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New York’s Department of Buildings has greenlit designs by architecture studio PAU and engineering outfit Arup for the city’s sidewalk sheds to make them « safer, more egalitarian, and more beautiful ». Read more

The San Francisco Arts Commission has voted to dismantle and store a 1970s concrete fountain in San Francisco designed by artist Armand Vaillancourt. Read more

Architects Shibanee Sagar and Aadi Sagar explain how they introduced green-roofed suburban housing to foster daily contact with nature in this Texas community, as shown in this exclusive video by Dezeen. Read more

A cluster of new and old buildings in the ancient centre of Yangzhou, China, has been stitched together into a hotel complex by local firms BLUE Architecture Studio and the Urban Architecture Lab at Southeast University. Read more

With a growing number of lectures, talks and interviews, David Adjaye is slowly returning to public life following sexual assault and harassment accusations two years ago. We ask how the architecture profession will react. Read more

Architect David Adjaye has called the reporting on his alleged sexual misconduct « deeply unfair », in some of his first on-the-record comments since allegations came to light. Read more

French flooring brand Tarkett has announced that its linoleum is now carbon-negative across all stages of its life cycle, from sourcing raw materials to end-of-life deconstruction and recycling. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: made of ultra-thin birch plywood, designer Ilkka Kauppinen’s sculptural Adilo pendant lamp for Finnish brand Secto Design unfurls from flat. Read more

Japanese design firm Studio Aluc « deliberately retained traces of past craftsmanship » to transform a historic machiya residence into a short-stay hotel in Kyoto. Read more

Interior designer Matthew Williamson has created an amber-toned trophy for the 2026 BRIT Awards, which was designed to mark the ceremony being hosted in Manchester for the first time. Read more