Architecture studio Sam Jacob Studio has refurbished a 1960s building at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, using playful architectural references and bright colours to add layers of "wit and delight" to the existing interiors. The...

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features plans to renovate the Foster + Partners-designed HSBC Tower in Canary Wharf, London. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Kohn Pedersen Fox aims to turn the office building into "one of...

Dezeen School Shows: a digital healthcare platform for managing chemotherapy at home is included in this school show by students at Loughborough University. Also included is a drill made from nylon that assists with DIY tasks and a refillable...

Mexican design studio Manufactura and New York studio BioMatters have created 3D-printed objects using a composite consisting mainly of shells from industrial lobstering byproducts in Maine. During a residency at Haystack Mountain School of...

Site constraints and local architecture guided the angular form of Mesh House, a copper-clad home that London studio Alison Brooks Architects has completed in Belsize Park. Characterised by recessed and projecting bays, the home\'s playful form...

A screen of bamboo shelters diners at the Nhà Tú Garden Restaurant in Vietnam, which has been completed by architecture studio Long Nguyen Design. Located in the city of Dong Nai, the restaurant stands on a stretch of green space that separates a...

Paris 2024 comes close to the limit of what is possible in terms of minimising construction for Olympic Games hosted in a single city, explains Populous\' François Clément in this Olympic Impact interview. Clément, who has been involved with the...

Dezeen Showroom: Canadian furniture company Allseating has launched an ergonomic office chair named Dart, which features horizontal stitching for additional back support. Intended to have a sleek appearance suited to a variety of meeting spaces,...

Italian football club AS Roma has unveiled the design concept for a stadium that is planned for the Pietralata area in Rome. Designed by architecture studio Populous, the stadium would be a permanent home for AS Roma, which has shared the Stadio...

Architecture studio Urb is planning to convert a 64-kilometre-long arterial road in Dubai into the "world\'s greenest highway", designed as the emirate\'s answer to New York City\'s High Line. Green Spine will replace the Sheikh Mohammad...

Northumbria University graduate Amelia Cook has taken home the PriestmanGoode award at this year\'s New Designers showcase for developing a food container that allows hikers to preserve and eat home-cooked meals in the wild. The Savour kit...

Architecture studio Sukchulmok has created the cone-shaped Chul-02 Cone Stool to showcase the "sharp and mechanical form of steel". The piece is composed of three connected components ? each featuring conical tops held up by pointed legs that can...

US studios WXY Architecture and Jerome Haferd Architecture are among four firms that have won a competition to design several cultural venues for historic Africatown in Alabama. The Africatown International Design Idea Competition, spearheaded by...

Local architecture studio Atelier l\'Abri has created a shed at a Montreal farmhouse with a galvanized steel and hemlock timber structure. Named Melba Pavilion, the 45-square-metre structure was designed as a workspace and storage for the...

Dezeen School Shows: a museum clad in tiles made from ceramics is included in Dezeen\'s latest school show by students at California Baptist University. Also featured is a care facility for people with Alzheimer\'s and an educational centre...

Architect Suchi Reddy has created an installation in a recently restored train station in Detroit that responds to the words spoken into microphones with colourful LED lights. Me + You consists of a circle of modules with microphones surrounded by...

Dezeen Showroom: Tokyo-based Studio Cohaku has designed Menow, a collection of round stools characterised by slitted, "wrinkle-free" upholstery. The Menow collection includes three sizes ? small, medium and large ? and is suitable for use in...

Brussels studio Madam Architectuur has renovated and extended a bungalow near Aalst, updating its exterior with bright red-painted timber that is "striking yet modest". Named Charlotte, the low-slung home was built on the outskirts of a nature...

To kick off our Olympic Impact series, Dezeen profiles the most architecturally notable venues of the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games ? where the major theme has been renovation and reuse. The city of Paris will be transformed into...

Today we launch Olympic Impact, a series investigating whether the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games can be the blueprint for sustainable major sporting events. Nat Barker sets out what to expect. In this series we will examine in detail...

Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Soldi Design has released a "bold and provocative" mirror shaped like a broken egg, created by founder Gianluca Soldi. O-voilà is characterised by a bulbous body available in three colours, interrupted by a large...

Keir Starmer\'s newly elected government has made big promises about increasing housing supply in England without properly explaining why it wants to do so, writes Peter Apps. Last week saw the UK\'s new government spell out its priorities in...

Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has completed a residential building in Taiwan that features a gridded facade filled with inverted-arch screens. Located on a former US military base in Taipei, the apartment block is intended to echo the...

Acts of mending and maintenance are the subject of the Fix: Care and Repair exhibition in Helsinki, Finland. Here, its curators share five works that shed light on a rarely celebrated topic. The Fix: Care and Repair exhibition brings together...

There is just one month left to enter our Start Something Powerful Competition, which calls for ideas that could have a powerful impact on how people live over the next 100 years. Enter now before the contest closes on 21 August. Announced earlier...