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Kingston University graduate Aaron Dunkerton has designed an enclosed cavity brick fitting that allows endangered birds to nest in new buildings and garden walls. (more...) View the full article

British architect John Pawson has sent us these snaps of the model he used when designing the forthcoming exhibition of his work at London’s Design Museum, which opens next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London have launched a competition to design new electricity pylons for the UK: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Green aluminium panels cover the facade of this contemporary art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, where a ceiling shaped like a gramophone horn funnels in light from an opening in the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Public Works has created an installation focused on maid's rooms in Lebanon at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial to highlight the windowless servants quarters built in developments across the region. Read more View the full article

Stones and shells from the seashore fill the walls of these eight contemporary British beach huts that London office Pedder & Scampton designed for the seaside town of Southend (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have completed a showroom in London for Spanish bathroom brand Roca. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Michael Robinson‘s topical posters celebrating this summer in London are available from Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2. Come down to our launch party tonight from 6-9pm and remember you can print off this flyer to get 10% off at the store! (more…) View the full article

Architects 00:/ and Space Station have designed digital advert-covered offices to straddle Old Street roundabout, located down the road from Dezeen’s offices in London and dubbed Silicon Roundabout due to the number of technology companies and start-ups in the area. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller has won a competition to overhaul the University of Applied Arts Vienna with proposals that include facade-climbing staircases and giant balloons. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art graduates Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves have made a collection of spectacles from human hair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Leiria-based Contaminar Arquitetos has created a concrete house with an angular form based on caves found in the surrounding Portuguese limestone landscape. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen: the automotive industry flocked to the Geneva Motor Show this week, where French manufacturer Bugatti unveiled what it described as the world's most powerful and fastest car. Meanwhile in California, Google's self-driving vehicle collided with a bus at walking pace. (more…) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes Samsung's AI-powered virtual beings and a prefabricated home designed by Muji. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

VDF products fair: SuperTube is a space-saving drainage system designed by Swiss brand Geberit to maximise floor area and ceiling heights in high-rise buildings. Read more View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has designed a range of pill containers for new brand Sabi, launched today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Next up our series of roundups of houses from each US state we're looking at Michigan, where residences are designed to make the most of its abundance of shoreline. Read more View the full article

Here's another small-scale project featuring strikingly realistic renderings - this time a timber-clad home in England by Ström Architects, who claim that investing in quality CGI is "more effective than advertising" (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Pascal Grasso Architectures of France have installed a landscape of blocks across the ceiling in this monochrome apartment in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this movie by film studio Stephenson/Bishop, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains how he tried to combine nature and architecture when designing this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which is open for three more weeks in London's Kensington Gardens. (more...) View the full article

Construction photos, released along with new renderings, show that French architect Jean Nouvel's supertall skyscraper in Manhattan has reached the 58th floor. Read more View the full article

SCI-Arc founding director and celebrated Californian modernist Ray Kappe has passed away aged 92, leaving behind "a body of architecture of the highest level". Read more View the full article

Chinese studio Livil Architects has added a monolithic stone-clad canteen featuring cave-like interiors and an office building to a school in the town of Batang, Tibet. Read more View the full article

Movie: in the final instalment of our exclusive video series, Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones reflects on Smiljan Radić's use of handmade paper models to design his bulbous pavilion in 2014. (more…) View the full article

A smooth, curved concrete shell forms the exterior of this art studio in Boeotia, central Greece by Athens studio A31 Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article