Artificial insemination tool | Reconfigurable apartment | Desert hotel renderings

Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.

Architecture Interiors Design News Jobs Watch Store       The Boundary releases visuals of "pi-in-the-sky" luxury hotel in the Sonoran Desert British visualisation studio The Boundary has created a series of renderings depicting a "super luxury" hotel concept planned for a secret site in Arizona's Sonoran desert. More ›     Seeding Finger is a hand-shaped tool for artificial insemination Korean designer Koo Hyeonjeong has created a conceptual tool for women, which could allow them to impregnate themselves through the use of a hand-shaped pump. More ›     Reconfigurable apartment allows residents to transform their living spaces The next instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an experimental apartment by Swedish firm White Arkitekter, which can be reconfigured according to the needs of its residents. More ›     Developer to remove signage from site of Nazi torture cellars following backlash The developer of a luxury urban quarter in Hamburg has agreed to remove a sign designed "as a tribute to the 20s" after critics compared it to concentration-camp signage. More ›     Digital installation seemingly turns selfies into gravel Warsaw-based art collective Pangenerator has created an installation that invites observers to take a selfie, which is then projected onto a screen before vanishing into nothingness. More ›     Álvaro Siza combines geometric forms for white-concrete church in Brittany Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira has completed a church in the Brittany region of France, featuring a sculptural composition of intersecting concrete forms. More ›     EWE Studio's handcrafted Alquimia furniture and lighting is born of fire Design collective EWE Studio has used fire to treat the many different materials in this limited-edition collection of jet-black furniture and lava-like lighting. More ›     DesignAgency turns former strip club into boutique Toronto hotel Canadian studio DesignAgency has transformed a 19th-century building in Toronto, once home to a strip club, into a boutique hotel featuring patchwork flooring, patterned wallpaper and brass lighting. More ›     Nendo exploits acoustic properties of beechwood for transparent Bunaco speaker Nendo has designed a wireless speaker for Japanese brand Bunaco, using a thin strip of coiled beechwood trapped inside a transparent casing. More ›     Nick Deaver enlarges 1930s cottage in Austin with glass and metal additions Nick Deaver Architects has added a corrugated metal extension to the rear of a bungalow in Texas, along with a new dining area with floor-to-ceiling windows. More ›     Dorte Mandrup to wrap heritage centre around second-world-war bunker Danish architect Dorte Mandrup has planned a building on top of a second-world-war naval bunker, in a UNESCO World Heritage area on the German coast. More ›     Populous to build spherical music venues in Las Vegas and London Stadium specialist Populous is planning to build spherical music and entertainment venues for the Madison Square Garden Company, in Las Vegas and London. More ›     "Can modernism be explained without an architectural education?" In the 1970s, the Open University offered a course on the history of architecture and design. Architects can learn a lot from it, says Owen Hatherley. More ›     Uber builds and tests self-driving cars at engineering centre in Pittsburgh Assembly Design Studio has converted a large warehouse in Pittsburgh into a workspace for Uber where self-driving cars are engineered, built and tested. More ›       Follow us     Forward this newsletter to a friend You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Unsubscribe     Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise