Design

Massachusetts-based designer and professor Iman S Fayyad has created a shelter from standard sheets of plywood, moulding it and fastening it with straps to form a "collective space" that is easy to assemble for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: from cork flooring to materials made from recycled plastic, the following surfaces are among those recently published on Dezeen Showroom. Read more

US president Donald Trump has announced that there will be a 30 per cent tariff on upholstered furniture being imported to the USA from the start of October. Read more

British architecture studio Medium has completed its renovation of Hearth House, a 1950s country home in Surrey, bringing clarity to a series of hotchpotch extensions. Read more

This year's Seoul Architecture Biennale aims to directly engage the public rather than replicate the "echo chamber" of other architecture festivals, says the event's general director Thomas Heatherwick in this exclusive interview. Read more

While big brands largely steered clear of major launches at this year's London Design Festival, the next generation was out in force. Below, we meet some of the most promising young furniture and lighting designers coming out of the UK. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: designer Domenico Orefice worked with Italian brand Ceramiche Keope to create this range of tiles that combines terracotta, contemporary aesthetics and Milanese architecture. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a collection of reflective cabins designed by prefabricated housing company ÖÖD for a remote hotel on Oregon's Rogue River. Read more

Eighteen leading architects and designers met this week to decide the winners of Dezeen Awards 2025, in partnership with Bentley, who will be revealed at the Dezeen Awards 2025 party in November. Read more

British designer Terence Woodgate has created a collection of carbon-fibre furniture for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, featuring super-slim forms that lend the pieces a lightweight appearance. Read more

International architecture practice OF Studio has created a brutalist concrete house with a cantilevered terrace and sloped foundations shaped by its site on a mountainside in Mendoza, Argentina. Read more

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features renderings for a UFC stadium set to be built on the White House lawn. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Read more

Local firms Good City Studio and Hexagon Studio Architects have converted the main turbine hall of a historic Philadelphia power plant into Ballers, a sports club that includes indoor pickleball, soccer and squash courts. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: a community space for Indigenous people to celebrate their culture is among the projects from students at Mount Royal University. Read more

US architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed a skyscraper clad in glass on top of a restored 1899 train station in Boston, USA, the "busiest transit hub in New England". Read more

Japanese studio SANAA has reached completion on its largest cultural project to date, Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan. Read more

A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended above a construction site during excavation works for the upcoming 50 Fenchurch Street skyscraper in London, designed by architecture studio Eric Parry Architects. Read more

Making clothes using living organisms is fundamentally changing how Iris van Herpen thinks about materials, the Dutch fashion designer tells Dezeen in this interview. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Danish homeware brand Vipp has added to its family of Swivel chairs, which have a classic modernist aesthetic that combines aluminium and leather. Read more

Rumours of the metaverse's demise are greatly exaggerated – particularly when it comes to designing virtual buildings, writes Sarah Housley. Read more