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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

Landscape architect Kongjian Yu, the founder of Chinese studio Turenscape, and three others have died in a plane crash in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands while reportedly making a documentary about his sponge city model. Read more

Plans have been unveiled by London-based architecture studio Jestico + Whiles to revitalise Alison and Peter Smithson's 1950s Smithdon High School in Norfolk, UK. Read more

Designer Ethan Akiyama Poh has won Dezeen and Bentley's Radical Renewal Competition with a concept that reimagines architect Kenzo Tange's disused post-war gymnasium, currently facing demolition, as a thriving civic destination. Read more

Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone. Read more

Promotion: the slender Fusion thin bricks by brick manufacturer Acme Brick lend a pearlescent quality to the facades of this office building in Texas, designed by US studio An.onymous. Read more

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed a sculptural addition to the home of St Louis Symphony Orchestra in St Louis, USA, while revamping historical interiors and creating a public-facing plaza. Read more

Austin-based startup Blackdot has developed an AI-powered tattoo device it says is faster, safer, and less painful than a human-made tattoo. Read more

Promotion: the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) has launched the Aral School, a new ecological education programme open to applications until 5 October. Read more