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French studio Avenier & Cornejo Architectes has used strips of cedar cladding to wrap every surface of this house in Orsay, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The lower floor of this long narrow house by Dutch studio 123DV is mostly buried beneath two grassy mounds (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Croatian designer Filip Gordon Frank has put his paperclip-like Mini Me desk lamps into production under his new brand Polymorph. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's 142-metre tower for French shipping company CMA CGM in Marseille is documented in these new images by London photographers Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: we've published a few buildings covered in thatch recently, so here's a roundup of more examples from the Dezeen archives. See all our stories about thatched architecture » See all our archive stories » View the full article

The illusion of giant cable knits was created by prints on sportswear fabric in Westminster student Philli Wood's BA fashion collection. (more...) View the full article

A house that incorporates the surrounding forest (pictured) and the world's largest building feature in Dezeen Mail issue 160, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 160 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: the cost to build a new outpost of the V&A museum in Dundee, Scotland, has almost doubled to the sum of £80 million – a figure that architect Kengo Kuma has claimed is "surprisingly high" (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: California studio Smith|Allen has completed the world's first architectural structure using standard 3D printers (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from the UK capital, senior curator at the V&A Kieran Long explains why the London museum has controversially acquired the world's first 3D-printed gun. (more...) View the full article

A steel-framed pergola covered in willow reeds shades the frontage of this seaside sailing school in Cádiz, Spain, by architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Carlos García Fernández (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our second story today featuring products presented like model kits is Italian designer Fabio Novembre's window installation for Tommy Hilfiger at La Rinascente department stores. (more...) View the full article

The resident of a compact apartment in Madrid demonstrates how she can rearrange walls and pull furniture out of the ceiling in this movie by photographer and filmmaker Miguel de Guzmán. (more...) View the full article

Bangkok designers THINKK Studio have created a modular shelving system made from wooden batons with perforated aluminium surfaces that slot in to create dividers or hide clutter. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an urban designer at Dutch firm UNStudio, whose concept design for a new business district at Tongzhou in Beijing is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Battery-farmed chickens could be tricked into thinking they are roaming free if dressed in virtual reality headsets designed as a tongue-in-cheek proposal by US company Second Livestock (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Belgian architects Bruno Vanbesien and Christophe Meersman have designed a terraced house on the outskirts of Brussels that stands out from its post-war neighbours thanks to its timber skin and minimal form (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of three pairs of ticket packages for the Biennale Interieur 2014 design event, taking place in Belgium this October. (more...) View the full article

Untreated timber and pale bricks have been used to clad six new London homes by Henley Halebrown Rorrison, which were developed as the city's first co-housing project (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2014: this rug by Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet is woven using yarn made from algae harvested from the sea (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Steel arcs curve across the glass facade of this Portuguese marina complex by local architects Barbosa & Guimarães (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Perrier-Jouët Small Discoveries: design duo Mischer'Traxler discuss their interactive installation featuring plants that sprout when nobody is nearby in this Dezeen movie for champagne brand Perrier-Jouët. (more…) View the full article

The jagged roof of this warehouse and office space in the Netherlands is designed to reference a 1950s weaving mill by Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld (+ slideshow). (more…)

This house in France's Massif Central region features a lower storey inserted into a disused sand mine and a glazed upper storey offering views of the surrounding volcanic landscape (photos by Zooey Braun + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Original features are paired with blackened steel in modular concrete furniture brand Isomi's first showroom, housed within a former print factory in London's Clerkenwell (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article