This week David Adjaye won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal
This week on Dezeen, British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye was named the 2021 recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, while this year's Stirling Prize was cancelled. More
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This week, the EU made plans for a new Bauhaus after coronavirus
This week on Dezeen, the European Union unveiled plans to fund a Bauhaus-style design school as part of a €750 billion coronavirus recovery scheme. More
This week British designer Terence Conran passed away
This week on Dezeen, Habitat and Design Museum founder Terence Conran passed away and London Design Festival took place. More
This week, we unveiled the Dezeen Awards 2020 shortlists
This week on Dezeen, we revealed the architecture, interiors and design projects shortlisted for Dezeen Awards, as well as the studio shortlists. More
This week, Richard Rogers announced his retirement
This week on Dezeen, high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers stepped down from his studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners after 43 years. More
This week, Rolls-Royce had a rebrand and NASA's Mars mission got a logo
This week on Dezeen, design studio House of van Schneider unveiled the logo for NASA's robotic rover and Pentagram gave the Rolls-Royce visual identity a makeover. More
This week, architects designed innovative public toilets for Tokyo
This week on Dezeen, we featured three unusual restrooms designed for the Tokyo Toilet project, including Shigeru Ban's colourful, transparent design. More
This week, we unveiled the longlists for Dezeen Awards 2020
This week on Dezeen, we revealed the longlisted architecture, interiors and design projects that are in line to win this year's Dezeen Awards, as well as the studios producing the best work. More
This week the UK government announced "automatic" permissions as part of planning reforms
This week on Dezeen, the UK government came under fire as it announced its plans to deregulate and automatically grant planning permission for housing in England. More
This week, architects criticised Autodesk's BIM software
This week on Dezeen, a group of 17 of the UK's leading architecture studios wrote a letter to American software maker Autodesk criticising the cost and lack of development of its Revit application. More
This week, Foster + Partners faced calls to drop an airport project as Apple pledged to go carbon neutral
This week on Dezeen, climate activists pressured Foster + Partners to pull out of a private airport project while tech company Apple committed to going carbon neutral by 2030. More
This week, Eva Franch i Gilabert was dismissed as AA director
This week on Dezeen, we broke the news that Eva Franch i Gilabert had been fired as the director of London's Architectural Association. More
This week, Virtual Design Festival came to an end
This week on Dezeen, we rounded up the highlights from Virtual Design Festival as the programme of events drew to a close, including eight ways VDF set the agenda for architecture and design. More
This week, Milton Glaser passed away
This week on Dezeen, we looked back at Milton Glaser's most interesting creations following the graphic designer's death and looked forward to a house designed to ride out the next global crisis in. More
This week, Kengo Kuma designed a chicken coop
This week on Dezeen, Kengo Kuma's studio designed a blackened-wood chicken coop in Mexico, while Airbnb's co-founder declared that "travel as we knew it is over". More
This week, designers heralded a sustainable future
This week on Dezeen, Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch predicted we'll have pollution-eliminating biofabricated materials with the decade, and Arrival launched an electric bus. More
This week, architects and designers responded to racial inequality
The week on Dezeen, graffiti artist Banksy sketched a memorial to slavery, architects and designers created a public Google Doc to promote black-owned studios and Michael Ford warned architects away from designing prisons. More
This week, creatives responded to racial inequality
This week on Dezeen, international creatives rallied in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and readers remembered the work of artist Christo, who passed away. More
This week, Adidas released a face mask and designers were accused of "coronagrifting"
This week on Dezeen, Adidas released a face mask, Waugh Thistleton Architects proposed creating mobile vaccination centres in shipping containers and designers were accused of "coronagrifting". More
This week, Dezeen interviewed Alison Brooks about post-coronavirus housing
This week on Dezeen, we spoke to architect Alison Brooks about how housing design should change after coronavirus and interviewed Killing Eve's set decorator about what it takes to dress a cult TV classic. More