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Architect Danish Kurani has developed a prototype for a "connected" classroom, designed to enable expert teachers to remotely provide lessons to students in rural communities. Read more

New Zealand studio Bull O'Sullivan Architecture has perched a compact aluminium-clad chapel on a hillside overlooking the Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch. Read more

For our latest lookbook, we've collected hair salons that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional, including a salon with a galvanised-steel sound wall and one with a "dripping shampoo" ceiling. Read more

Australian designer Georgina Davies has used MDF to create a series of linear furnishings that challenges expectations of the basic building material. Read more

Bright yellow upholstery and formica pops against a 1970s colour palette inside this sandwich shop in Montreal, designed by local studio MRDK. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: a modular panelling system created with cork is among the projects from Istituto Europeo di Design. Read more

Exposed blockwork walls are contrasted by screens of lightweight steel and blackened timber at SKI House in Wānaka, New Zealand, created by local studio Roberts Gray Architects. Read more

Looking to up your kerb appeal? Here are nine examples of distinctive front doors from homes around the world that are guaranteed to make a good first impression. Read more

The latest US edition of Dezeen Agenda features president Donald Trump's proposal for a triumphal arch in Washington DC and Grafton Architects' first mass-timber building for the University of Arkansas.  Subscribe today! Read more

This week on Dezeen, the "hopeful and imaginative" Appleby Blue Almshouse social housing complex in London by local studio Witherford Watson Mann Architects won the 2025 Stirling Prize. Read more

Local art collective Xpan has created a store in Guadalajara lined with modular aluminium shelving that can be rearranged and shifted depending on the needs of the space. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: these lighting designs have recently been listed on our Showroom section. They range from a lamp for bedrooms that encourages healthy habits and a collection based on signals and beacons. Read more

Susan T Rodriguez has designed a revitalised recreational facility in Central Park, rebuilding a 1960s ice rink and pool and reconnecting the park's natural waterways in the centre of New York City. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: British company Ted Todd has updated its Project collection of engineered wood flooring with six new contemporary tones offered in thick extra-wide planks. Read more

Local clay and rubble from buildings razed during Apartheid were fired into bricks and fittings for the Rahmah Library in Cape Town, South Africa, completed by local studio The MAAK. Read more

Dutch Design Week kicks off in Eindhoven tomorrow. Ahead of northern Europe's biggest design festival, we have rounded up 10 installations and exhibitions to look out for during the city-wide event. Read more

Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite unveiled at London's Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a wood-lined diabetes health centre in Copenhagen created by Danish studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Read more

London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill combining co-living and hotel stays under the same roof. Read more

As part of Designers' Saturday festival in Oslo, curators Kirsten Visdal and Per Olav Sølvberg displayed an array of vintage and contemporary Nordic design objects in the home of artist Paul Hellsegg. Read more