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Zaha Hadid was named as the 2016 laureate of the prestigious Royal Gold Medal for architecture this week – the first time a woman has won the prize in her own right. Browse her award-winning designs on our updated Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See the latest stories on Zaha Hadid View the full article

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are joining the teaching staff at Parsons design school in New York, after leaving the Design Interactions course at London's Royal College of Art last year. (more…) View the full article

Zigzagging golden frames surround the facades of this apartment complex by DROO Projects, which is tucked behind a row of 19th-century shops in Melbourne's Hawthorn suburb (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we're giving away a Milano Metro watch by NAVA, courtesy of Dezeen Watch Store, for the best image of Milan's design week posted to Instagram using our #milanogram2016 hashtag. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Italian furniture brand Moroso has unveiled its latest collection of furniture, including a transformable sofa with bean-shaped cushions and a seat based on a dreamcatcher (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is exhibiting a year's worth of new sculptures, paintings and installations at London's Victoria Miro galleries, including three mirrored rooms and plenty of pumpkins. (more…) View the full article

For his first solo exhibition in the USA, Berlin-based architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has created a rainbow-coloured installation made of thousands of strands of lightweight cord (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London studio 51 Architecture has combined digital fabrication with boatbuilding techniques to create a sculptural timber staircase at the centre of a family home (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Shanghai architects TF and PPAS have built a set of sprawling concrete structures that will be used by visitors to an agricultural park on the outskirts of the Chinese city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Layers of polycarbonate, netting and metal mesh wrap the scaffolding structure of this temporary visitor centre, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes for a public square in Barcelona (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Furniture designers Tom and Danielle Raffield have used steam-bent timber to cover this extension to an old gamekeeper's lodge in Cornish woodland, which featured in UK television show Grand Designs earlier this month. Read more View the full article

Adidas has unveiled the latest pair of trainers from its Futurecraft series, featuring uppers made from 100 per cent biodegradable material. Read more View the full article

100% design director William Knight is leaving his London post to head up Dubai Design Week. Read more View the full article

Those unable to visit Mies van der Rohe's iconic Barcelona Pavilion can now tour the building remotely through a virtual-reality experience created by architectural visualisation studio CL3VER. Read more View the full article

A Japanese-style reading nook and a sculptural wooden staircase feature in this 1970s Los Angeles house, which has been overhauled by local studio Dan Brunn Architecture to "pay homage" to its original architect Frank Gehry. Read more View the full article

Portuguese architecture studio Fala Atelier has transformed an old house in Porto into five studio apartments that feature matching dark blue shutters and a facade patterned with blue and red tiles. Read more View the full article

We've selected five of the best architecture and design jobs available from Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions with co-working company WeWork in New York and architect CZWG in London. Read more View the full article

IKEA was a prominent fixture in the news this week as they released their first skateboard, while reports emerged that the Swedish furniture company were considering converting a Brutalist building in Connecticut into a hotel. Read more View the full article

Our latest captioned movie shows The London Mastaba, a 20-metre-high sculpture designed by artists Christo and Jeanne Claude. Read more View the full article

Steven Holl's recent proposal for Dublin, and its tenuous reference to a landmark 160 miles away, is symptomatic of architects' obsession with fake meanings, says Sean Griffiths. Read more View the full article

Haworth Tompkins has restored Bristol's Grade I-listed Old Vic theatre – the oldest continuously working theatre in the English speaking world – to create "a public room for the city". Read more

A beam inscribed with "welding body repairs" is left exposed in this Montreal restaurant, designed by locally based Ivy Studio, as a nod to its former use as an auto body shop. Read more

Architecture firm Ortner & Ortner Baukunst has created a new facility for the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, by renovating a 1950s workshop building and adding a fly tower made from fibreglass and wood. Read more

Japanese studio Tato Architects has built a house in the town of Sonobe, Japan, with a sunroom that can be opened up to the garden by sliding open a huge corrugated polycarbonate wall. Read more

Italian architect Piero Lissoni has designed a series of bistro tables for furniture brand Salvatori, with marble left over from famous buildings including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion. Read more