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Passaro Edizioni has designed a sustainable toy called Paesaggio con figure, which it is presenting for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

This prefabricated house in Portugal costs about the same price to manufacture as a family car (photographs by José Campos). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen has changed. We've revamped our site to make it as beautiful as the architecture and design projects we write about. Read more View the full article

Windows of various shapes and sizes give this weekend retreat on the south coast of Japan the appearance of a children's shape-sorter toy. (more...) View the full article

The Wing, a co-working club dedicated to women, has opened a hub in Chicago featuring details that draw on 20th-century architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie-style. Read more

Designers including Marco Dessi, Tomáš Král and Adrien Rovero created experimental mirrors for an exhibition organised by Adam Štěch of Czech design firm OKOLO and curator Klára Šumová during Designblok 2012 in Prague this month. (more…) View the full article

This extension to a north London home comprises three shed-like blocks clad in unfinished larch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes. Read more

This small art gallery in Japan by Tokyo architects Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has a softly curved exterior shape, sliced at one end to create a wide entranceway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Space, Milan designer Denis Guidone talks about two of the watch prototypes he presented at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform: Sometimes, which is now available at Dezeen Watch Store and at our Christmas shop The Temporium, and Remember, which is due to be released next year. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a design manager at contemporary hotel group The Hoxton's east London location (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Australian architect Matt Gibson used zinc cladding to distinguish this faceted structure from the Edwardian residence it extends (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Ahead of Monday's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and reSITE , the Prague urbanism conference has shared a video of a lecture by Michael Sorkin, in which the late architect and critic quashes the lure of glamorised future city proposals. Read more View the full article

Architects working in Morelia, Mexico are choosing to make bold additions in eye-catching white. Here are five striking projects, including a house punctured by trees and a food market. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Tom Faulkner to give a reader the chance to win three cocktail tables from the designer's Lily collection. Read more

Rem Koolhaas' Countryside, The Future exhibition at Solomon R Guggenheim is more about the architect's shortcomings rather than the countryside, argues architecture critic Inga Saffron. Read more View the full article

Today marks 35 days to go until the Dezeen Awards 2020 entry deadline on 2 June. We've put together a list of the most frequently asked questions we've been getting over the last few weeks to help you with your entry! Read more View the full article

Steps built into the kitchen counter lead up to a suspended staircase in this Melbourne house by Australian architects Edwards Moore. (more…) View the full article

ÉCAL graduate Marina Daguet has designed a cleaner, modern alternative to the traditional prayer candles found in churches. Read more

These new images by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan offer a look at the MAD-designed Harbin Opera House in China after heavy snowfall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Feminist collective Rebel Architette has created an interactive map of women-led architecture practices as a tool to "detox" architecture from its dependence on "boys' clubs". Read more View the full article

Grafton Architects directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – who have just been named the 2020 laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize – have listed eight of the most significant projects from their career to date. Read more View the full article

Referencing the stone tracery of an adjacent church, the aluminium lattice covering the facades of this university building in Sheffield, England, incorporates windows of varying sizes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Reflective aluminium panels cover the rounded shell of this school sports hall near Prague, helping to disguise its scale. Read more View the full article

This week a boat-shaped apartment washed up on the roof of the Southbank Centre in London, dRMM completed a shimmering golden wedding chapel in the British seaside town of Blackpool and we showed images of Renzo Piano’s new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Our most popular stories featured a precariously cantilevered museum in the Alps and a playground pavilion in Copenhagen with funhouse mirrors covering its gabled ends. Meanwhile fuseproject unveiled a tablet version of their One Laptop Per Child project, Nendo previewed the new work they’ll show during Maison & Objet in Paris next week and Konstantin Grcic unveiled his new school chair to …