Stepped, pastel-pink seating spills out from inside the OBA Next Lab library and community space in Amsterdam, designed by Dutch architecture practices Matter Makers, AWR and BAZ Studio as a public living room. More about Demountable timber library in Amsterdam is "a living room for the neighbourhood"
Danish amusement park Tivoli has unveiled Hikari, a new area informed by Japanese cities that features art by Takashi Murakami and was designed to be "genuinely respectful of its origin". More about Tivoli creates theme park Japanese neighbourhood in central Copenhagen
The Architects Registration Board has announced changes to its professional practice experience approach, which will see its two-year requirement of industry experience scrapped. More about ARB scraps two-year practice requirement for architectural registration in the UK
Furniture company IKEA has launched the limited-edition Konstrunda collection, an assortment of furniture and homeware objects that reimagine collectible design from the likes of Andu Masebo at an affordable price point. More about IKEA's most recent collection is an "entry point" for young collectors
The Thompson Center in downtown Chicago has been given a new facade as part of a renovation for tech company Google by architecture studio Jahn. More about Photos reveal new facade of Google's Thompson Center
International studio Open Architecture drew on Lina Bo Bardi's own designs when creating The Poetics of Survival, the first major exhibition of the architect's work in China. More about SESC Pompéia indoor pond replicated for Lina Bo Bardi exhibition in Shanghai
The New York office of OMA and local practice YA Studio have arranged a 160-home apartment block in San Francisco, California, around multiple courtyards. More about OMA completes first US affordable housing development in San Francisco
Dezeen School Shows: a project aiming to optimise architect Berthold Lubetkin's Grade I-listed Finsbury Health Centre for 21st-century users is among those by the University of Nottingham. More about Berthold Lubetkin's Finsbury Health Centre reimagining among projects by University of Nottingham
A brick cube reminiscent of old industrial structures forms this family home in the suburbs of Ghent, designed by Belgian architecture studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle. More about Atelier Vens Vanbelle references brick industrial buildings for cubic home in Belgium
The Barbican Centre shop has launched a homeware collection with online retailer Made.com, which includes furniture and lighting modelled on details of the brutalist housing complex in central London. More about Barbican and Made.com launch homeware collection celebrating iconic London estate
Game developer Blue Hood Games has released a survival game named Europe Heatwave Simulator, where players need to outlast a 14-day heatwave without air conditioning in an apartment in Paris. More about Gamers must survive without air-con in Europe Heatwave Simulator
The fifth edition of Bali's Jia Curated design festival features pavilions that aim to put nature at the centre, including structures built from rice husks and salt bricks. Here are eight of the most interesting. More about Eight pavilion highlights from Jia Curated 2026
Tickets for the Dezeen Awards 2026 party, which will take place in London in November, are now on sale. Secure your place before they sell out! More about Dezeen Awards 2026 party tickets now on sale
Designer Shahar Livne has created The Devil's Milk, a collection of designs that investigate rubber production and its history of violence and abuse. More about Shahar Livne's The Devil's Milk furniture explores how rubber "shaped human culture"
Chilean studio Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos has used glued-laminated timber for the House by Fuy River in the Andean foothills, designed as a vertically organised structure that engages with "different layers of the forest canopy". More about Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos uses mass timber for forest hideaway in Chile
Polish architect Kuba Woźniczka has completed Studzienno 27, a series of four holiday cabins nestled in the woodlands of the Stołowe Mountains National Park. More about Kuba Woźniczka nestles black-timber holiday cabins in Polish woodland
The first production model of the electric Ferrari designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson has sold for $40 million – a record price for a new vehicle at auction. More about Ferrari's controversial first EV sells for record million at auction
The "dopamine decor" interiors trend is taking social media by storm, but it's just another disingenuous dressing-up of superficial style as life-improving experience, writes Julie Lasky. More about "I find it icky to glibly invoke brain chemistry in the marketing of style"
Architecture studios Waugh Thistleton Architects and Mithun have designed a 12-storey mass-timber office block in Bellevue, Washington. More about Waugh Thistleton Architects set to build "tallest mass timber office building in the US"
French-German designer Tatjana von Stein designed hundreds of bespoke lights and furnishings for this hotel in Munich, drawing on the city's art nouveau style and its exuberant nightlife history. More about Tatjana von Stein blends Jugendstil style with 1980s glamour for The Dean Munich
You can still feature in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to the 24th edition of London Design Festival, which takes place from 12 to 20 September. More about Last chance to feature in Dezeen's digital guide to London Design Festival 2026
Dutch studio Woonpioniers has completed CoHouse in Utrecht, a pair of interlocking houses designed for two families within a single gabled volume. More about Woonpioniers models adjoining Dutch homes on "a game of Tetris"
With much of the world suffering from heatwaves and the UK set to experience its hottest summer on record, we have collected five ice cream stores that offer a temporary cool fix. More about Five ice cream shops that provide cool respite from the summer heat
Spanish studio NUA Arquitectures has renovated a textile warehouse near Barcelona, using timber partitions to create a small office block within its concrete-and-brick structure. More about NUA Arquitectures renovates Catalan textile warehouse with timber office block
Social media platform Instagram has updated its brand identity with elements such as a refreshed, "bolder and simpler" wordmark and updated typographic elements across the platform. More about Instagram redesigns its wordmark for first time in a decade