BIG completes Lego House | Basketball court mural | Libeskind Holocaust memorial

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Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack

Haptic and Nordic Office of Architecture have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. More ›

 
 

BIG completes Lego visitor centre shaped like a stack of building blocks

Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has unveiled its new visitor centre for toy company Lego – a stack of huge building blocks, featuring brightly coloured patios that are home to a submarine, a shark and a camel. More ›

 
 

WOHA launch new homeware brand WOHAbeing at Maison&Objet 2017

WOHAbeing launched at Maison&Objet 2017

WOHA co-founders Richard Hassel and Wong Mun Summ explain why they have launched a new homeware brand in this movie, which Dezeen filmed for the Singapore-based architecture studio at Maison&Objet in Paris. More ›

 
 

Belgian basketball court refreshed with mural based on colourful toy blocks

Hypercourt basketball court by Katrien Vanderlinden

Artist Katrien Vanderlinden has painted colourful shapes inspired by toy bricks onto a basketball court in the Belgian city of Aalst. More ›

 
 

Latticed shell of SOM's Beijing tower is based on traditional Chinese paper lanterns

The tallest of three office towers that Skidmore Owings & Merrill  has completed in Beijing features a faceted exoskeleton, inspired by the patterns created by the folds on paper lanterns. More ›

 
 

Deborah Berke Partners transforms historic insane asylum into boutique hotel

Hotel Henry by Deborah Berke Partners

Guests can stay overnight in former patients' rooms at this late 19th-century building constructed as a mental hospital, which New York studio Deborah Berke Partners has partially restored and redesigned as a hotel. More ›

 
 

Rafael Viñoly's 125 Greenwich Street skyscraper to rise in Downtown Manhattan

125 Greenwich Street by Rafael Viñoly

New details and interior renderings of Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly's latest residential skyscraper for New York City have been released. More ›

 
 

"Seoullo is no High Line, but it is of equal importance"

MVRDV's plant-covered walkway in Seoul may look like a low-budget version of the High Line, but it's much more than that – it's the sign of a new frontier in city-making, says new Dezeen columnist Gerard Reinmuth. More ›

 
 

MVRDV's "Seoul High Line" captured in new photographs

Four months after MVRDV revealed its plant-covered walkway on a former elevated highway in Seoul, photographer Jim Stephenson visited the project to see how it is settling into the city. More ›

 
 

Studio Libeskind completes Canada's first Holocaust monument in Ottawa

National Holocaust Monument Ottawa by Studio Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind's architecture firm has finished work on the National Holocaust Monument in the Canadian capital, formed from tall concrete walls laid out like a warped Star of David. More ›

 
 

Uniqlo launches collection celebrating the careers of Ray and Charles Eames

Multicoloured slippers and T-shirts decorated with Wire chair prints feature in Uniqlo's new collection, which is dedicated to American design couple Charles and Ray Eames. More ›

 
 

"Can designers save the world?"

Ahead of the launch of our Good Design for a Bad World initiative, Dezeen editor-in chief Marcus Fairs asks, can designers make a difference when it comes to global challenges like climate change, terrorism and political shocks? More ›

 
 

Falling number of students studying design "not sustainable" for UK economy, Design Council warns

The UK's Design Council has weighed in to the debate about the declining number of students taking creative subjects, describing the situation as "not sustainable for design businesses or the UK economy". More ›