As the UK closes its last coal-fired power station, conservation group Twentieth Century Society is running a campaign to preserve a set of cooling towers.
After the UK's last coal-fired power station closed last week, the Twentieth Century Society has selected seven projects for Dezeen that demonstrate how the under-threat cooling towers at these "cathedrals of industry" could be reused.
Designer Rachel Griffin discusses the "utopian qualities" of aluminium for Hydro's 100R exhibition, which is captured in this video produced by Dezeen for the brand.
Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former world war two German military base in the Netherlands, adding terraced housing and preserving a series of bunkers disguised as farmhouses.
Art and research organisation Metabolic Studio has showcased aspects of its Bending the River project, an infrastructure and art project designed to remediate water and land around the Los Angeles River.
Architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans to adapt a decommissioned power plant in Connecticut, USA, into a community centre on a site to be reimagined by landscape studio Scape.
Dezeen Showroom: Ukrainian architect and industrial designer Daria Zinovatnaya has collaborated with Spanish brand Gan on the chromatic Loko rug collection.
Dezeen Showroom: Japanese ceramics inspire the look of Spanish brand Dune Ceramica's Kit-Kat tiles, named for their resemblance to a famous chocolate bar.
