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Opinion: Sam Jacob ponders the paradox of solid, concrete Brutalist architecture printed onto soft furnishings in this week's column. (more...) View the full article

London firm Duggan Morris Architects have completed this brick house on the site of a former plaster-moulding workshop between two rows of terraced houses in south-east London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Floating Island Restaurant by C+ Architects features a glazed dining room on stilts cantilevering from a hillside overlooking mountains in Chongquing, China. Read more View the full article

Competition: speaking of volcanos (see our earlier story), we’ve teamed up with Today Designers in the Netherlands to give away five copies of their Volcanobook, featuring a cover printed in volcanic ash. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a selection of projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who has been named 2011 Pritzker Prize Laureate (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: French artist Niko de la Faye could be found cycling around Beijing Design Week with a rotating map of the universe on the back of his tricycle. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British studio Fletcher Crane Architects have won a competition to design a waterside office building on the river Aire in Leeds, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Music: a crow made of matches goes on an adventure through a paper landscape in singer-songwriter Gabriel Bömher's music video for his own track The Singing Gate (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dutch architects UNStudio have designed a concrete observation tower to cantilever into the sky above a nature reserve in the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Coded patterns on this beaded dress by Royal College of Art graduate Thorunn Arnadottir feed information to smart phones when photographed. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Verdant greenery contrasts with the concrete benches and grey metal walls of a hotel in Medellín, Colombia, designed by Plan:b Arquitectos. Read more View the full article

British technology company Dyson has designed a ventilator and is primed to produce 15,000 units in the coming weeks to help meet the demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

This week Renzo Piano completed a minimal monastery at the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, Daniel Libeskind added an angular extension to Dresden’s Museum of Military History and UNStudio designed a cantilevered concrete observation tower. Rafael Viñoly talked to us about his new arts centre in Colchester and the most viewed story of the week was a simple house with a four metre-high door by Archiplan. Also this week, Yves Béhar of fuseproject designed a tricycle with built-in storage and Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility created a hand carved rubber pen with a gold nib. The RIBA Future Trends Survey contained some concerning statistics …

New York designer Athena Calderone has renovated her mid-century home in the Long Island town of Amagansett with plaster walls, linen fabric, marble and second-hand finds. Read more View the full article

Apple co-founder Steven Wozniak has criticised the company for its smart watch, which he says has taken Apple "into the jewellery market". (more…) View the full article

Jak Studio has redesigned the conventional L-shaped sofa to suit the "home workplace of the future", enabling it to be altered from seating or a bed into a work pod. Read more View the full article

Austrian studio Caramel Architekten have completed the first of five buildings for a science park in Linz, Austria, which is bent in the middle and cantilevered at one end. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has created a limited edition range of his Zvezdochka shoes for sportswear brand NIKE. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The São Paulo Museum of Art is recreating a 1968 exhibition design by Brazilian Modernist Lina Bo Bardi, with updated versions of her glass and concrete easels. (more…) View the full article

Former European skateboarding champion and architect Matthias Bauer of MBA/S Associates has designed a skatepark and youth club in Stuttgart, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve joined up with UK designers magneticNorth to give away six MoviePeg portable iPhone stands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The next building in our series from the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, is a skyscraper designed by French architect Dominique Perrault, with faceted glass that will ripple across the surface. (more…) View the full article

Brooklyn creative agency An Aesthetic Pursuit has designed a bold rental house in Maine with furniture and products that guests can purchase. Read more View the full article

Dutch practice HVDN architecten have completed this wood and aluminium-clad building to temporarily house a school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This pane of glass supported by wood, metal and marble sticks is a sculptural radiator designed by 5.5 Designers of Paris for French company Saazs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article