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Graffiti artist Banksy has created a sketch for a slavery memorial in Bristol that would incorporate slave-trader Edward Colston and the protesters who tore his statue down. Read more View the full article

Comments update: readers are calling on Miami's city officials to reconsider their decision over Zaha Hadid's car park design, which was rejected just weeks after her sudden death. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Alma-nac has extended and added a second grey-brick skin to a 1950s property in Brockley, south London to create a contemporary family home. Read more View the full article

Here’s our second project this week by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates – a rural Italian villa converted into a showroom for ceramics company Casalgrande Padana. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jars of colourful preserves are treated like precious antiques at this Paris jam shop by French architect Noël Dominguez. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estúdio Casa G has completed a residence in the Brazilian rainforest, creating a home within the concrete shell of an existing structure and building a new pavilion for social spaces. Read more View the full article

Pale pink plasterwork, timber panels and simple wooden furniture were chosen by design studio The MP Shift to make this New York eatery look like an art atelier. Read more View the full article

Australian architect Andrew Maynard has doubled the size of a house in Victoria by adding a row of skinny gabled blocks, intended to make the building look like a small village rather than a monolithic block (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: after a short animation simulating the completion of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família basilica went viral on social media, readers revisited the story to question the logic of such a long-term project. (more...) View the full article

Jay Gort from Hackney studio Gort Scott Architects argues that the beleaguered British high street is actually a thriving location of "collision and conflict" in this talk filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day last year. (more...) View the full article

Photographer Roberto Conte has captured the geometric shapes of Le Corbusier's weathered concrete buildings at Chandigarh's in his latest series. Read more View the full article

Wooden ceiling beams extend beyond the walls of this boxy black house in Japan by Apollo Architects & Associates, creating a canopy above a secluded entrance courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a CAD technician with Stella McCartney, who teamed up with Adidas to design the uniforms for Team GB at the 2016 Rio Olympics (pictured). Read more stories about Stella McCartney or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this year's Dutch Design Week will focus on makers and the creative process, and will include exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events and debates. Read more View the full article

The designers of an electric wheelchair share scheme and two exoskeletons are among the five finalists of the Mobility Unlimited Challenge who will be given $500,000 each to develop their prototypes. Read more

Newly positioned windows reveal the overhauled interior of a Rotterdam townhouse that was formerly an abandoned apartment block. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the shortlist of interior design projects for this year's Inside Awards has been announced, with Zaha Hadid's undulating cultural centre in Azerbaijan, a hotel filled with gullies and waterfalls, and Google's headquarters in Japan all making the list (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stuttgart architect Achim Menges has developed designs for a robot-fabricated pavilion based on the wings of flying beetles, which will be erected in the V&A museum courtyard in London. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: entries are now being accepted for this year’s A’ Design Award. Here are some of the winning projects from last year, including this Belgian water tower converted into a residence by Mauro Brigham. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The high-end housing market in Manhattan is booming thanks to President Donald Trump's economic policies and tax cuts for the wealthy, according to a prominent real-estate broker firm. Read more View the full article

Residents plunging into the swimming pool of this Stockholm house may feel like they’re in an aquarium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chilean architect Smiljan Radic was named as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion last week, so we've collected together stunning examples of Chilean architecture on our new Pinterest board. See our new Pinterest board» Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

This house for a pianist and a violinist in Leiden, the Netherlands, is the latest in a series by Dutch architects Pasel Kuenzel on the site of a former slaughterhouse. (more…) View the full article

London's Design Museum has announced that its new John Pawson-designed home in the former Commonwealth Institute will open on 24 November 2016 – two years later than originally planned. (more…) View the full article

Creative duo Artem Trigubchak and Lera Brumina used concrete slabs, sand and paving stones to fashion the furnishings and partition walls inside this office in Kyiv. Read more View the full article