World heritage Corb: two residential units outside Stuttgart designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret have recently been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List along with 16 other projects by the famed French-Swiss architect (+ slideshow). (more…)
Rio 2016: with a week to go until the Olympic and Paralympic games in Rio de Janeiro, we’ve selected eight of the city’s best examples of Modernist architecture and landscaping that visitors shouldn’t miss (+ slideshow). (more…)
Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for a dean at Woodbury University’s School of Architecture in Burbank California, where facilities include the Julius Shulman building (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Opinion: a temporary installation around a plinth that once hosted an infamous statue of Lenin in Ukraine accidentally highlights a deeper problem facing the city than what to do with the relics of Soviet rule, finds Owen Hatherley. (more…)
Brexit design summit: the UK’s creative industries should come together to produce a manifesto explaining the benefits they bring the whole country, designers have suggested. (more…)
An American artist has turned the remains of legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán into a diamond, and is offering to exchange the gem for the architect’s professional archive, which is currently housed on the Vitra campus (+ slideshow). (more…)
The website of Melania Trump, wife of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump, has been taken down after it emerged that the claim she obtained an degree in architecture was false. (more…)
