Trump wall prototypes | Floating Swedish sauna | 10 foods of the future

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Ortraum Architects builds forest home in Finland with a trapeze, a climbing wall and a hammock

This angular house in a forest near Helsinki is host to a number a child-friendly features including a climbing wall, gymnastic apparatus and a net covering a cut-out in one of the floors. More ›

 
 

Small Architecture Workshop's charred-timber sauna floats on a Swedish lake

Milan-based studio Small Architecture Workshop has built a sauna on a floating platform in Åmot, Sweden, which features a blackened-wood exterior and a large window that overlooks a lake.
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Mirjam de Bruijn turns household cleaning products into waterless capsules

Aiming to create a sustainable alternative to standard cleaning products, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Mirjam de Bruijn has condensed detergent, dish soap and shampoo into solid forms that are activated by water.  More ›

 
 

Concrete walls hide glazed courtyard at house in Buenos Aires

House in La Comarca by Anibal Bizzotto and Diego Cherbenco

A courtyard brings light into the centre of this board-marked concrete house in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, designed by architects Anibal Bizzotto and Diego Cherbenco. More ›

 
 

Trump wall prototypes pop up near US-Mexico border

Portions of eight proposed designs for the wall that President Donald Trump wants to construct along the US-Mexico border are to be tested over the coming months. More ›

 
 

"The architecture of the Americas is not white"

Taco Bell

The Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in Los Angeles show that arts and culture from south of the border have shaped an architectural identity for the region that is much more interesting than what's found in the Northeast US, says Aaron Betsky. More ›

 
 

GRT Architects creates New York office with millennial-pink kitchen and dark "nap room"

OS Offices by GRT Architects

New York studio GRT Architects has renovated spaces at the top of a 19th-century building in the city, creating an office for a UX design firm that looks more like a home than a workplace. More ›

 
 

Dezeen readers receive 20 per cent off tickets to The Salon Art + Design fair in New York

Dezeen promotion: The Salon Art + Design fair has announced the galleries confirmed for next month's event in New York, which will present work by designers including Zaha Hadid and Faye Toogood, and Dezeen readers get a discount on day passes. More ›

 
 

MP calls for pedestrianisation of Exhibition Road amid dispute over accident figures

A war of words has broken out over the "shared space" design of London's Exhibition Road, with local politicians at loggerheads over whether the layout has improved or worsened accident rates in the popular museum district. More ›

 
 

Creative Industries Federation implores UK government not to be "reckless" on immigration post-Brexit

Creative Industries Federation global talent report brexit immigration visas

The UK's flourishing creative industries could falter if the government fails to produce an improved immigration system when freedom of of movement ends, a new report has warned. More ›

 
 

"Drab, austere, forgettable and cheerlessly bright"

In this week's comments update, readers are debating whether Duggan Morris Architects was right to finish its new office building in this year's trendiest colour, millennial pink. More ›

 
 

A/O builds slanted black holiday home in Hudson Valley

Sleeve House by A/O

Designed and built by Actual/Office Architects, this vacation home in upstate New York consists of two nested volumes wrapped in angled screens made of blackened wood. More ›

 
 

10 sustainable foods of the future on show at Dutch Design Week

One of the big exhibitions at Dutch Design Week is an "embassy" exploring the future of food, in the face of depleting resources. Here are 10 suggestions for what we might consume in years to come, from saltwater carrots to insect sausages. More ›