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OMA New York has used translucent scrim to create a "ghost cathedral" for this year's Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which focuses on the convergence of fashion and technology (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: London designer Kia Utzon-Frank has created a set of sculptural cakes that look like blocks of solid polished stone. (more…) View the full article

An oversized dormer window extends from the asymmetric roof of this house designed by architects Hiroki Tominaga and Yae Fujima for an elderly couple in Japan's Gifu Prefecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: readers were almost unanimous in their praise for a graduate designer's idea to create a colostomy bag for "intimate moments", as they contemplated the merits of choosing the right projects to address with design. (more…) View the full article

A long central bar divides this neighbourhood hangout in Seattle into areas for buying sandwiches, drinking craft beer and watching sports (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Musician Moby has hit out at architects "who think about stuff that can be photographed well, but who never actually plan on spending time in the spaces they create". (more…) View the full article

Mexican-American firm Gracia Studio has completed a single-family home in the city of Tijuana that comprises a weathering-steel volume perched atop a monolithic concrete ground floor. Read more View the full article

American studio Hu Mn Lab+ has created a spacious family home in Los Angeles that appears to jut out from a hillside like dresser drawers. Read more View the full article

Humans will need to digitally enhance our brains if we are to remain relevant in a future filled with artificial intelligences, according to Tesla founder Elon Musk. Read more View the full article

Garcia Tamjidi Architecture Design has created a black and white office space for beauty brand incubator Kendo, featuring glossy surfaces that reflect views of San Francisco's skyscrapers. Read more View the full article

Architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a series of abstract bookshelves made from thin steel rods, which he based on 19th-century ironwork. Read more View the full article

Renowned Danish architect Poul Henningsen is believed to have once owned this house in Copenhagen, which local studio Norm Architects refurbished by opening up the interior to create bright rooms containing dark and tactile bespoke furniture. Read more View the full article

BIG has released new renderings of the pair of towers it is building beside New York's High Line, which architect Bjarke Ingels says are shaped out of "mutual courtesy" for one another's views. Read more View the full article

Matheson Whiteley has completed a simple brick extension to designer Sebastian Wrong's east-London house, featuring a combination of traditional and contemporary details. Read more View the full article

Across the United States, run-down motels and motor lodges from the 1950s and 1960s are being given a new lease of life as contemporary hotels and guesthouses. From California to New York, here are some of the best examples. Read more View the full article

Despite decayed masonry and worn concrete, Mexico City's mid-century university campus is still abuzz with student life according to photographer Yueqi Jazzy Li, who has documented the UNESCO World Heritage-listed site in this set of photos. Read more

Critics, architects and Dezeen columnists including Oliver Wainwright, Ruth Reed, Owen Hatherley and Vicky Richardson are sharing photos of their guilty pleasures on Twitter. Read more

China is planning to build the world's first solar power station in space to provide "inexhaustible clean energy", according to reports. Read more

Teal accents contrast roughly painted brickwork, exposed piping and cracked concrete in this restaurant in Atlanta designed by local studio Praxis3. Read more

Great architecture is judged on material reality, not the ethics of those that are creating it, says Sean Griffiths. Read more

Steel beams crisscross through the centre of Repoussoir, a house extension that Con Form Architects has completed in London. Read more

University of Reading students have built a pavilion designed by Invisible Studio, which will be used by artists to showcase their work. Read more

Dezeen promotion: German plastics manufacturer Rehau has teamed up with Ippolito Fleitz Group to imagine what an apartment of the future will look like. Read more

A suite of historic buildings across the US have been given new life as boutique hotels. We've rounded up five that would be ideal for whiling away the long Fourth of July weekend. Read more

Australian chef Adam Wright-Smith has turned an old mill in Melbourne into a restaurant spread across a set of formerly industrial buildings with a central kitchen at its heart. Read more