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Detroit has approved the timeline for SHoP Architects' replacement for the historic Hudson's department store, which will begin construction in December and become the city's tallest building. Read more View the full article

New York studio Architecture Outfit made the most of a tight budget when transforming a dingy space into this bright Hawaiian restaurant in Lower Manhattan. Read more View the full article

One of Sydney's only examples of brutalist architecture has been given a second chance, after a court ruled against the government decision not to heritage list it. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa has been announced as the first laureate of the Royal Academy of Arts' architecture prize. Read more View the full article

A framework of bright yellow poles and matching cushioned seating set the scene for the Mindcraft exhibition of Danish craft at this year's Milan design week. Read more View the full article

Design studio Bravo! has exploited the textures and hues in rock from one of Chile's volcanos in this collection of 80 home accessories, featuring block colours, swirling patterns, mottled surfaces and thick veins. Read more View the full article

Venezuelan officials have claimed a thwarted assassination attempt was made against President Nicolás Maduro using explosives strapped to drones. Read more View the full article

Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. Read more

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to transform a former industrial site in Chicago into a "new urban destination". Read more

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed a vertical forest tower for Tirana, Albania, which will be planted with colourful and scented flowers and herbs. Read more

A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. Read more

Dezeen promotion: British furniture brand Ercol has teamed up with Danish studio Norm Architects to create the Pennon Table, which takes design cues from airplane wings. Read more

Ingenhoven Architects is building the Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf, which will have facades covered with five miles-worth of hornbeam hedges. Read more

A large, steel sphere sourced from a shuttered paper mill has been repurposed by Seattle firm Mutuus Studio as an installation in a waterfront park in the Pacific Northwest. Read more

A steeply pitched roof tops this small concrete and wood chapel that Mexican architecture firm S-AR has built in Monterrey. Read more

We've selected four promising job opportunities for furniture designers from around the world, including positions at Philippe Starck's design agency in Paris and Stellar Works in Shanghai. Read more

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has refurbished the long-abandoned east wing and theatre at Alexandra Palace in London, leaving its original surfaces visible in a state of "arrested decay". Read more

A "breached monolith" hides a giant light-filled atrium at the heart of this Indian house, which Anagram Architects has completed on a busy street in New Delhi. Read more

The artistic director of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial Yesomi Umolu has picked five highlights from the event, including a glass memorial dedicated to victims of gun violence victims and a small cinema set that explores race and gender in 20th-century. Read more

The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame. Read more View the full article

A converted schoolhouse surrounded by a series of detached cabins forms this boutique hotel in Washington State. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, Dezeen is partnering with Arckit to give away five model-building kits for sports stadiums and arenas. Read more View the full article

Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, who created album covers for bands the Pixies, Cocteau Twins and The Breeders, has passed away at age 62. Read more View the full article

Sneaker brand APL has opened its first store — a dramatically narrow, runway-like space in Los Angeles with an interior designed by architect Bernard Dubois. Read more View the full article

New York's MoMA is staging an exhibition that showcases Neri Oxman's research at MIT Media Lab with projects that "challenge the status quo of architectural design". Read more View the full article