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New York designer Huy Bui turned to studios and brands based in Brooklyn to create the verdant interiors for this Vietnamese restaurant in the borough's Greenpoint neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

Overgrown concrete pergolas have been installed around Monticello, a brick house restored by Di Gregorio Associati Architetti in northern Italy. Read more

Dezeen Music Project: London artist Di Mainstone is developing an electronic instrument that enables performers to make music from the subtle vibrations of suspension bridge cables (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: this Dementia Simulator headset designed by Central Saint Martins graduate Di Peng lets wearers experience symptoms of the disease for themselves (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

French architects Tectoniques have completed a townhouse in Lyon that is entirely black at the front but has three oversized windows at the rear. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A+Awards: angular polycarbonate windows create tessellating shapes across the facade of this gymnasium in France's Champagné region, a winner at this year's Architizer A+Awards. Read more View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have designed a skyscraper with glazed triangular facets for emerging commercial centre the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, which we’ve been focussing on this week. (more…) View the full article

An exhibition featuring the painterly, diagrammatic drawings by Japanese architect and artist Shusaku Arakawa has opened at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. Read more

Architecture firm Dialog has built a wooden pedestrian bridge, glass elevator and a tiny railway into a sloping terrain in Canada to leads from downtown Edmonton to the North Saskatchewan River Valley. Read more

Architecture firm Dialog has revealed plans for a cross-laminated timber university building in Canada, which it says will be the first of its kind. Read more View the full article

V-shaped concrete columns illuminated by blue lights give a tennis centre in Beijing the appearance of a spaceship ready for launch. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here’s an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The front facade of this faceted house in Singapore by Formwerkz Architects is interrupted by a shard of tinted glazing. (more...) View the full article

The Dezeen office reopens tomorrow following the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee holiday. Now you can remember the long weekend forever by downloading a free souvenir poster designed by Hackney graphic designer Sarah Hyndman of With Relish. (more…) View the full article

Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects has revealed a new building for Ottawa's public library system, featuring a curvilinear roof and glass walls that offer expansive views of the city. Read more View the full article

Canadian studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has completed a new home for the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, which features white facades that are meant to evoke a blank canvas. Read more View the full article

A steel framework covered in white mesh provides shading and privacy to the street frontage of this office building in Deinze, Belgium by CAAN Architects (+ slideshow). (more…)

London firm Acme has completed a shopping centre in Leeds, England, featuring a white latticed concrete facade and an interior modelled on old-fashioned arcades. Read more View the full article

A documentary about the life of influential fashion writer and editor Diana Vreeland, directed by her grandaughter-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland, topped the fashion category in this year's Designs of the Year Awards (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

French artist Didier Faustino has included a salacious hole in the centre of this ornately framed silver mirror. (more…) View the full article

A house modelled on the form of an explosion by Portuguese artist and architect Didier Faustino looks set to become the next completed residence in the series of Spanish dream houses for French developer Christian Bourdais. (more...) View the full article

Design student Martha Schwindling has created a series of three tables with drawers that twist or tilt open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré used sick and dead trees to build this pavilion at the Tippet Rise Art Centre in Montana, USA. Read more

African architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has been selected to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion, which is set to feature a roof that mimics a tree canopy and a central waterfall. Read more View the full article

Wind-catching towers emerge from the circular rippled roof of this brick and wood school building in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, which was designed by the architect of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, Diébédo Francis Kéré. Read more View the full article