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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara won the Pritzker Architecture Prize this week, so we've updated our Pritzker Prize winners Pinterest board to feature some of their most important projects. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

To celebrate the beginning of spring and warmer weather, we have updated our plant-covered buildings Pinterest board with images from recent projects where botany is considered alongside architecture. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

Alison Brooks Architects has built an art-filled black house alongside a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire that has been converted into a dedicated gallery space. Read more View the full article

This house designed by Japanese studio Suppose Design Office in the grounds of a clinic is raised above the car park on piloti. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Aeternum's range of Mourning jewellery is designed to offer people who are grieving a death "something to hold in times of sorrow". Read more View the full article

Dezeen have again teamed up with creative studio/publishers It’s Nice That to give away five copies of the latest issue of their bi-annual printed publication, launched today, as well as a print by Dutch illustrator Parra for each winner. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish office Magén Arquitectos have completed a building for the environment department of Zaragoza city council in Spain, featuring a top level of wood paneling, a glass mid-section and a black-tinted concrete bottom. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects SOMAA of Stuttgart have completed an extension to a school in Leonberg, Germany, made of board-formed concrete where the boards were skewed to form a pattern. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Dutch architects UNStudio will present this angular white plastic chair at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the 202 Series of watches by Uniform Wares is available in new colours at Dezeen Watch Store, both online and in our Seven Dials pop-up at 55 Neal Street, London WC2 9PJ until 10 July. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two refurbished wine cellars in Spain feature undulating oak ceilings and stainless steel trees. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: supporters of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have been posting photos of themselves naked on a website as a protest against the Beijing police’s decision to question his assistant, who had taken nude pictures of the artist and four women – The Telegraph Ai was detained for 81 days earlier this year by the Chinese government on charges of tax evasion, during which time he was also asked about the photographs that he says have no deeper political meaning. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A frameless sheet of glass undulates around this barrel-vaulted conservatory in west London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Israeli architects Pitsou Kedem have completed a showroom for furniture brand B&B Italia inside an industrial warehouse by the harbour in Tel Aviv. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie by Paul Nicholls of architectural animation studio Factory Fifteen, the world is conceptualised as a series of virtual interfaces, where people visit places and meet each other in simulated environments created by the houses that they never leave. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that’s specifically designed not to be accurate. (more…) View the full article

This house by Japanese firm Naya Architects is so closely surrounded by apartment blocks that its walls have to lean away from them. (more…) View the full article

Just in case you haven’t seen enough design for the London 2012 Olympic games yet, we’ve made a new Pinterest board featuring all the London 2012 Olympic design and architecture images from the pages of Dezeen. Over 21,000 people now follow us on Pinterest – join them here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See more stories featuring London 2012 olympics on Dezeen » View the full article

News: Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 200-metre skyscraper for collapsed real estate company Lehman Brothers Holdings and partner L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: objects that seem like half-finished sketches of candle holders, vases, bowls and bottles won British designer Maya Selway second prize in the Object category of the Interieur Design Awards at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Amsterdam’s problem families are to be moved to isolated caravans or shipping containers in the outskirts of the city under new plans announced by mayor Eberhard van der Laan. (more…) View the full article

A car that drives itself through traffic jams and does the parking for you was showcased alongside shape-shifting OLED headlights by German car brand Audi at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (more...) View the full article

These graphic shapes on the wall can be pulled outwards to form a clothes rail and occasional table. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: Italian architect Carlo Ratti and his team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology installed three robotic bartenders in Milan last week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article