win a three-night stay at Mexico's Verana hotel
In our latest competition, Dezeen is giving away a three-night stay at a boutique hotel in the Mexican jungle. More
Brooks + Scarpa's inflatable pavilion concept captures energy from lightning storms
Brooks + Scarpa principals Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa explain their concept for a public pavilion that could harness energy from lightning in our penultimate P.O.D.System Architecture movie. More
Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a proposal to construct rows of affordable housing on bridges above roads in Sydney. More
Standard Architecture proposes modular megastructure "for any context"
Standard Architecture co-founders Silvia Kuhle and Jeffrey Allsbrook explain their proposal for a modular megastructure comprising pathways and vaulted pods in our latest P.O.D.System Architecture movie. More
Chequered blue sports venue reinvigorates impoverished Mexico City neighbourhood
Mexican design studio All Arquitectura has created a vibrant football and basketball court for one of the poorest and most violent areas of Mexico City. More
Cadaval & Solà-Morales' Y-shaped Casa de la Roca hides in Mexican woodland
Architecture firm Cadaval & Solà-Morales has used fallen and dead trees found around this house in Mexico to imprint its concrete exterior, which is painted black to help disguise it amongst the forest. More
Design, Bitches envisions assortment of pavilions for new park concept
Design, Bitches co-founders Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph explain their idea to create a park that brings different activities together in unusual ways in our latest P.O.D.System Architecture movie. More