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The second of two new libraries in Washington DC by architects Adjaye Associates comprises grey concrete blocks with yellow timber fins. (more…) View the full article

News: advances in 3D printing could allow people to “print ammunition for an army”, according to Ronen Kadushin (pictured above), one of the pioneers of the open design movement. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has created a collection of sneakers and slip-ons for American shoe company Converse, featuring a handwritten poem celebrating the “sensual curve” for which his architecture is famous (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

It’s day six in our countdown of houses named after letters of the alphabet and today’s featured project is a residence in Japan with a courtyard that sits at an oblique angle to the rest of the building. Read more about F-White » View the full article

Dezeen archive: we've noticed a lot of black cropping up in architecture and design lately, so we've created an archive of all the black houses on Dezeen. See all our stories about black houses » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Internet shoppers in San Sebastian can now pick up their purchases from a shop that appears to be furnished with nothing but cardboard boxes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

3Gatti Architecture Studio will add a facade of opening and closing steel umbrellas to Foreign Office Architects' Madrid Pavilion from the 2010 Shanghai Expo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Red clay normally used for flower pots and roof tiles has been made into lamps by Slovakian designer Tomas Kral. (more...) View the full article

Los Angeles architects Kyle and Liz von Hasseln have set up a business that produces 3D-printed sugar sculptures for wedding cakes, table centrepieces and pie toppings. (more...) View the full article

London architect Carl Turner has developed a design for a prefabricated floating house and has made the plans available to download via an open-source architecture website. (more…) View the full article

News: a Chinese businessman who built a house covered by an artificial mountain on top of a 26-storey apartment block in Beijing has been told to remove it or face having it demolished. (more...) View the full article

Contemporary artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have turned five galleries at the V&A museum in London into the apartment of a fictional architect for an exhibition that opens next month. (more...) View the full article

Welsh designer Kieren Jones has devised a concept for harnessing the destructive power of erupting volcanoes by using lava flows to cast components for buildings. (more...) View the full article

Behind our sixth A-Zdvent calendar window is British architect Norman Foster. One of his most famous buildings is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters completed in 1986 (pictured) and his firm Foster + Partners this week revealed its collaboration with designer Thomas Heatherwick on a finance centre that is currently under construction in Shanghai. See more architecture by Foster + Partners » View the full article

Japanese artist Kohei Nawa filled a dark room with billowing clouds of foam for this art exhibition in Aichi, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a swimming pool, a theatre and a restaurant are among designs by French studios Oxo Architectes and Laisné Associés to renovate abandoned Metro stations in Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: work is nearing completion on an upgraded first floor for the Eiffel Tower that will offer visitors the opportunity to walk over a glass floor or host events and conferences 57 metres above the ground. (more...) View the full article

This narrow building in Tokyo by local studio Apollo Architects & Associates accommodates an 85-year-old restaurant within its base, while its upper floor is a residence with a cantilevered balcony (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York product designer Hanna Yoon has created a notebook that encourages users to remember significant moments and locations through sketches and jottings rather than with digital devices. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: every frame in this animated music video by London metal band Throne was embroidered onto denim patches. (more...) View the full article

Internal lighting shines between the vertical larch battens that clad this extension to a primary school near Basel by Swiss firms Zwimpfer Partner Architekten and BBK Architekten. (more...) View the full article

Described by Queen Elizabeth as "one of the modern wonders of the world", the Barbican Estate in London is one of the largest examples of the Brutalist style and represents a utopian ideal for inner-city living. (more...) View the full article

The mirrored roof of this children's care centre by SATA reflects the surrounding treetops and west Ireland skies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This clapboard-clad cabin with a curvaceous wood-panelled interior has been perched by Atelier Oslo on a wooded slope high over a Norwegian lake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French artist Didier Faustino has included a salacious hole in the centre of this ornately framed silver mirror. (more…) View the full article