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French Open tennis stadium by Marc Mimram has greenhouses built into all its stands

Marc Mimram Architecture & AssociƩs has incorporated greenhouses into all four of the stands of the Court Simonne Mathieu at Roland Garros, home of the French Open.

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Gustafson Porter + Bowman reveals Eiffel Tower parks redesign

British landscape architecture studio Gustafson Porter + Bowman are redesigning the approaches to the Eiffel Tower in Paris ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

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10 unmissable installations and exhibitions at the Venice Art Biennale 2019

With the 58th Venice Art Biennale now underway, design reporter Natashah Hitti picks out the exhibitions, pavilions and installations that are most likely to appeal to architects and designers, from giant hands to an artificial beach.

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Bjarke Ingels says a style is "like a straight jacket"

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels says he is proud that BIG buildings don't have an identifiable style, in the latest episode of new podcast Time Sensitive.

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Herzog & de Meuron's Tour Triangle set to be built in Paris after passing final legal hurdle

The Tour Triangle, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is poised to become the first skyscraper built in central Paris since 1973, after winning a lengthy court battle.

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Dezeen now has two million Instagram followers!

We've hit a huge social media milestone, two million followers on Instagram.

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Sam Jacob Studio replaces mirrors with artworks in DKUK salon in south London

People look at artworks rather than their own reflections at DKUK, a hair salon in south London designed by Sam Jacob Studio.

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Careers guide: Joseph Bennett describes his experience of the production design industry

Joseph Bennett designs 3D sets for film, fashion, advertising and events. He describes his working history as a production designer for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide.

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Philip Nitschke's 3D-printed "death pod" lets users die at the press of a button

Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has created a 3D-printed suicide machine that allows users to administer their own death in a matter of minutes.

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Amey Kandalgaonkar imagines home built into giant boulder

Architectural designer Amey Kandalgaonkar has created renderings of House Inside a Rock, a concept for a modernist concrete house built within a giant rock.

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Foster + Partners converts historic Washington DC library into Apple Store

Foster + Partners has collaborated with the Apple design team to transform a neoclassical building in the US capital into a sleek retail space with a skylit atrium, where events are held to "entertain and inspire the local people".

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Seven highlights from New York's WantedDesign festival

Wooden stools by Mexican design students and rock-like cabinets produced in rural Quebec are among the top creations at this year's WantedDesign show, as selected by Dezeen's US reporter Bridget Cogley.

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"It looks like a Beluga whale's fanny"

In this week's comments update, readers are poking fun at the Zaha Hadid-designed stadium in Qatar, which will host matches during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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Central Saint Martins launches "world's first" masters course in biodesign

London's Central Saint Martins (CSM) college has announced a new masters degree in Biodesign to promote sustainable innovation, which is set to start in September 2019.

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Sebastian Errazuriz ridicules Notre-Dame proposals by turning cathedral into rocket launchpad

Designer Sebastian Errazuriz has suggested turning Notre-Dame Cathedral into a space-rocket launchpad in an "act of creative one-upmanship" designed to stop architects producing more proposals.

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Alex P White pairs soft tones and raw textures in model New York apartment

American designer Alex P White has created a model unit for a high-end condominium building in Manhattan that features exposed concrete ceilings, grey plaster walls and vanilla-coloured decor.

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