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Court approves demolition of Foster's ill-fated Las Vegas hotel
News: a court ruling has paved the way for demolition of the Foster + Partners-designed Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas – a half-finished building that never opened. More
News: a court ruling has paved the way for demolition of the Foster + Partners-designed Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas – a half-finished building that never opened. More
Milan Expo 2015: a team led by artist Wolfgang Buttress has reportedly beaten a shortlist of prominent architects to design the UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, with plans for a "pulsating" beehive structure. More
News: Dutch firm MVRDV has become the latest architect to design a penthouse apartment featuring a car elevator, offering residents the ultimate luxury: the ability to drive straight into their home. More
News: Danish firm Adept has won a competition to design a new home for the Danish armed forces, with plans to incorporate mobile structures that can be plugged into walls to adapt to changing operations. More
News: a new generation of 3D printing pens will "improve the creativity of everybody" and "give the world a new way to communicate," according to the designer of the Lix pen, which launched on Kickstarter this week and has already raised over £400,000 (+ interview). More
News: preservationists have proposed a system of hydraulic jacks that could safeguard Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House from flood damage by lifting it into the air. More
News: Yves Behar of San Francisco design studio fuseproject has created a new identity for PayPal as part of the brand's shift towards providing payment solutions on mobile and wearable devices (+ interview). More
News: Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled designs for its fourth extension to the headquarters of insurance company Helvetia in the Swiss city of St Gallen. More
News: Chinese firm MAD has unveiled new images of Chaoyang Park Plaza – a complex of skyscrapers, office blocks and public spaces modelled on the mountains, hills and lakes depicted in Chinese landscape paintings – which is now under construction in Beijing. More
News: Dutch firm MVRDV has won a contest to overhaul a 58-hectare steel factory in Moscow, described as "a stronghold during the Russian revolution", to create a major new city quarter offering homes, offices, schools and a hospital (+ slideshow). More
News: architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein has died in Vienna at the age of 80 after a long illness. More
News: Chinese materials firm Yingchuang New Materials has reportedly produced 10 3D-printed buildings in 24 hours, using a custom-built machine that outputs layers of construction waste mixed with cement (+ slideshow). More
News: Foster + Partners has submitted plans for a 73-storey skyscraper at London's Canary Wharf, which is set to become the tallest residential tower in the UK. More
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed plans to create a cavernous public park in Abu Dhabi beneath a fragmented canopy resembling the cracked surface of the Arabian desert. More
News: a New York developer has revealed first images of an apartment block redevelopment underway in Manhattan with interiors designed by this year's Pritzker Prize winner, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. More
News: a keyboard with squishy keys (pictured), a cultural centre by Zaha Hadid and furniture by Konstantin Grcic are among the category winners for the Designs of the Year 2014 awards, organised by London's Design Museum. More
News: Danish firm 3XN has been selected as preferred architect to design a new headquarters for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland. More
News: a design team led by London firm Grimshaw has revealed plans for a new six-runway airport in Istanbul capable of accommodating up to 150 million passengers a year. More
News: Italy's design manufacturing capability is at risk of disappearing, according to Alberto Alessi, president of design brand Alessi. More
News: young architects are becoming disillusioned with commercial work and instead turning to humanitarian projects, according to 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban (+ interview). More