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Survey of top architecture firms reveals "quite shocking" lack of gender diversity at senior levels

Just three of the world's 100 biggest architecture firms are headed by women and only two have management teams that are more than 50 per cent female, a survey by Dezeen has revealed. More ›

 
 

Wild robots could replace vanishing species, says Robotanica curator

Robots could be released into the countryside to help restore damaged ecosystems, according to the curator of an exhibition held at Dutch Design Week last month. More ›

 
 

Good design is about clean air and water, not a Louis Vuitton bag, says Daan Roosegaarde

Daan Roosegaard design should be about clean air and clean water

Daan Roosegaarde has called on designers to shift focus away from designing luxury items and instead to tackle the problems facing the world such as pollution. More ›

 
 

Super Local uses waste glass to produce sustainable terrazzo homeware collection

Bottle Up by Super Local

Discarded glass is transformed into terrazzo to create this range of furniture and objects, which Dutch studio Super Local designed in collaboration with Zanzibari craftspeople. More ›

 
 

Watch Will Alsop and John Marx talk about performative architecture live at World Architecture Festival 2017

Will Alsop portrait

Tune in to hear British architect Will Alsop and American architect John Marx in the first talk on on day two of World Architecture Festival 2017 in Berlin. More ›

 
 

Soil-based render creates pink walls for houses built by Taller Hector Barroso in a Mexican forest

Taller Hector Barroso uses clay render to help weekend homes blend in with their forest setting

To help this cluster of houses blend into their setting in a Mexican forest, architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso chose to cover the walls in a render made using local soil. More ›

 
 

Masterplan unveiled for Downtown Houston in wake of Hurricane Harvey

Plan Downtown Houston by Downtown District

Houston has launched a 20-year plan to overhaul its Downtown business district, after the Texas city's urban design was heavily criticised following catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. More ›

 
 

William Kaven proposes Portland's tallest skyscrapers at US Postal Office site

US Postal Office building by William Kaven

Portland-based firm William Kaven Architecture has put forward a scheme to redevelop the soon-to-be demolished US postal building in the Oregon city, including a pair of towers built alongside a high-speed rail system. More ›

 
 

Bureau V's MINI Living Urban Cabin aims to "start a conversation about immigration"

MINI Living Urban Cabin in New York by Bureau V

New York architect Peter Zuspan explains how his studio Bureau V's colourful additions to the MINI Living Urban Cabin in New York reflect the city's large immigrant population in our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video. More ›

 
 

Best architecture of 2017 revealed at day one of World Architecture Festival

A huge smile-shaped structure in London and a study centre in the Philippines are among today's category winners at the World Architecture Festival 2017 awards. More ›

 
 

Coffee-drinking customs influence Samanรก furniture and homeware range

Container and coffeeware by Samaná

Designers from Mexico and Colombia have collaborated on a set of objects, created to facilitate coffee-drinking customs from the two countries. More ›

 
 

Top interiors of the year revealed at day one of Inside festival 2017

Airbnb's Dublin headquarters in a former warehouse and a high-rise hospital in Montreal are among the first category winners from this year's Inside festival awards. More ›

 
 

Watch Matthias Kohler speak about robotic construction live from World Architecture Festival 2017

Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d'Andrea

Matthias Kohler of Gramazio Kohler wraps up the first day of talks at World Architecture Festival 2017 in Berlin with his talk about the effect of robotics on the architecture and construction industries. More ›

 
 

Design Museum showcases 14 rare sports cars in Ferrari retrospective

An exhibition has opened at London's Design Museum celebrating 70 years of Ferrari design, from the brand's first vehicle, to the Formula One race car that Michael Schumacher drove to victory in 2000. More ›

 
 

David Adjaye's red library and events complex in Florida wins approval

Winter Park by David Adjaye

British architect David Adjaye's plans to create a "micro village" of red cultural buildings in Florida's Winter Park have been granted planning permission. More ›