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Raised mesh gables top Shaded Rooftop House in Seoul by BCHO Architects, so the occupants can enjoy a sheltered outdoor living space. Read more View the full article

A+Awards: Belgian design office Five AM overhauled a tiny caravan to create this studio on wheels, which is next up in our showcase of this year's Architizer A+Awards winners. Read more View the full article

The Australian Institute of Architects has awarded John Wardle its 2020 Gold Medal. Here he picks 12 key projects that have defined his career. 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

Dezeen promotion: Entries are now open for the Simon Architecture Prize Living Places awards, which accepts architecture and design project submissions in video formats. Read more View the full article

You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The "hellish and beautiful" architecture of Wes Anderson's new film Isle of Dogs takes its cues from the work of Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, says production designer Paul Harrod. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art student Joy Bonfield-Colombara has funded her way through art school by creating a hand-carved effigy of Lil Wayne in solid 18 carat gold with diamond tears, for the American rapper. Read more View the full article

When asked to represent Nordic identity, Norwegian studio Permafrost created wooden toys based on an oil rig and tanker. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: architect David Chipperfield has installed two metallic glass pavilions outside the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of the London Design Festival (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A tall and narrow entrance slopes down to a low and wide living space at this triangular house in Japan by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: In this movie filmed at the AXIS Gallery in Tokyo, Japanese studio Nendo exhibit a selection of their projects through a wall of stacked polycarbonate sheets. Viewed through this transparent facade, Nendo’s designs become pixelated abstractions which vary as visitors move around the exhibit. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this time-lapse movie American furniture designer Matthias Pliessnig wraps an iconic Thonet chair with strips of steam-bent white oak to create a sculpture. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2013: Japanese design studio Nendo has unveiled a collection of glass vases inspired by patchwork quilts at the Dilmos Gallery in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

As part of today's collaboration with CAMP, VDF is showing this lecture where Danish architecture studio COBE explains how it helped make Copenhagen one of the most liveable cities in the world. Read more View the full article

Developer Avanton has acquired a Grade II-listed Victorian gas holder in London and is exploring plans to turn it into a habitat for alligators as part of a housing development. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: London designer Benjamin Hubert claims to have created the world's lightest timber table and is showing it off at the Aram Gallery in London this week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in the UK is to appoint a new director for Design Council CABE following the announcement that Diane Haigh has left the post. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more photos of the prototype of Thomas Heatherwick‘s redesign of the iconic routemaster bus for London, unveiled last week as reported on Dezeen Wire. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nick Willson Architects have completed a house in south-east London with sections of the facade clad in flint, timber and lead. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed visuals for a multimodal Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia, which will form part of the Rail Baltica high-speed rail network. Read more View the full article

Architects HWKN have won this year’s MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program competition and will install a giant spiky structure that cleans the air in the courtyard of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York. (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

Inside 2011: The Rock, the newest terminal at Wellington International Airport by Warren & Mahoney and Studio Pacific has just been announced as the winner of the transport category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2014: Swedish collective Note Design Studio has designed glass lamps mounted on wooden frames that resemble mind-bending illustrations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article