German automotive company Volkswagen has launched its ID Buzz van – an update to its iconic hippie-era T1 Transporter that brings it into the electric vehicle age.

Ascent, an 86.6-metre-tall mass-timber tower in Wisconsin designed by Korb + Associates Architects, has been certified as the world's tallest timber building.

Architecture studio Arney Fender Katsalidis has released visuals of a proposed 60-storey-skyscraper named 55 Bishopsgate for a site close to Foster + Partners' Gherkin in the City of London.

Promotion: Global bathroom brand Kohler's "intelligent toilet designs" are designed to combine sleek design with advanced technological features.

Space tourism company Space Perspective has unveiled a redesign of its travel capsule, promising passengers a smoother and safer journey to the edge of the stratosphere.

The high-tech architectural style is about to make a comeback and its philosophy could be central to decarbonising the built environment in the face of climate change, writes Jerry Tate.

Following the Saudi Arabian government's unveiling of plans for an enormous linear megacity in the desert, urban design experts have expressed skepticism about whether its utopian vision is realistic.

Students from Imperial College London have moved to block the installation of an Antony Gormley sculpture they claim looks like a man with an erect penis.

Construction is set to begin on the redevelopment of Berlin's former Tegel Airport into a technological research hub, residential district and nature reserve in the northwest of the city.

Automotive company Volkswagen has launched a fully working prototype for an automated flying car, an electric vehicle that the company describes as a "state-of-the-art passenger drone prototype".

Architect Muyiwa Oki has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Plants and polished-metal staircases will animate the exterior of the MoLo entrance building and multi-storey car park that Chinese studio MAD is designing for a neighbourhood near Milan, Italy.

Two years on from the devastating explosion that destroyed much of Beirut, architects and designers have shared first-hand accounts of how everyday life in the city continues to be profoundly affected by the disaster.

Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a road, air and hyperloop-capable autonomous vehicle for the new US city of Telosa currently being planned for five million people in an unconfirmed desert location.