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Latest architecture and design news from Dezeen.
 
 
   
 
   
 

RIBA honours 20 of the world's best new buildings

A forest home for an art collector in Canada, and a Budapest metro station are among 20 buildings to receive RIBA Awards for International Excellence 2018 – and to be shortlisted for this year's RIBA International Prize. More ›

 
 

Elon Musk reveals plans to create bricks for low-cost housing

Elon Musk unveils an updated masterplan for car brand Tesla

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced plans to turn dirt excavated by his tunnel-digging enterprise The Boring Company into a cheap building material. More ›

 
 

Commemorative Karl Marx stamp celebrates economist's 200th birthday

Commemorative Karl Marx stamp celebrates economist's 200th birthday

The German postal service has released a postage stamp, designed by visual artist Thomas Mayfried, to commemorate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. More ›

 
 

MINI Living and Studiomama's Milan installation allowed "everyone to become an architect"

MINI Living - Built by All

In our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie, architect Oke Hauser and designer Nina Tolstrup explain how MINI's Milan design week installation let visitors design their own micro homes. More ›

 
 

Norm Architects uses earthen tones to connect family home to coastal setting in Denmark

Seaside Abode by Norm Architects

Danish practice Norm Architects has employed sand-coloured walls and earth-hued furnishings throughout this home near Copenhagen to echo the colour palette of the rugged coastal landscape. More ›

 
 

Giant augmented reality avatar of Bono appears on Es Devlin's U2 stage set

British designer Es Devlin and U2's creative director Willie Williams have transformed Bono into a giant avatar version of himself using augmented reality for the band's latest tour. More ›

 
 

Schemata Architects plays with materials and movable furniture at Tokyo record label offices

Schemata Architects plays with materials and movable furniture at Tokyo record-label offices

Pastel-coloured walls, industrial finishes and sliding furniture create a playful atmosphere inside this office for a Tokyo-based record label by Schemata Architects. More ›

 
 

Scandi and US designers team up for Sight Unseen's Norway x New York exhibition

Norway x New York

Designers from Norway and New York have worked together to create a collection of playful items, which will be shown during this month's NYCxDesign festival. More ›

 
 

GT2P's Manufactured Landscapes exhibition features rippled coffee table

Manufactured Landscapes by gt2P at Friedman Benda

Chilean collective GT2P has used a computer to delicately cut wavy forms based on the Andes mountains into the top of a wooden coffee table, currently on show at New York gallery Friedman Benda. More ›

 
 

Melania Trump designs logo for her Be Best children's initiative

First Lady of the United States Melania Trump personally designed the "clean-lined" logo that fronts her Be Best initiative, according to news reports. More ›

 
 

"A narcissist using essays as adverts to win corporate clients"

In this week's comments update, readers were united in their objection to Patrik Schumacher's suggestion that deregulated capitalism was the solution to the global housing crisis. More ›

 
 

Amanda Levete and Junya Ishigami among shortlist for Eiffel Tower overhaul

Four teams including architects Amanda Levete, Carlo Ratti and Junya Ishigami are vying to improve facilities at the Eiffel Tower, in time for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More ›

 
 

Bjarke Ingels joins WeWork as chief architect

Adam Neumann and Bjarke Ingels

Co-working company WeWork has announced Danish architect and BIG founder Bjarke Ingels will join the company in the role of chief architect. More ›

 
 

Facebook to move into Jean Nouvel's Barcelona skyscraper

News: Torre Agbar

The company hired by Facebook to combat fake news has rented eight floors of office space inside the Jean Nouvel-designed Torre Glòries skyscraper in Barcelona, Spain. More ›

 
 

Vitrocsa offers floor-to-ceiling glazing that slides open around corners

Dezeen promotion: Vitrocsa's Turnable Corner glazing system is made up of full-height windows that can slide around corners, allowing architects to create panoramic views. More ›

 
 

SOM converts century-old Chicago firehouse into Optimo hat factory

Optimo Hat Factory by SOM

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has paired blackened steel with warm-toned wood at a new headquarters for hat maker Optimo, created inside a historic firehouse in Chicago. More ›