Shelters for stray cats | Trackless train | Oxford Street to be pedestrianised

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
 
   
 
   
 

SOM designs tapering skyscraper that would dwarf neighbouring Cheesegrater

SOM Architects Leadenhall

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater next door. More ›

 
 

House with "margin space" helps relocating city-dwellers adjust to life in rural Japan

To encourage the occupants of this house to socialise with their neighbours, Japanese architect Takanori Ineyama added a patio deck, a first-floor balcony and a large bay window to the building's facade. More ›

 
 

Milou Bergs' bicycle rack disappears into the pavement when not in use

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Milou Bergs has designed a bicycle rack that only pops-up when needed, as an alternative to the "eyesore" storage systems populating towns and cities. More ›

 
 

Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms and polka-dot installations come to New York City

Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwirner

New York's David Zwirner Gallery is showing concurrent exhibitions of work by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, including her iconic fully-mirrored rooms and spotty spaces at its Chelsea location. More ›

 
 

LA architects design shelters for homeless cats

A pouf packed with plants, a faceted flat-packed hideaway and a big ball of twine are among the shelters that Los Angeles-based architects and designers have created for the city's stray cats. More ›

 
 

Montreal declaration outlines design's responsibility for solving global problems

Montreal Design Declaration at Design Summit Meeting

A group of international organisations representing designers and architects have signed the first Montreal Design Declaration, setting out the sector's ambitions for tackling world issues. More ›

 
 

Giles Miller creates light-reflecting sculpture from 2,000 "pennies"

Aurora by Giles Miller at Northern Design Festival

Giles Miller suspended 2,000 metallic disks within a wooden lattice to create this light-reflecting sculpture, which was built for this year's Northern Design Festival in Newcastle. More ›

 
 

Plans unveiled to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street in 2018

Oxford Street Pedestrianised

The western section of London's main shopping street is to be transformed into a pedestrian zone filled with public art, it was announced today. More ›

 
 

Trackless, driverless "rail bus" takes to the roads in China

"World's first" driverless, trackless train is launched in China

A self-driving vehicle that is like a train, but which doesn't run on tracks, has made its first journey in Chinese city Zhuzhou. More ›

 
 

wHY proposes undulating park for cyclists and runners along New York's East River

East Midtown Greenway by wHY

US architecture firm wHY has developed a proposal for oscillating bicycle and pedestrian pathways along the Manhattan side of the East River. More ›

 
 

Yale architecture students create dwelling in Connecticut for the homeless

Jim Vlock First Year Building Project at Yale

Graduate students at Yale University have completed a prefabricated building in New Haven with two apartments that will be leased to tenants who are experiencing homelessness. More ›

 
 

Ocean Spiral is a conceptual city proposed beneath the surface of the ocean

Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video explores a proposal for an environmentally friendly underwater city, which Japanese engineering firm Shimizu Corporation claims could be a reality by 2030. More ›