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A+Awards: the next project in our collaboration with Architizer is a tinted concrete and steel crematorium in Holsbeek, Belgium, which was named as one of the winners in the religious buildings and memorials category at the 2016 A+Awards (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. Read more View the full article

Visitors can climb a staircase over the roof of this spiralling community centre in Lille by French architects Colboc Franzen & Associés. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British illustrator Toby Melville-Brown imagines impossible architectural structures in his latest drawing series. (more...) View the full article

Burning Man fans can watch the action from this year's festival unfold without getting dusty, thanks to a live online broadcast of the event. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of the show. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Movie: designer Arik Levy explains why he wanted to design a range of bent-wood chairs in this movie produced by Dezeen for Czech furniture brand TON. (more…)

Dezeen Wire: U.S. opinion columnist Harold Meyerson has written an article for the Washington Post in which he challenges assertions made in Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that it is America’s ability to produce innovators such as Jobs that will keep them ahead of emerging industrial powers such as China and India. Meyerson opines that Silicon Valley’s creativity and technical expertise are not enough to revitalise the American economy, arguing that it is more important that Apple consider relocating production back to the U.S. He concludes his piece by stating that: “Absent manufacturing, innovation, even at its Jobsian heights, …

This apartment block in the Iranian town of Mahallat was constructed using the otherwise useless offcuts from local stonecutting businesses. (more...) View the full article

Julius Taminiau Architects has rebuilt an old cowshed to create a house clad in thin timber slats that conceal double-layered openings. Read more View the full article

This stackable tea set by architect VW+BS is made of unglazed clay that's meant to soften the taste of whatever you drink from it. (more...) View the full article

A wooden settle with a spindly backrest and a metal coffee table depicting an abstracted orgy are among the pieces featured in a Manhattan show residence that was curated by furniture retailers The Future Perfect and De La Espada. Read more

Fashion designer Ying Gao has fabricated a pair of dresses that writhe around and light up when someone stares at them (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group has revealed its plans for a loop-shaped station on a new stretch of the Paris Metro. Read more View the full article

Guest artists will be invited to live and work inside this shard-like timber hut. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Rowan Moore claims that corporate facilities integrated into the plans for the controversial London River Park would turn it into a “gigantic hospitality suite with a fairly nice walkway threaded through it” – The Observer Moore describes architects Gensler‘s proposal as “the latest example of a widespread type of the 21st century, the pseudo-public space.” He criticises the design for the walkway and rentable pods, describing them as “offensively indifferent” to their historical surroundings and says the project organisers should learn from New York’s High Line park in order to turn a good idea into a popular public space. See our pre…

Architects Sílvia Rocio, Mariana Póvoa and Esse Studio have used curtains, patterned tiles and pendant lighting to create this homely office for a mobile dating app in Lisbon, Portugal. Read more View the full article

British-Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad has completed an office tower in Tel Aviv "inspired by an iceberg" with an angular glass exterior that widens in the middle. Read more View the full article

Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us these images of a Milan church with a grey, striped exterior by Italian studio Cino Zucchi Architetti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai-based architecture studio Wutopia Lab has revamped a tourism company's entrance office into the Striped House visitor centre in Qinhuangdao, China. Read more

News: Storm Thorgerson, the British graphic designer who created the iconic album sleeve for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, has died aged 69. (more...) View the full article

Dezeenwire: California architects Pugh + Scarpa have announced that the firm is to split - Architechnophilia </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: WRAP magazine launch their latest issue and two new product ranges at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects has combined smoked timber joinery, huge sheets of steel and raw concrete to create the brooding interiors of this men's spa and barbershop in Dubai. Read more View the full article

News: car brand Bentley has become the latest luxury brand to develop its own furniture line with the launch of the Bentley Home range of sofas, chairs and tables. (more...) View the full article