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News: Barcelona officials are outraged over plans to construct a 300-metre "space hotel" - complete with a zero-gravity spa and vertical wind tunnel - on an artificial island off the coast of the city. (more...) View the full article

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

Two arches made from handmade bricks form an extension at the rear of this Victorian terraced house in York by London practice Studio Ben Allen. Read more View the full article

Chilean architecture duo Pezo von Ellrichshausen has installed a mirrored structure within Milan's Palazzo Litta, creating disorientating reflections of its baroque architecture. Read more

Designed in Hackney: today’s instalment in our Designed in Hackney series is Bateman’s Row, a Stirling Prize-nominated home and studio that architects Theis and Khan designed for themselves in Shoreditch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: a chance meeting with an Englishman wearing a customised Rolex led Filip Tysander to launch Daniel Wellington, which is now one of Dezeen Watch Store's most popular brands. The watch store team caught up with the Swedish entrepreneur at the BaselWorld watch fair earlier this week. Read the interview on the Dezeen Watch Store blog » View the full article

Daily data visualisations created by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times have provided one of the most reliable pictures of the global coronavirus pandemic. He spoke to Dezeen about how his charts allow people to stay informed independent of politicians and other influences. Read more View the full article

UK furniture brand UNIT Fabrications has created a series of mobile screens for a primary school in London to help pupils returning from coronavirus lockdown to social distance. Read more View the full article

Taxi service Uber has launched a new identity designed by the company's CEO that presents users in different countries with customised colours and patterns, and which has already been compared to an "asshole". (more…) View the full article

Cologne 2012: Chilean studio Great Things to People (gt2P) present this lamp covered in alpaca hair as part of [D3] Talents at imm cologne this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This scaly apartment block in alpine Slovenia appears to have had its corners sliced away to create triangular balconies. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mexican architect Alberto Kalach has built a 22-metre-tall chimney for children to make ceramics on the site of the Casa Wabi artist retreat designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Read more View the full article

This week, readers are enchanted by an arched public shelter designed to bring the community together in Olot, Spain. Read more View the full article

As the Belgian town of Mons starts its year as European Capital of Culture, architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a convention centre with a golden metal exterior and a sharply pointed prow (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Part-II architectural assistant to join London-based studio Cousins & Cousins, whose recent extension to a house in Hackney features a spiralling steel-wrapped staircase. More › View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen at the unveiling of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London today, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains how he used a rigid geometric grid to create a soft and natural atmosphere. (more...) View the full article

An overhanging canopy shades the cascading exhibition spaces and outdoor terraces that make up Shigeru Ban's gallery at the Tainan Art Museum. Read more View the full article

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a set of diamond-shaped coloured vases for Finnish design brand Iittala (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: plans to develop the London 2012 Olympic Park after the Games end in September were unveiled by mayor of London Boris Johnson yesterday, including the transformation of the press centre into a technology, design and research centre, and the creation of up to 8000 new homes in addition to the athletes’ village (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in his latest article for The Guardian, architecture and design critic Rowan Moore interviews Terence Conran ahead of an exhibition dedicated to his career at the Design Museum, which opens on 16 November. In the article Moore suggest that Conran’s greatest successes have been the businesses he’s founded rather than the products or interiors he’s designed, which Moore adds are “a little too managed, manipulated, packaged and don’t quite communicate the fun he has got out of life, as if constrained by some invisible boundary.” </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Digital household companions and tableware that caters for multi-sensory dining experiences are among the products exhibited in this Virtual Design Festival school show by Edinburgh College of Art product design students. Read more View the full article

Our story on street ads that double as benches and canopies were popular this week, so our latest Pinterest board is packed full of street furniture with a difference. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See all our stories about street furniture » View the full article

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of Spanish studio RCR Arquitectes have been named as the 2017 laureates of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. Read more View the full article

This week we're highlighting 10 popular home interiors from our from Pinterest boards that feature an all-white colour palette. Read more View the full article