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Brutalism: one of the earliest known examples of Brutalist architecture in America is Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building in New Haven, Connecticut, an imposing, fortress-like building that juxtaposes masses of textured concrete with layers of steel-framed glazing. (more...) View the full article

US firm Woodhouse Tinucci Architects has spruced up reading room in the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library, a 1970s building originally designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Read more View the full article

IKEA has sold a brutalist tower by Marcel Breuer in Connecticut to a local architect and developer, who plans to turn it into a zero net energy boutique. Read more View the full article

London's brutalist-era Welbeck Street car park is to be torn down and replaced by a luxury hotel, despite campaigns to save its unique facade. Read more

Designed to offer a "landmark" in an otherwise mundane part of Paris, this sport and culture centre by Bruther features a multi-layered facade that varies in transparency to suit the various activities it contains (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Female faces peer out from a pink-hued wall mural that features inside this bar, which Bryan O'Sullivan Studio has created in west London hotel The Berkeley. Read more

Tech startup Bryte has designed a robotic bed that can automatically adjust the temperature, customise support for different parts of the body and even rock a person to sleep. Read more

Morsels of food complete the drawings on these plates, appearing to be hoisted on cranes and forklift trucks or transported by land, sea and air. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A bulky concrete first floor balances above pale brick walls and tall grasses at this family house in Brazil by São Paulo architect Guilherme Torres (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A chequerboard of solid and void cloaks the tapered glass walls of this bank in Innsbruck by Austrian architect Rainer Köberl (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A giant inflatable environment by Spanish architects DOSIS is to be blown up in an east London park to host a day of piñata making and film screenings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Barcelona company Dream and Fly have sent us the latest renders of their miniature hotel rooms proposed for airports and train stations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Barcelona company Dream and Fly have designed a series of miniature hotel rooms for busy places like airports and train stations. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The walls of this Mexico City pavilion by local architect Gerardo Broissin are made from concrete panels pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. Read more View the full article

Designer Siba Sahabi of the Netherlands has hand-crafted a series of vessels from black wallpaper. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Trans activist and entrepreneur Buck Angel has created a sex toy designed specifically for gender-transitioning men (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These vases by Jakub Berdych of Qubus Design Studio comprise hand-blown glass pieces attached to plastic buckets. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian firm Burgers Architecture constructed this mountainside residence from prefabricated volumes so it could be quickly assembled between British Columbia's snow seasons. Read more View the full article

VDF studio profiles: Buckley Gray Yeoman is an employee-owned London architecture studio known for its imaginative conversion and restoration projects. Read more View the full article

News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller. (more...) View the full article

Design Miami 2014: a domed structure conceived by American Neo-Futuristic architect Buckminster Fuller as an "autonomous dwelling machine" has been installed in the Miami Design District. (more…) View the full article

A five-sided pavilion made from pale sandy brickwork leads inside this former textile factory in Kortrijk that Belgian studio 51N4E has converted into an arts centre (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A team of local architects has added new amenities to a temple school in rural Thailand, using affordable materials and parts of an existing building to keep project costs down. Read more View the full article

Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Satoru Hirota Architects has overhauled the site of a Buddhist shrine dating back to Japan's Edo period, adding a triangular reception hall and a priest's quarters with bare concrete walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article