Deserted Japanese theme park | Lady Gaga's Super Bowl drones | Robot-built pavilion

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ETH Zurich students create robot-built pavilion with a skin of wooden shingles

ETH Zurich pavilion

This shingled timber pavilion was created by masters students on ETH Zurich's Digital Fabrication course, after developing robotic fabrication techniques to minimise the waste involved in its construction. More ›

 
 

Claesson Koivisto Rune expands Smaller Objects accessories collection

A carafe by Luca Nichetto and a candlestick by the late James Irvine  are among the new additions to Claesson Koivisto Rune's range of homeware and accessories, on show as part of Stockholm Design Week. More ›

 
 

Call for entries to Coloured Concrete Works Award 2017

Dezeen promotion: materials manufacturer Lanxess is inviting architects to submit entries to an award that recognises contemporary design using coloured concrete. More ›

 
 

Denise Scott Brown wins Jane Drew Prize 2017 for women in architecture

News: Denise Scott Brown wins Jane Drew Prize

Denise Scott Brown has been awarded this year's Jane Drew Prize for raising the profile of women in architecture, four years after her unsuccessful campaign to be retrospectively recognised for her role in her husband Robert Venturi's Pritzker Prize. More ›

 
 

Adam Kane adds gabled artist's studio and gallery to Australian home

Blackwood Studio by Adam Kane Architects

Architect Adam Kane has added a garage and painting studio  to a house in the Australian state of Victoria, which features pitched corrugated-metal roofs, cement walls and pared-back interiors. More ›

 
 

Job of the day: creative industries producer at V&A Museum of Design Dundee

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a producer at the V&A Museum of Design in Dundee – a new cultural attraction designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, scheduled to open in 2018. More ›

 
 

Jean Nouvel designs striped flooring collection for Bolon

Jean Nouvel has partnered with Bolon for the Swedish flooring brand's first collection designed by an architect, which launches at Stockholm Furniture Fair today. More ›

 
 

Arched chasms extend through Hangzhou office block by Julien De Smedt

Two massive voids cut diagonally through this office tower in Hangzhou, China, by JDS Architects  to create an arched pathway underneath and a stepped park on top. More ›

 
 

Jensen Architects converts San Francisco warehouse into arts centre with black and white facade

1275 Minnesota Street by Jensen Architects

American studio Jensen Architects aimed to preserve original design elements while transforming a sawtooth-roof industrial building into an arts hub with galleries and event space. More ›

 
 

Tech companies take legal action against Trump's immigration restrictions

Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are among the US technology companies that have filed a legal brief to fight president Donald Trump's attempts to limit immigration. More ›

 
 

University of Kansas architecture school extension features double-layered glass skin

Architizer: The Forum by Studio 804

A+Awards: next in our series of Architizer A+Award winners is Studio 804's glazed extension to the stone architecture school at the University of Kansas. More ›

 
 

Deserted Japanese theme park photographed just before demolition

The abandoned and overgrown landscape of Nara Dreamland, a theme park closed for over a decade, is revealed in this set of images by French photographer Romain Veillon. More ›

 
 

Lady Gaga's Super Bowl performance accompanied by 300 drones

Lady Gaga Super Bowl half-time performance

A swarm of illuminated drones staged an aerial routine above Lady Gaga's half-time show at the 51st Super Bowl. More ›

 
 

Bolon to unveil experimental new rug collection at Stockholm Design Week 2017

Bolon to launch new rug collection at Stockholm Design Week

In the next instalment from our Bolon at Heart video series, Bolon directors Marie and Annica Eklund reveal how the Swedish brand is expanding beyond vinyl flooring with a collection of rugs that incorporate other fibres. More ›

 
 

Calatrava's Greenwich Peninsula scheme threatens Foster-designed transport hub

The Twentieth Century Society is calling for a heritage listing to be applied to Foster + Partners' North Greenwich Interchange, which is threatened with demolition by Santiago Calatrava's recently unveiled £1 billion development. More ›

 
 

Call for entries to the Radical Innovation Award for innovative hotel design

Dezeen promotion: the Radical Innovation Award, which celebrates and encourages innovative ideas within the hotel  industry, is inviting designers, architects and entrepreneurs to submit their concepts. More ›

 
 

Generative design software will give designers "superpowers"

Carpace mask by MHOX

Generative design tools that produce optimum forms for products and buildings without human intervention are set to transform both the physical world and the role of the designer, according to software experts. More ›