Design

Walkable cities should be prioritised even by those who care about the environment, British architect Norman Foster has told the World Design Congress. Read more

Promotion: design festival Singapore Design Week has announced its return this September in a celebration of the city's design spirit and creativity. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Dutch company Pretty Plastic has produced tiles for facades and roofs using a notoriously hard-to-recycle material: PVC from post-consumer construction waste. Read more

Design firm Wendover has converted the former St John's Wood police station in northwest London into a block of nine rental apartments, organised around a central courtyard. Read more

The inflatable Ark Nova concert hall, created by sculptor Anish Kapoor and architect Arata Isozaki in 2013, has been transported from Japan to Switzerland for Lucerne Festival. Read more

Global interest in South Korean culture is helping Hyundai make more unusual cars, Hyundai Design Center head Simon Loasby tells Dezeen in this interview. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Norwegian design brand Volver worked with designer Kristine Five Melvær on a range of kaleidoscopic hand tufted rugs decorated with geometric patterns. Read more

Office Inainn has inserted Nikkakjøkken, a timber-framed restaurant, into the concrete and timber envelope of a barn in Valldal, Norway. Read more

A pared-back concrete showroom with an arched glass-brick ceiling sits next to a historic salon filled with collectible design at fashion brand Acne Studios' latest headquarters, designed together with Stockholm-based Halleroed. Read more

Dezeen has revealed the 192 projects longlisted for this year's Dezeen Awards design categories, including designs by Foster + Partners, Kvadrat and Pentagram. Read more

Material research studio Matter at Hand, founded by Assemble co-founder Lewis Jones, has created a prototype clay-based construction method named Poured Earth that emulates casting concrete. Read more

Promotion: Swiss furniture brand Seitz creates modern yet distinctive pieces for the home, aiming to uphold, yet reinvent traditional Swiss design. Read more

Technology brand Apple has unveiled the iPhone Air, which at 5.6 millimetres thick is the thinnest iPhone ever made by the company. Read more

British-American designer Yinka Ilori has created a facade installation and pop-up shop at the flagship of American department store Bloomingdale's in New York City, informed by multiple meanings of flowers. Read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an entirely wooden stadium in Fukushima designed by Japanese architecture studio Vuild. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Casalgrande Padana is a prolific producer of tiles. The following five nature-informed examples have been recently listed on our Showroom section. Read more

Massive pyramids, slides and a temple resembling a giant, fragmented stone have been captured at this year's Burning Man event in Nevada, USA, by photographer Gurpreet Chawla. Read more

Dezeen Jobs has reached a major milestone, with more than 100,000 jobseekers signed up, making it the most popular recruitment site for architects and designers worldwide. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: designer Rafa Ortega worked with Kriskadecor to adapt the Spanish brand's signature aluminium ceiling chains into a room divider system, adding decorative and acoustic elements. Read more

Curved panels of weathering steel swaddle this entrance to Monte Sant'Angelo Subway Station in Naples, completed by sculptor Anish Kapoor with London studio AL_A. Read more