Two more houses by modernist architect Richard Neutra and a house by local architect Eric Owen Moss have been confirmed destroyed due to the deadly wildfires sweeping through Greater Los Angeles. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/neutra-moss-houses-destroyed-la-wildfires/

Oxford practice Studio Hallett Ike has refurbished BR House, a Victorian townhouse in east London, and added a studio to its garden. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/studio-hallett-ike-br-house-london/

We continue our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series with Grafton Architects' concrete university campus in Lima, Peru, a building that set a new standard for urban higher-education environments. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/grafton-architects-utec-lima-campus-21st-century-architecture/

US president Donald Trump has issued the Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order on his first day back in office. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/trump-promoting-beautiful-federal-civic-architecture-executive-order/

Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati has unveiled a mixed-use development set to comprise "three totemic figures" in Tirana, Albania. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/valerio-olgiati-skyscrapers-tirana/

Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a "Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth". Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/china-space-solar-farm/

Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Miniforms and design studio E-ggs have added a spacious sofa called Nebulone to their Nebula family of upholstered seating. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/nebulone-sofa-e-ggs-miniforms-dezeen-showroom/

Freehaus and Office Sian are among the five architecture studios shortlisted to create the memorial for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, selected by The Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission and RIBA. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/grenfell-tower-memorial-shortlist/

Ghana president John Mahama has announced an investigation into the funding of the unbuilt National Cathedral of Ghana in Accra, designed by architect David Adjaye's studio. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/national-cathedral-of-ghana-adjaye-government-investigation/

Design studio Inxects has developed a wearable that translates environmental stress signals into physical sensations to let users feel humanity's impact on nature. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/gaia-communication-system-wearable-inxects/

Local design studio I IN has updated the reception lounge for a Tokyo office, adding a verdant plant centrepiece and a sculptural ceramic installation. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/21/i-in-office-lounge-museum-tower-kyobashi/

An arched entryway and "electric blue millwork" are among the features in a rowhouse in Philadelphia's Society Hill neighbourhood that has been renovated by architectural studio TBo. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/tbo-society-hill-residence-philadelphia/

Mexican architecture studio Lanza Atelier has created a temporary wood-and-steel pavilion to function as a gathering space in a Mexico City courtyard. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/lanza-atelier-creates-shou-sugi-ban-pavilion-in-mexico-city/

Dezeen Showroom: German brand Cybex has created a a wooden high chair for design-conscious parents that is foldable, easy to store and can be adapted for all ages. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/click-and-fold-high-chair-cybex-dezeen-showroom/

A wall of timber louvres references traditional wooden beach shacks at this house in Byron Bay, Australia, completed by local architecture practice Son Studio. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/bangalow-road-house-son-studio/

Humanitarian architect and post-disaster reconstruction expert Cameron Sinclair, who lost his house in the ongoing wildfires in LA, shares practical advice for people in a similar position. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/la-wildfires-practical-advice/

The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series looks at Bosco Verticale, the first "vertical forest". Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/bosco-verticale-stefano-boeri-21st-century-architecture/

Design studio OMI Collective has created an archive documenting tropical modernist architecture in Lagos, Nigeria. Here, its founder Olorufemi Adewuyi spotlights seven stand-out buildings featured in it. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/omi-collective-tropical-modernism-lagos-archive/

Industrial design duo SF-SO has developed a range of modular bent-metal storage that is only 1.6 millimetres thick but can support the equivalent of a baby elephant in weight. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/sf-so-thin-furniture-series/

Promotion: a project spanning several European countries has explored how it can empower small and remote places by transforming underutilised public spaces. Read more

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/europe-wide-initiative-sets-out-to-revitalise-small-remote-spaces/