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Koto's flexible prefab cabins are designed for "Nordic lifestyle"

Koto prefabricated cabins

Prefabicated housing startup Koto has launched a series of modular one- to four-bedroom cabins that can be customised with add-ons such as saunas and outdoor showers. More ›

 
 

"With Amos Rex, Helsinki shows you don't need to import a brand to get cultural prestige"

Amos Rex by JKMM Architects

Helsinki's new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn't the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. More ›

 
 

Architect denies plagiarising Kengo Kuma for Bangkok airport terminal design

Bangkok airport terminal by DBALP Consortium

Duangrit Bunnag has defended his competition-winning design for a new airport terminal in Bangkok, which detractors claim copies Kengo Kuma's work. More ›

 
 

Competition: win a WW Armchair by Hayche

WW Armchair by Hayche

The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win a WW Armchair, part of the Colour Series created by Hayche and Brighton-based Studio Makgill. More ›

 
 

Catssup hacks existing furniture to create vertical cat playground

Catssup by Studio Ryte

Studio Ryte's Catssup collection can be attached to shelves or furniture to provide a world for cats to explore without compromising the human living space. More ›

 
 

Nike adapts super-fast marathon shoe for everyday wear

Nike has applied its signature ZoomX foam to a new running shoe, which the brand describes as its "fastest-ever training product". More ›

 
 

Katsutoshi Sasaki's minimalist home contrasts a dark exterior with a light interior

Tnoie by Katsutoshi Sasaki

Japanese architect Katsutoshi Sasaki has built himself a new family home, featuring a dark-painted facade of red cedar and a bright, airy interior. More ›

 
 

Jamie Bush mixes custom designs and "vintage finds" in San Francisco Residence

San Francisco Residence by Jamie Bush

Los Angeles architect Jamie Bush has overhauled this house in San Francisco with an eclectic array of furniture and items, to make it look like a collection amassed over time. More ›

 
 

BIG architects' mirrored orb among installation highlights at Burning Man 2018

Instagram images confirm that BIG's Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange have inflated the huge reflective sphere they crowdfunded for this year's Burning Man festival, which is well underway in the Nevada desert. More ›

 
 

Architectural imagery pioneer Alan Davidson dies

Architectural imagery pioneer Alan Davidson dies

Scottish architectural visualiser Alan Davidson, who pioneered the use of computers to create realistic digital images of buildings, has died aged 58. More ›

 
 

Latest Dezeen Weekly features a hillside home and David Chipperfield's Edinburgh concert hall

Peconic House by Mapos Studio

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly features a hillside house in the Hamptons and David Chipperfield Architects' proposed new home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

 
 

Vast grid of filter towers proposed across Delhi to combat toxic smog

Smog Project by Znera Space

Dubai-based architecture studio Znera has developed a concept for a network of 100-metre high towers that would absorb smog and clean Delhi's choking air. More ›

 
 

"By failing to represent diversity in CGIs, we are normalising whiteness and othering everything else"

It's inexcusable for architects to create CGIs that don't reflect the social demographic of the area they are designing for, says Margaret Ravenscroft. More ›

 
 

Material trio forms windowless front of UABI's Alpha House in Brazil

Alpha House by UABI

Three rectangular volumes of concrete, wood and stone face the street from this "brutal integrated loft" in Brazil, by local architecture firm UABI. More ›