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Researchers at MIT have developed a flying robot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee and could, someday, help with search-and-rescue missions. Read more

Dezeen School Shows: a design for co-housing informed by the works of Frank Lloyd Wright is among the architecture projects from The City College of New York. Read more

Architecture studio Rever & Drage has expanded a traditional red-painted house in Raelingen, Norway, adding two volumes linked with green spaces. Read more

Continuing our Review of 2025, we look back at the 10 most significant skyscrapers from the year, including a pair of towers in Argentina and a New York supertall. Read more

Architecture studio Snøhetta is set to transform a former railway site into a riverside park and cultural destination in Drammen, Norway, adding a theatre and conference hall with an arched green roof. Read more

Swedish car brand Volvo has collaborated with type studio Dalton Maag to create a dedicated typeface for use in its cars, which aims to be as easy to read as possible. Read more

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the news that The Grand Ring in Osaka will be mostly turned into firewood, according to its architect Sou Fujimoto. Read more

Global architecture studio SOM has used AI tools to inform its geometric design for the West Bund Convention Centre, which has risen beside the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Read more

British designer Ross Lovegrove and his studio have collaborated with Google DeepMind to co-create a chair using a generative AI trained on the designer’s sketches. Read more

A design system is a promise. It promises that a button in Tokyo will feel like a cousin to a button in Toronto. It promises that an icon born today will align with an icon created three years from now. But as a product grows from a single team to dozens, from one market to …