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This week Steven Holl was announced as the winner of this year’s AIA Gold Medal, Danish studio BIG designed another building-cum-ski-slope and MAD released photos of their recently completed “otherworldly” museum in the Gobi desert. Over on Dezeen Screen Norman Foster talks about the legacy of Buckminster Fuller and Konstantin Grcic tells us about his Cape sofa in our series of movies from Qubique. Our series of Dezeen Talks at the Inside awards continues with an office arranged like a barcode, an apartment in a former grocery warehouse and a controversial airport terminal. Meanwhile Grafik magazine closed again, retail expert Mary Portas published a report on the fut…

Dezeen Wire: in his latest article for the Financial Times architecture critic Edwin Heathcote analyses how some cities have successfully reinvented themselves as hubs of creativity and commerce – Financial Times Heathcote states that “the city stands out as an engine of progress and modernity,” using examples from urban centres such as San Francisco, Milan, Turin, Pittsburgh and London to demonstrate how intelligent state funding can encourage creative vitality and economic growth. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lifestyle magazine Kinfolk has launched its own gallery space in Copenhagen with an exhibition of rainbow-coloured room dividers, computer-generated chairs and a striped Memphis-style bench (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A staircase doubles up as a bookcase inside this renovated apartment in Barcelona by Croatian architect Eva Cotman (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this house in Osaka, Japan, with a staircase that wraps around the house’s internal perimeter. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This simple brick house by architect Germán Müller features a series of large windows, offering generous views of the scenic setting in Santa Fe, Argentina (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian-Iranian designer Roya Aghighi has created clothes made from algae that turn carbon dioxide into oxygen via photosynthesis, as a more sustainable alternative to fast fashion. Read more

Dezeen Space: Spanish designer Roger Arquer is next up on Dezeen Platform, our micro-exhibition at Dezeen Space, with his Alba chair and stool. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This captioned movie shows Doug Aitken's 30-metre-tall New Horizon hot air balloon, which has a semi-mirrored body, take flight across the skies of Massachusetts. Read more

German designer Kilian Schindler has created this adaptable modular kitchen system for German kitchen accessories brand Naber. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: Swedish designers studio vit present a special configuration of their storage system called 11 Boxes at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio NADAAA has renovated a Neo-Gothic brick building and added a sculptural addition with a jagged roof to house the design school at the University of Toronto. Read more

The next part of today's VDF collaboration with ArkDes features a video interview with Australian artist Linda Tegg, who has temporarily rewilded the car park outside Sweden's national centre for architecture and design. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Gensler has completed its Shanghai Tower, which is now China's tallest building and the second-tallest building in the world. (more…) View the full article

Scroll down for the latest update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including jobs with Dezeen Watch Store, graphic designer Micha Weidmann and architects Foster + Partners, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles at Campaign, Acconci Studio, Brinkworth, LS:N Global and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’re having a January sale at Dezeen Watch Store, with discounts of up to 35% on watches including Hu by Ross Lovegrove (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shoes are displayed on conveyor belts at this store in Barcelona by Spanish firm Bailo+Rull ADD Arquitectura. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Benjamin Hubert's design agency Layer has created a new ergonomically-shaped change box with a tilted head for UK cancer charity Maggie's. (more…) View the full article

Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. Read more View the full article

Aluminium shingles resembling shiny fish scales cover this office and apartment block in Vienna by Austrian architects Superblock. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cutaways in the brick facade of this family home by Seoul studio OBBA provide views over a small walled garden in the city's high-density Gangnam neighbourhood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house cantilevering out from the landscape in Schondorf am Ammersee, Germany, is by German architect Bembé Dellinger. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Polish studio moomoo architects have introduced mirrored columns, slanted walls and a clothes shop to the interior of this hair salon in Warsaw, Poland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Opinion: the Chicago Architecture Biennial's diverse range of participants and mediums offers hope for the future of the discipline, despite protestations from self-appointed "gatekeepers" of the profession like Patrik Schumacher, says Mimi Zeiger. (more…) View the full article

Polish architects Mateusz Adamczyk and Marcin Kwietowicz have inserted three gabled huts inside a Warsaw clothes store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article