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In the first of three movies filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Reinier de Graf of OMA talks about Pimlico School, a brutalist building in London that was demolished last year and which features in OMA’s Public Works exhibition of “masterpieces by bureaucrats” at the biennale. (more…) View the full article

Moving onto the most popular Dezeen stories in November, architects Snøhetta were the favourites with their Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Four courtyards penetrate the rectilinear volume of this concrete library in Ibiza by Spanish architects Ramon Esteve Estudio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In the last of our three exclusive video interviews for Virtual Design Festival, Iris van Herpen describes how she created the optical illusions in her Hypnosis collection, which includes a dress the Dutch fashion designer describes as her most complicated yet. Read more View the full article

New images of Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge proposal for London lead this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, which also includes news, jobs and competition highlights plus reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 177 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

London designer Marcin Rusak has cut this set of resin works into unusual shapes that are intended as "hybrids of domestic furniture". Read more View the full article

Italian studio LDA.iMdA Architects converted this former warehouse in northern Italy into a design showroom and then concealed it behind gauzy black curtains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects Tectoniques have completed a townhouse in Lyon that is entirely black at the front but has three oversized windows at the rear. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

David Adjaye has created a "provocation or a question" for the public with an exhibition on his monuments and memorials at the Design Museum in London. Read more

Retractable walls and numerous terraces feature in this expansive California home designed by US architecture firm Olson Kundig. Read more View the full article

Seoul designers HawaSoo have designed a clothes rail, a lamp and a stool that are styled like components of a bicycle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: the Oslo Counter & Bar Stool for Muuto has been designed to be both "inviting and sculptural", say its designers Anderssen & Voll. Read more View the full article

Projects by this year’s W Hotels Designers of the Future Award winners – Markus Kayser, Philippe Malouin and Tom Foulsham – have been unveiled at Design Miami/Basel. (more…) View the full article

Four-storey-high panels of corrugated Corten steel cover the exterior of this Tokyo gallery and office block by Japanese architect Kensuke Watanabe. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris 2012: get yourself organised with these colourful accordion-pleated document wallets by Copenhagen brand Hay, presented at Maison & Objet in Paris last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Annabelle Selldorf will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 2:30pm UK time. Read more View the full article

CetraRuddy has designed a chevron-patterned tower for the developers of New York's Rockefeller Center, which draws on the art deco architecture of the complex. Read more

Construction has begun on an aluminium-clad museum in Norway by Danish architecture studios COBE and Transform. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Sheffield graduate Thomas Hudson created a fictional model of a home in Berlin for twentieth century writer Walter Benjamin, exhibited at Dezeen Platform last autumn. Here he explains the ideas behind his project. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Globalisation isn't killing the USA's backwater cities and rural areas, but rather turning them into escapes for wealthy "digirati" who are pumping money into regeneration projects, says Aaron Betsky in response to a New York Times article. Read more View the full article

Aoa Architects has clad the stepped gables of a playful apartment block in South Korea with glossy red and white tiles in a reference to the video game Minecraft. Read more View the full article

DesignAgenda is exploring the role of design in creating a sustainability society as part of Future Sense, which it is exhibiting for VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

US studio The New Design Project has decorated this West Village cookie shop with speckled terrazzo, beige tiles and creamy walls to reference the baked goods for sale. Read more View the full article

Photographer Marc Goodwin visited 11 architecture studios in Beijing to create this photoset, which offers a glimpse inside the workplaces of MAD, Zhang Ke and Vector Architects. Read more View the full article

Kengo Kuma has rubbished claims by Zaha Hadid that his replacement design for her scrapped Tokyo Olympic stadium has "remarkable similarities". (more…) View the full article