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Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
 
   
 
   
 

Giles Miller creates textured facade for children's playhouse

Play space by Giles Miller

London designer Giles Miller has used hexagonal wooden tiles to cover the surface of this children's playhouse by cabin company Koto. More ›

 
 

John Pawson designs trophies for Fashion Awards 2017

John Pawson designed the trophies for this year's Fashion Awards, which are each made from a cylindrical block of Swarovski crystal with a coloured "thread" encased in the middle. More ›

 
 

Cross-laminated-timber housing in east London offers "the future of low carbon construction"

Work has been completed on a 10-storey carbon-neutral apartment complex in London's Dalston, which architecture firm Waugh Thistleton claims is the "world's largest cross-laminated timber building". More ›

 
 

Competition: win an Aram stool designed by Nendo for GAN

Dezeen has teamed up with New York design brand GAN to give away stools by Japanese studio Nendo, which are entwined in metal loops that increase in density towards the top. More ›

 
 

Joost van Bleiswijk designs furniture and lighting to look like his paintings

Joost van Bleiswijk designs furniture to look like two dimensional sketches

Joost van Bleiswijk used disjointed steel rods to create this collection of furniture and lighting, which is based on huge abstract paintings the designer created in his studio. More ›

 
 

Mirrored panels and stripy tiles cover walls of Spanish school by ABLM Arquitectos

Spanish studio ABLM Arquitectos used mirrored panels to create an "almost invisible" upper floor for this school in the city of Salamanca, but the lower storey covered in stripes of brightly coloured tiling. More ›

 
 

Vincent Dubourg's Vortex aluminium furniture goes on show in New York

Vincent Dubourg at Carpenters Workshop Gallery NYC

French artist Vincent Dubourg's metallic furniture pieces that appear to be frozen midway through exploding are being exhibited at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York City. More ›

 
 

Stirling Prize 2017 awarded to dRMM for "masterpiece of regeneration" at Hastings Pier

Waugh Thistleton Architects Dalston Work

Architecture firm dRMM has been awarded this year's RIBA Stirling Prize for its sensitive revival of a seaside pier in Hastings, England. More ›

 
 

StudioAC inserts plywood unit complete with dog bed into Toronto home

Sheridan Residence by StudioAC

A sleeping area for the family dog is the focal point of this house in Toronto, which Canadian architecture firm StudioAC renovated using a plywood insertion to add storage space. More ›

 
 

Nine architecture and urbanism projects set to transform Toronto

A host of large-scale developments have recently been announced for Toronto, joining many more proposed or underway in the city. Here are some of the most ambitious, including Canada's tallest building, an underground park and an entire new "future city". More ›

 
 

"Stop the silence culture, the architecture world is sexist"

Readers are embroiled in a sexism row in this week's comments update, following an opinion piece that drew parallels between attitudes towards women in architecture and the recent Harvey Weinstein scandal. More ›

 
 

Carney Logan Burke spends five years creating Wyoming retreat clad in cedar and steel

Fish Creek Compound by Carney Logan Burke Architects

This residence and nearby guest house for a principal of Carney Logan Burke Architects are meant to sensitively respond to their setting: a forested site that looks toward a verdant valley and towering peaks. More ›