Dezeen design

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

Design studio Symbolplus has renovated its office in Tokyo, using earthen plaster and delicate Japanese paper to complement the existing building. Read more

The Appleby Blue Almshouse social housing complex in London, designed by local studio Witherford Watson Mann Architects, has won this year's RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building. Read more

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a colourful modular playground at a primary school in China. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Read more

Danish architecture studio BIG and New York studio Rockwell Group have completed a student centre at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA made of a cluster of mass timber volumes that ascend up the building's sloped site. Read more

US president Donald Trump has held a briefing on a proposed classical-style triumphal arch that may be installed in Washington DC as part of the celebrations to mark America's 250th birthday in 2026. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: Australian design brand Bankston Architectural has published a selection of its latest door knobs, pulls and handles on Dezeen Showroom. Read more

An exposed concrete-framed extension frames views across a garden and sunken studio at this Victorian townhouse in Hampstead, converted into apartments by local architecture studio Pinzauer. Read more

Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans for an interfaith complex on a hillside near Tirana, Albania, which will have a cluster of pavilions that celebrate different religions. Read more

People have long searched for ways to reduce the time it takes to construct buildings but instead we should be trying to slow architecture down, writes Phineas Harper. Read more

In a bid to reimagine "unpleasant and seemingly worthless" waste, Central Saint Martins graduate Olivia Gino has transformed cigarette butts into a shearling-style hat. Read more

Some of Johannesburg's most promising young designers joined forces for an exhibition at Design Week South Africa, using locally found and discarded materials to rewrite the narrative about their city. Read more

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have created a building material where rammed earth is encased in permanent cardboard formwork, eliminating the need for cement. Read more

Architecture studio 11 x 17 had to leave historic details intact when converting a restaurant in a mixed-use building in Denver, Colorado, into a gallery space for the Architectural League of New York. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: an installation influenced by Virginia Woolf's iconic essay A Room of One's Own is among the projects from HEAD – Geneva School of Art and Design. Read more