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Following the release of Social Housing, a book spotlighting Europe's best public housing projects, architect and co-author Paul Karakusevic has selected seven residential developments he thinks are particularly innovative. Read more View the full article

In his latest photo series, Sebastian Weiss hones in on bright white details of Santiago Calatrava's Valencian art complex, blocking out the larger picture to capture a blanched kaleidoscope of repeating struts and identikit forms. Read more View the full article

This courthouse in northern Palestine, which was commissioned by The United Nations, has chunky stone walls and an ornamental overlay of gold steel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slovenia's Centre of Creativity looks beyond the present in its Tunnel 29 exhibit, which is on show as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

American architect Marc Thorpe has designed this Hollywood Hills residence for an art collector to draw on the modernist Case Study Houses. Read more View the full article

An exhibition about how women shaped twentieth-century design is on show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. (more...) View the full article

Prague studio Ov-a Architekti has built a translucent house and restored a group of 19th-century timber buildings for the office of glass company Lasvit in Nový Bor, Czech Republic. Read more View the full article

David Kohn Architects and Nord Studio have won a competition to design a residential block in Berlin with a zig-zag profiled facade. Read more View the full article

Plans to overhaul the area surrounding Copenhagen's Bella Center – the location of biannual design fair Northmodern – aim to turn the neighbourhood into a year-round creative hub (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These conceptual three-legged structures have been developed by Najjar & Najjar Architects to allow Beirut's fishing community to reclaim sections of the coastline whilst generating electricity for local residents (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Temporium: this series of knotted collar pieces made of rope by London-based designer Helena Westerlind is today’s entry to our Advent calendar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we reported on the shortlisted designs for London's latest bridge across the River Thames, Egypt's masterplan for a new privately funded capital city (pictured), and an ongoing legal dispute between Nike and its former designers. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. (more…)

Pantone played it safe and still missed the mark by picking Classic Blue as its colour of the year for 2020, says Michelle Ogundehin. Read more View the full article

In his final contribution to Virtual Design Festival, video blogger and architect Martin van der Linden reveals that he and his team often feature in the photographs of their completed projects. Read more View the full article

A brick wall conceals the majority of this two-storey house that Phillips Tracey Architects has slotted between a pair of heritage-listed buildings in south London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a planning and design manager with Friends of the High Line, the non-profit organisation behind New York's elevated park on a disused railway line (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Designers Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux, who collaborate as Messgewand, have created a collection of surreal furniture made from collages of found objects. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Indonesian office Studio Eva Natasa has used teak wood to create the "elegant and versatile" L04 table, which is intended for both working and dining. Read more View the full article

Concrete was cast against bamboo to create the rugged walls of this boutique hotel in Bali, by Australian architect Nic Brunsdon. Read more View the full article

Serbian studio Alter Ego Architects has designed a concept for a 3D-printed mobile phone with an interface that only features numbers and symbols, and has no apps to prevent users acting like "mindless zombies" while on their devices (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Part-I architectural assistant at Gort Scott in London, which is working on plans to replace an out-of-use office block in the city with 45 "pocket" apartments. More › View the full article

Artists Heather and Ivan Morison have unveiled Mother, a thatched hut offering sanctuary and solitude in a Cambridgeshire nature reserve. Read more View the full article

Tato Architects and Dot Architects are among six studios that created pop-up pavilions at the Kyoto Art Center to examine the various prohibitions that apply to privately-owned public spaces in Japan. Read more

Florida-based studio Brillhart Architecture has completed a home fronted by slatted wooden shutters in a lush Miami forest (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

IKEA has sold a brutalist tower by Marcel Breuer in Connecticut to a local architect and developer, who plans to turn it into a zero net energy boutique. Read more View the full article