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New photos reveal the Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre nearing completion in China. Read more

The first part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Stockholm Design Week sees a selection of well-known Scandinavia-based designers come together in a relay talk. Read more View the full article

Opinion: in his first Opinion column for Dezeen, Dan Hill reflects on the recent sale of Finland's two most iconic design brands - Artek and Nokia - and suggests what the country's design industry should do next. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with designers UNStudio and communications brand Nokia, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Universal Design Studio, Matteo Thun, Tom Dixon and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rooms and surfaces are generated from a complex web of hexagons at this contemporary arts centre in Córdoba, Spain, by Madrid office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (photography is by Roland Halbe). (more...) View the full article

News: Milton Glaser, the graphic designer behind the ubiquitous I heart NY logo, has launched a campaign to raise awareness of climate change. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has completed this year's Serpentine Pavilion, a craggy structure he describes as a "hill made out of rocks". Read more

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live at 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

New York photographer Randy Scott Slavin has joined hundreds of photographs to create distorted views of American cities and landscapes (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Typically calm colours have been abandoned in favour of bolder hues inside the Haeckels House day spa in Margate, England, designed by the brand's founder Dom Bridges. Read more

COBE has completed the Halftime building at the Adidas headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, which is distinguished by a giant rhomboid-shaped roof. Read more View the full article

An extensive overhaul of Montreal's Olympic Stadium building by local firm Provencher Roy has opened up the facade of the swooped tower to create offices "bathed in natural light". Read more View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the first of a series of films recorded at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan last month, MINI head of design Anders Warming explains the thinking behind the brand's presentation during the furniture fair while Johanna Agerman Ross, editor-in-chief of Disegno magazine, gives her opinion on the highlights of the world's most important design week. (more...) View the full article

Rhode Island School of Design student Yangyang Ding has created a series of metal instruments to help Mandarin speakers pronounce difficult English sounds. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly has impressive visuals of a theatre in China and Peter Barber's plans to design 365 cities. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Following their Eurovision Song Contest win last summer, Azerbaijan rushed to commission German firm GMP Architekten to design a new stadium that will be complete in time to host this year’s competition. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Is your mum chic, edgy or luxe? Take a look at the gift guides Dezeen Watch Store has put together to help you find an ideal Mother's Day gift, whether it's a minimal watch for cutting-edge mums from Braun or an elegant timepiece by Larsson & Jennings for classy mums. Read more View the full article

Women's collective Part W has selected six women that it believes are deserving of winning the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, to help address the gender imbalance of past winners. Read more View the full article

Movie: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius explains why she moved to Berlin and discusses her latest projects in the first of a series of exclusive video interviews Dezeen filmed at her studio in the German capital. (more...) View the full article

Macdonald Wright Architects has added a barn clad in black-stained boards to Caring Wood – a Kent country villa that is vying to be named the UK's House of the Year. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: as part of the series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Lyndon Neri of Neri & Hu about the Waterhouse at South Bund, a hotel inside a former headquarters of the Japanese army, which won the overall award. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two gabled cabins with pitch-black exteriors form a holiday house on Matsi Beach in Estonia, built on the remains of a Soviet-era fishing village by architect Hanna Karits. Read more

Ace Hotel has revealed the first photos of its new venue in Kyoto, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Los Angeles-based design studio Commune. Read more View the full article

As The Shard nears completion in London, here is the transcript of an interview conducted with architect Renzo Piano before work started on the 300 metre-high tower. (more…) View the full article

Photographs showing the interiors of 22 homes at London's iconic Barbican Estate lead this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features the new "austerity Toblerone" and the launch of the inaugural Dezeen Hot List. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article