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This pharmacy in Athens by Greek studio KLab Architecture has a branching facade and green panels suspended from the ceiling inside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A shelving unit displaying children’s clothes doubles up as a plywood playhouse with a sliding staircase, swinging doors and removable furniture. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet. Read more

The interiors of future houses will be designed to mitigate coronavirus, says Michelle Ogundehin who has outlined 11 ways the pandemic will impact the home. Read more View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including new work by Neri&Huand Richard Meier, handmade electrical plugs and updates from the fairs in Cologne and Paris this week. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our latest pop-ups. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house on the outskirts of Isa, Japan is by architects EASTERN design office and has been raised on a concrete block to afford views of the sea. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Copenhagen studio 3XN has completed Olympic House, a new headquarters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. Read more

Dezeen Wire: Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple, has died, the company has announced. He was 56. Apple’s homepage is today dedicated to a photo of Jobs (above) and, instead of product news, hosts a short statement which starts “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being”. Steven Paul Jobs, 1955-2011 – Wall Street Journal | Steve Jobs dies – live blog – The Telegraph | All our stories about Apple </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Scenario by Italian brand MCZ is a combined TV and fireplace. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created a hair clip with eyes on to make the wearer look like they’re standing the other way round and wearing a niqāb headdress. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bestselling timepieces by Hong Kong-based brand Void have arrived at Dezeen Watch Store in new colour combinations. Read more View the full article

Japanese firm Torafu Architects has designed a lightweight workstation that can be folded into itself for easy carrying. (more…) View the full article

US President Donald Trump's first budget plan includes a sizeable downpayment on his promised wall along the country's southern border with Mexico. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: launching during this year's Milan design week, the Space & Interiors event will explore current trends in interior design from 12 to 16 April 2016. (more…) View the full article

Mid-century furnishings are a perennial favourite in contemporary interiors. We've rounded up 10 of the most popular homes to show off classic designs from our Pinterest page, from a renovated apartment in London's Barbican Estate to a simply styled Berlin flat. Read more View the full article

London designer Dominic Wilcox created this stylus that straps over his nose for using his touch-screen phone in the bath. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The High Line Section 2 in New York (top left) and Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (bottom left) were among our most popular stories this month so here’s a roundup of our ten most-clicked stories about parks and gardens from the Dezeen archives. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year MVRDV’s Balancing Barn was nearing completion and the proposals for the V&A at Dundee were unveiled, including the eventual winning design by Kengo Kuma. The Royal College of Art launched a collection of pieces for sale by their graduates, Faye Toogood presented her debut furniture collection, Jasper Morrison unveiled a telephone for Swiss brand Punkt and Paul Cocksedge installed fluttering sheets of Corian at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Dezeen Watch Store launched with two pop-ups at the London Design Festival 2010, including Uniform Wares’ 200 Series. See all our stories from September 2010 » See our review of last year » …

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games get underway this Friday with an opening ceremony inside a Fabergé egg-inspired stadium by sports architecture firm Populous. (more...) View the full article

New York architect Stan Allen constructed this pavilion of bamboo scaffolding at a former airport in Taichung, Taiwan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week OMA won a competition to design the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, which topped out in June last year. Klein Dytham Architecture completed their Moku Moku Yu baths in Japan’s Southern Alps, Tate Britain appointed Caruso St John Architects to modernise their Millbank gallery and we continued our coverage from Design Miami including pieces by Zaha Hadid, Bodo Sperlein and Studio Job. The one-month-old Dezeen was getting ready to celebrate it’s first Christmas and received a lovely Christmas card designed by Thomas Heatherwick. See all our stories from December 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img>…

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Alejandro Aravena's Reporting from the Front-themed Venice Biennale is filled with good intentions, but can architects ever really be honest about architecture, asks Mimi Zeiger. (more…) View the full article

This multi-purpose sports hall by Parisian studio AP 5 Architects has shutters in the facade to open the lower part of the building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Italian designer Denis Guidone to give away nine of his Rigolo notebooks with slanted and squiggly ruled pages. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A hotel has opened in the upper levels of the Ole Scheeren-designed art centre in Beijing, featuring rooms designed by MQ Studio to be warm and inviting. Read more