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With less than two weeks to enter Dezeen Awards, Swedish-Chinese architect Alex Mok says that she'll be looking for spaces that surprise and for the use of new materials. Read more View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Figtree Factory Studios to give readers a chance to win one of five pairs of their 01M OneMoment 100% biodegradable shoes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian architecture studio Office Ou has surrounded a detached garage in Toronto with glass doors and windows to convert it into a multifunctional space. Read more View the full article

The rear facade of this hillside house by Japanese architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto slides opens to reveal a graduated terrace with a sweeping view of the sea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm Roth Sheppard has added a pair of steeply pitched metal gables to this brick Tudor Revival house in Denver. Read more View the full article

Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. Read more View the full article

Chinese architects Approach Design has added a new hall to the Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Centre in China and concealed it under a green roof featuring a running track and sports courts. Read more

Architects Stephen Williams Associates have completed a hotel that looks like a shipping warehouse beside the harbour in Hamburg. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium 2011: Hamburg designer Alexa Lixfeld is presenting a range of handmade products at The Temporium including handwoven dolls based on drawings made by school children in Sri Lanka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo 2011: French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux presented a wedding dress made from 500 snowflake-like baubles at this year’s DesignTide Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A glazed tower sits atop the volcanic stone facade of this performing arts centre in Belfast to create a beacon above the surrounding rooftops. (more…) View the full article

The battle between BIG and OMA to redesign the Miami Beach Convention Center leads Dezeen Mail issue 152, plus all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 151 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

One year ago Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled designs for an enormous undulating arts centre in Chengdu, China and Michael Graves & Associates completed a building for the Dutch national automobile museum inspired by a traditional carriage house. A Japanese home with stairs covering the façade divided opinion, with some of our readers saying it looked like stadium bleachers, while one reader described a monolithic office and residential complex by Erick van Egeraat as an “ugly big charmless building!”. Meanwhile, British designer Robin Day passed away aged 95, architects Carmody Groarke designed an interior for a fashion exhibition with backlit partitions that resem…

Clout is bringing South African design to VDF x Ventura Projects in its launch of a furniture collection by emerging designer Khosi Leteba. Read more View the full article

Clothing company Vollebak has made its Full Metal Jacket from copper as the first step in developing intelligent and disease-resistant clothing in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Readers are decrying the decision to scrap Álvaro Siza's design for a new entrance and visitor centre at historic Granada palace the Alhambra in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Designers Nienke Hoogvliet and Ryo Tada, filmmaker Georg Lendorff and Ventura Projects founder Margriet Vollenberg will join Dezeen's Marcus Fairs for a talk about running a studio during lockdown conditions from 2:00pm today as part of VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Chinese designer Mario Tsai presents From The Structures at Milan design week, a solo exhibition revealing the results of experiments with contemporary production techniques. Read more

A pair of hollow red pyramids support the weight of these bridges that span the mouth of the river Elliðaár in the Icelandic capital (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

More than 100 trees will adorn the gridded facade of IKEA's city-centre Vienna Westbahnhof store, which will have no car parking spaces. Read more View the full article

This time last year Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize for the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and David Chipperfield was announced as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. Meanwhile, Yves Béhar designed an office chair inspired by suspension bridges, Patrick Hyland produced a concept phone powered by body heat and IKEA released a cookbook featuring photographs of ingredients laid out in patterns. Sou Fujimoto Architects completed a stacked apartment building in Tokyo, a minimal renovation of a 100-year-old parish impressed our readers and Chyutin Architects won a competition to design a controversial museum in Jerusalem. We featu…

Architectural photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his images of a nursing home in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Aires Mateus Arquitectos. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick unveiled the prototype of his New Bus for London, Snøhetta released proposals for a Maggie’s cancer care centre in Aberdeen and Foster + Partners won a competition to design a high-speed rail station in northwest Spain. Readers decided Zaha Hadid’s car park for Miami beach must have been designed with action movie settings in mind and two New York designers sent us pictures of their handy riot-shield-cum-coffee-table invention. English heritage announced that the iconic 1986 Lloyd’s of London building designed by Richard Rogers is to be given Grade I listed status and a team of Dutch designers including Hella Jongerius, architect Rem Koolh…

Indonesian architecture and interior firm ATT Architects has transformed a loft space in Jakarta into a pared-back office, which draws inspiration from Scandinavian design. Read more View the full article

Duangrit Bunnag has defended his competition-winning design for a new airport terminal in Bangkok, which detractors claim copies Kengo Kuma's work. Read more View the full article