Renzo Piano's new Columbia building | Goop pop-up store | Afrofuturist throne

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AAU Anastas adds stone vaulted gift shop to Crusaders monastery in Jerusalem

St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey in Abu Ghosh by AAU Anastas

Palestinian-based studio AAU Anastas has designed a flat stone-vaulted extension to a 12th century monastery built by the Crusaders in Jerusalem, to house a gift shop. More ›

 
 

Foster + Partners wins award for best architect's website

Foster + Partners has won top prize at the Archiboo Web Awards 2018, which celebrate architects and architecture companies with outstanding websites. More ›

 
 

Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop opens first UK pop-up store

Goop London pop-up by Fran Hickman

Goop – the lifestyle and wellness brand founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow – has opened its first pop-up store in London, which features California-inspired interiors designed by Fran Hickman. More ›

 
 

Lorenzo Vitturi repurposes Established & Sons furniture for sculptural installation

Lorenzo Vitturi repurposes Established & Sons furniture for sculptural installation

East London-based artist Lorenzo Vitturi deconstructed products from the Established & Sons collection, and reassembled them into disjointed sculptures, for an installation at London Design Festival. More ›

 
 

Mac Collins' afrofuturist throne references his Caribbean heritage

Mac Collins models afrofuturist chair on his Carribean heritage

Northumbria University graduate Mac Collins looked to his Caribbean heritage when conceiving this afrofuturist chair, which aims to empower its user. More ›

 
 

Pinar Yoldas creates designer babies based on characteristics of Greek gods and goddesses

Designer Babies by Pinar Yoldas

Designer and artist Pinar Yoldas has imagined nine designer babies based on the characteristics of hellenic deities as a reflection on human gene editing. More ›

 
 

Bermuda is a pop-up seawater purifier that uses light to remove salt

Pop-up seawater purifier designed for emergencies uses light to remove salt

Mexican designer Marco Antonio Barba Sánchez has won a James Dyson Award for inventing a low-cost seawater purifier, for castaways and people without access to drinking water. More ›

 
 

H&P Architects wraps perforated brick walls around Hanoi house Brick Cave

Two layers of perforated brickwork surround this two-bedroom family home in Hanoi by Vietnamese studio H&P Architects. More ›

 
 

Renzo Piano tops Columbia University's The Forum with staggered concrete auditorium

The Forum by Renzo Piano

Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his third building for Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus in Harlem, a project he describes as an "interesting experiment" in gentrification. More ›

 
 

Yield balances minimal and earthen materials in homeware collection

Products by Yield

Florida design studio Yield has launched a broad set of furniture and household goods, many of which are made in the US. More ›

 
 

Latest Dezeen Weekly features MVRDV's indoor theme park

The Imprint by MVRDV

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly features MVRDV's Imprint building near Seoul and BIG's design of one of the world's best restaurants. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

 
 

New York's Waterline Square skyscrapers climb in time-lapse movie

Waterline Square

Watch towers by Rafael Viñoly, Richard Meier and KPF rise in this time-lapse video, which shows that the Waterline Square development on Manhattan's Upper West Side is almost complete. More ›

 
 

Driade creates Moon Mission installation to prove it is "more than just a design brand"

Writer Gianluigi Ricuperati, Studio Nucleo's Piergiorgio Robino and Driade CEO Giuseppe Di Nuccio explain why they created a collection of 3D-printed furniture for the moon in this movie Dezeen produced for Driade. More ›

 
 

Puma Blue's Simpsons-esque music video explores feelings of depression

As Is music video by Puma Blue

Floating cigarettes and fish-headed jazz players feature in Puma Blue's surreal new music video for track As Is, which is directed by Alice Bloomfield. More ›

 
 

David Hockney creates iPad-designed stained-glass window for Westminster Abbey

David Hockney reveals iPad-designed stained-glass window in Westminster Abbey

London's Westminster Abbey has a new stained-glass window, designed by David Hockney on his iPad, to commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. More ›

 
 

Arney Fender Katsalidis completes Calgary's tallest skyscraper

Brookfield Place Calgary by Arney Fender Katsalidis

The tallest building in western Canada is now a 56-storey glazed skyscraper with rounded corners, designed by global firm Arney Fender Katsalidis. More ›