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These candle holders by French designer Marie Dessuant come with handy inner compartments and were designed for British furniture brand Another Country. (more…) View the full article

News: an Islamic cemetery in Austria and a restored market hall in Iran are among the five winners of the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: French architects Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Belgian studio MDW Architecture have collaborated on designs for a new police headquarters on a former police cavalry site in Charleroi, Belgium, which now also accommodates a dance school. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sliding partitions and bright white surfaces helped Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández Gil open up this Madrid apartment, which previously contained a rabbit warren of rooms. Read more

Stockholm 2014: the delicate glass base of this vase by German designer Hanne Willmann contrasts with a concrete cover that supports the stems of flowers. (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are annoyed after architect Bjarke Ingels met with the president of Brazil to work on a tourism masterplan for the country. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: these hand-blown glass bubbles by Dutch duo Studio Thier&VanDaalen that delicately spill out of their wooden frames have been created to house precious objects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Morag Myerscough has created a brightly coloured cafe topped with plants to help improve the wellbeing of office workers in a revamped office building in London's Broadgate. Read more View the full article

Design studio Superflux has built a vision of a typical Singapore home in 2219, with features including homemade hunting tools, snorkelling equipment and a mini hydroponic farm. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: granite bleachers climb the exterior of this sports centre in Portugal by architects Barbosa & Guimarães, while a cantilevered, rusted-steel cafe looms over its entrance (photographs by José Campos). (more…) View the full article

This timber-clad casino by a lake in eastern France is one of three that Data Architectes designed to offer an alternative to the "locked universe" typically favoured for this type of building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Winter is here in the northern hemisphere, so we've updated our Pinterest board depicting snowy architecture scenes. The board features dozens of projects including mountain cabins, ski lodges and cosy winter retreats. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our snow-scenes board to see more. Read more View the full article

Provencher Roy and GLCRM Architectes have added a subterranean pavilion to the parliamentary home of the Canadian province Quebec. Read more View the full article

A scientist employed by the Dutch government has suggested building two dams to enclose the North Sea and defend northern Europe from rising sea levels. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Yuta Takahashi created the pared-back packaging for these natural chocolate bars to reflect their simple ingredients (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Serpentine Gallery has unveiled the design of this year's Serpentine Pavilion. Use our Pinterest board to explore images of all the projects from the past 20 years. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

Designed in Hackney: a renovated 1960′s residence that the Royal Institute of British Architects named best new house in the UK last year is today’s instalment in our showcase of projects designed in the London borough of Hackney. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mexico City studio Goko has topped this music studio with a large "skyspace" to flood it with natural light. Read more View the full article

HHF Architects and Sadar + Vuga have won a competition to adapt and reconstruct Montenegro's Dom Revolucije, a monument to Socialist revolution that has lain unfinished and derelict for almost 30 years. (more…) View the full article

Skeletal stools and a blobby, monolithic table and chair features in this series of furniture by French designer Elissa Lacoste. Read more

Paris 2012: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune present this lounge chair with a little work table attached at Maison & Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

More than 35 haute couture pieces from the archive of Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf feature in an exhibition at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria. Read more View the full article

DK-CM has built a cross-laminated timber reception pavilion with a diagrid roof in the gap between two junior schools in Norfolk, UK, to connect the previously separate institutions. Read more View the full article

Designer Gitta Gschwendtner explains how historic underground tunnels inspired her installation of seven ladders bridging the street in this movie we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. (more...) View the full article

This week, Japan scrapped Zaha Hadid's controversial 2020 Olympic Stadium (pictured), Bjarke Ingels' revealed plans for London's Battersea Power Station chimneys and we found out what leading designers think of the Apple Watch. Click through for more of the biggest architecture, interiors and design stories from the past seven days. (more…) View the full article