$500-billion automated city | Stripy Swiss house | Germany's driverless bus

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Magnus Ström models gabled annex for Hampshire home on "rustic boutique hotel"

British studio Ström Architects designed this timber-clad annex to house a bar and games room for a home in England's New Forest he completed seven years ago. More ›

 
 

Saudi Arabia to invest $500 billion in fully automated city spanning three countries

Robots may outnumber humans in a new pioneering city billed by Saudi Arabia as "a new blueprint for sustainable life", which would be entirely powered by renewable energy, and served by driverless vehicles and vertical farms. More ›

 
 

Pavegen's floor tiles could power future cities with footsteps

The latest movie in our ongoing Dezeen x MINI Living series features floor tiles developed by London-based startup Pavegen to produce kinetic energy when stepped on. More ›

 
 

Germany's first driverless bus takes to the roads

Germany's first self-driving public bus has made its maiden journey on the roads of a rural town in Bavaria, taking locals from the train station to the town centre. More ›

 
 

People's Pavilion "has almost no ecological footprint" say designers

Bureau SLA and Overtreders W used only borrowed or recycled materials to create this Dutch Design Week pavilion, which was the venue for Dezeen's Good Design for a Bad World talk series. More ›

 
 

Dutch Invertuals exhibits designers' archives to show process behind products

Dutch Design Week: Fundamentals by Dutch Invertuals

Dutch Invertuals has invited 45 of the designers it has worked with over the past nine years to exhibit more than 800 objects from their archives for a show at Dutch Design Week. More ›

 
 

School extension by DSDHA features rough-edged timber cladding and outdoor learning spaces

This new building added to a school in the English town of Beaconsfield by London architecture office DSDHA flanks a tree-lined playground and is clad in waney-edged timber to give it a natural appearance. More ›

 
 

Foster reveals botanic sculpture garden for Florida's Norton Museum of Art

Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to surround its extension to the Norton Museum of Art in Florida's West Palm Beach with a subtropical garden, to provide "outdoor galleries" for sculptures. More ›

 
 

Swiss designers collaborate with Mexican palm weavers to create screens and lights

Casa Wabi installations at Design Week Mexico

Swiss designers Julie Richoz and Nicolas Le Moigne have used their residency at Casa Wabi in Mexico to produce a series of woven lighting and furniture pieces with the help of local artisans. More ›

 
 

Green and pink stripes add colour to curved walls of house in Switzerland

Davide Macullo Architects Swisshouse Rossa

The signature stripes of artist Daniel Buren cover the curved walls of this timber-framed house by architect Davide Macullo, which functions as a piece of public art in a picturesque Swiss valley. More ›

 
 

Amazon Key allows strangers to open your front door

Amazon Key

Online retail giant Amazon has launched a service that lets its delivery staff drop off packages inside a customer's home while they are out. More ›

 
 

Latest Dezeen Mail features the winning UK Holocaust memorial design

This week's Dezeen Mail includes David Adjaye and Ron Arad's winning design for the UK's National Holocaust Memorial in London and an opinion piece raising questions about sexism in architecture following the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail ›

 
 

Dining Toys tableware turns eating into a sensual activity

Dining Toys by Roxanne Brennen

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Roxanne Brennen has created a range of dining tools designed to encourage a way of eating that she claims helps to trigger the same brain activity as sexual foreplay. More ›