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Dezeen archive: yesterday we featured a music school covered in oriented strand board with furniture to match, so here are lots more projects from the Dezeen archives that use the same material for an unfinished look. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Movie: architect Steven Holl gives a tour of the gallery beneath a pool of water he designed at the Daeyang Gallery and House in South Korea in the first of two movies by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. (more…) View the full article

Microsoft Ireland's new campus in Dublin is designed around the concept of an island, complete with a digital waterfall cascading through the atrium. Read more View the full article

The Rotsee rowing regatta takes place every summer on a lake outside Lucerne, Switzerland, and this wooden tower raised over the water accommodates the officials who observe, time and marshal each race (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This fly-through animation of Steven Holl's design for a new Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa was created by 3D design students at the school (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Glass walls and perforated metal screens help to blur the boundaries between inside and outside for this house in Beijing by architecture studio TAOA. Read more View the full article

Austrian architects Winkler + Ruck Architekten and Ferdinand Certov have been selected to create a "floating" roof extension for Vienna's Wien Museum. (more…) View the full article

A "data centre" provided the backdrop for Chanel's spring summer 2017 show, which included models dressed as robots and bags with flashing LED displays (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The pink seesaws installed across the US-Mexico border last summer by architect Rael San Fratello were smuggled into place, partner Virginia San Fratello has revealed. Read more View the full article

Construction of the controversial 115 metre-high sculpture that artist Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond designed for the London 2012 Olympic park is now complete. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: the material of the moment at this year's Milan design week was marble, with the streaky stone often associated with classical sculpture and architecture enjoying a revival in contemporary design, says Dezeen style editor Dan Howarth (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mottled grey walls meet black-brick partitions to form the monochromatic interiors of Yakusha Design's self-designed office and showroom in Kiev, Ukraine. Read more

This month our readers’ opinions were divided over the open-source WikiGlasses made of 18mm plywood (top right) so here’s a roundup of our most popular stories about spectacles and shades. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mexican Dream is an exhibition of work by students and professors of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, which is being presented at VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

British architects Marks Barfield have designed a research centre for the Amazon Jungle with a bulging bamboo observation tower and over six miles of treetop bridges. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

SP-Arte may be best known as Brazil's leading art fair, but it also provides a platform for young designers. Contributor Benoit Loiseau selects his highlights of the ones to watch at this year's event. Read more View the full article

Architect Daniel Libeskind has completed a family of curved towers beside a bay in Singapore. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Tokujin Yoshioka has just unveiled a glass kitchen and created a glass wardrobe earlier this year, but he's not the only designer who has been pushing the boundaries of the transparent material. In August, a team from MIT's MediaLab unveiled a technique for 3D-printing molten glass (pictured), and a team of students used smartphone glass to build a lightweight pavilion, while Patricia Urquiola and Nendo were among the designers who revealed glass furniture during this year's Milan design week. See all our stories about glass design » View the full article

Electronics companies like Apple need to make their hardware easy for anyone to open up and take apart, according to design duo Formafantasma, who are pushing designers to prioritise recyclability following a two-year research project into e-waste. Read more View the full article

Architecture practice Gensler and footwear giant Reebok have revealed a concept to convert American petrol stations into fitness centres that generate energy. Read more View the full article

London architects Gundry & Ducker have added a blackened larch extension onto the rear of a Victorian terrace in south London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Elon Musk loaded the maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with his own car and Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was named as the designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion. Read more View the full article

Chair of the UK government's Building Better Building Beautiful Commission Roger Scruton has been fired for calling Chinese people "robots" and claiming Islamaphobia was "invented by the Muslim Brotherhood". Read more

Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has continued its "wearable art" theme with an haute-couture collection of sculptural white garments made from Cubist facial features. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Canadian designer Eric Cheung of studio AT.AW. presents his range of Orphans Plush toys in this movie we filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article