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French design studio Constance Guisset has created a homely interior for the lobby of the Accor hotel group's Suite Novotel in The Hague (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: designer Constantin Boym of Boym Partners has been appointed as director of graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. See statement from Constantin and Laurene Boym below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: work has started on a football stadium in Bordeaux, France, by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. (more...) View the full article

News: work has begun on the OMA-designed headquarters of Denmark's national centre for architecture in Copenhagen. (more...) View the full article

Product news: these lamps by Joost van Bleiswijk with stands that looks to be built from a child's construction toy will be launched by Dutch design brand Moooi this week. (more...) View the full article

News: construction is now underway on M+, a new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. (more…) View the full article

Work has halted on the 45 Broad Street skyscraper in Downtown Manhattan by New York architecture firm CetraRuddy, which was expected to become the second tallest building in the area. Read more View the full article

The Guggenheim Foundation has revealed that its Frank Gehry-designed art museum in the United Arab Emirates is "on track" to complete in four years time. Read more

Miami residents in the shadow of heavyweight construction cranes have been told to evacuate, as the structures could be toppled by the high winds anticipated to arrive with Hurricane Irma. Read more View the full article

News: work has begun on a redevelopment of Budapest's Central European University by Irish firm O'Donnell + Tuomey, winners of this year's RIBA Royal Gold Medal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: construction has started in Chengdu, China, on a 468-metre-high crystalline skyscraper by the architects behind the current and future tallest buildings in the world. (more...) View the full article

Work is set to start again on Santiago Calatrava's Greek Orthodox church in Downtown Manhattan, over two years after it was halted because the archdiocese failed to pay construction fees. Read more View the full article

Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architect Miguel Barahona overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Container Atlas brings together examples of shipping-container architecture from around the world. Here, one of the book's editors picks his top five projects from the book's latest edition. Read more View the full article

Product News: London designer Benjamin Hubert will launch a ceramic lamp for French brand Ligne Roset at Maison&Objet in Paris and imm cologne in Germany next week. (more...) View the full article

Brussels designer Alain Gilles has designed this modular storage system for Italian brand Casamania. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York studio MB Architecture have completed an art studio in the woods made of two steel shipping containers in Amagansett, New York. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The founders of Containerwerk discuss the benefits of building with recycled shipping containers in this movie Dezeen filmed for the German start-up company at Milan design week. Read more View the full article

This house in Portugal is made up of three volumes of different shapes and sizes, with narrow terraces slotted in between. (more…) 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

Milan 2010: British designers BarberOsgerby have collaborated with electronics brand Sony to present a series of conceptual products combining light and sound. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rooms and surfaces are generated from a complex web of hexagons at this contemporary arts centre in Córdoba, Spain, by Madrid office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (photography is by Roland Halbe). (more...) View the full article

Menos é Mais Arquitectos and João Mendes Ribeiro slotted both light and dark structures among the stone buildings of an old warehouse complex to create this arts centre – one of 40 projects now on the shortlist for the Mies van der Rohe Award. (more…) View the full article

Terracotta-coloured tiles clad this house on Belgian farmland, designed by architect Pascal François to match the region's traditional agricultural architecture "without the slightest ambition to be trendy" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Wooden horses wearing ties, hats, scarves and shoes from the new Hermès collection are included in a set of interiors by Spanish designers CuldeSac. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article