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Over a thousand ghostly white shoes protrude from the walls of this New York store for shoe brand Camper, designed by Japanese studio Nendo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Industrial designer Tom Chung and Campos Studio discovered a brick fireplace while updating this Vancouver residence, renovated so its owners can enjoy into their old age. Read more

Canadian practice Campos Studio has designed this home in Vancouver for a family with four children, featuring walls of reclaimed brick and an open stairwell filled with nooks, storage spaces and hangout spots. Read more View the full article

Architects and planners should study refugee camps like the Jungle in France, according to architecture undergraduate Sophie Flinder, who has completed a dissertation on the way the camp has become a fully functioning town with its own culture (+ transcript). (more…) View the full article

Architects Stanton Williams have completed a new campus for art and design college Central Saint Martins in and around a Victorian granary and two former transit sheds in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects have won a competition to design a new campus for the University College Sealand in Roskilde, Denmark. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio CAN has added a blue and white striped extension to a Victorian terrace in London, which features a statement pink curtain. Read more View the full article

London designers Studio Swine built a mobile foundry and used it to cast aluminium stools from drinks cans they collected on the streets of São Paulo (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This sloping Corten steel footbridge by Spanish civil engineers Alfa Polaris straddles a main road to connect two parts of Granollers, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: with 30 Habitat stores in the hands of administrators, the Guardian’s Andy Beckett asks how this iconic British design retailer can be saved – Guardian </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and architect Raymond Moriyama have launched a $100,000 award to rival the Pritzker and Stirling Prizes, which will be awarded every two years through an open competition. (more...) View the full article

Architects CZWG have completed a bronzed, hexagonal library that leans across a dock in south London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The upper storey of this forest house near Ottawa projects out from the landscape, creating a cantilevered living room offering views through the trees towards a nearby lake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a seven-mile-long skating rink proposed for the Canadian city of Edmonton could allow commuters to ice skate or toboggan to work and school during winter months (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Chevalier Morales Architectes has reinterpreted the traditional Swiss chalet to create a top-heavy timber house in the mountain landscape of eastern Quebec (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: visitors can examine soapstone carvings and peer through narrow peepholes inside Canada's biennale pavilion, which focusses on architecture's role in the Innuit communities of Nunavut – the country's youngest and most northerly territory. (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm UNStudio has unveiled images of its first UK project: a 30-storey residential tower on London's City Road. (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian landscape architect Perry Lethlean explains the concept behind the Canberra park named World Landscape of the Year 2014 in our next movie from World Architecture Festival. (more...) View the full article

Swedish architects Visiondivision have created this undulating concrete habitat for crayfish in a stream in Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Los Angeles firm Yazadani Studio has completed a curving glass facility for cancer patients in southern California, featuring radiation treatment rooms that overlook Zen gardens (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: conceived as a technological update to the traditional oil lamp, Candela uses a 19th-century scientific discovery to create electricity out of heat. (more…) View the full article

VDF products fair: Lace, bows, flowers and pearls feature in the Candelaria collection by Viennese fashion house Narbon, in a celebration of maximalist femininity. Read more View the full article

Design studio Local Office for Large Architecture (LOLA) have completed the menswear section of a department store in southern Italy that first opened in 1859. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

South Korean design student Jeong Yong has created a prototype armchair with round balls on each arm and leg. (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: cannabis plants bloom in Indica, a pattern from the new Florescence collection of wallpaper by New York design studio Superflower. Read more View the full article