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Interview: Iwan Baan is the rock star of architecture photography, shooting buildings from helicopters and "living in a hotel 365 days a year". With a new exhibition documenting his hectic schedule now open in Germany, Baan spoke to Dezeen about his unique lifestyle and technique (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A sheltered outdoor cooking area commonly found in traditional Japanese farmhouses is reinterpreted to form the open-air centre of this family house in Kanagawa by Japanese architect Yoshiyasu Mizuno (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: as the market for design education explodes and schools struggle to keep up, we need to work out what a designer actually is and what they need to learn says Lucas Verweij. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Oscar-winning film maker Bruce Beresford will direct a forthcoming movie about iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright - The Hollywood Reporter The film will be centred around the architect’s Wisconsin home Taliesin, after which the film is to be named. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Developing hardware and software at the same time is design’s “new frontier”, according to industrial designer Yves Behar. Speaking to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at 100% Design yesterday, the industrial designer said bringing 3D designers and interface designers together was “a whole new blue ocean” adding, “Apple is actually a little bit behind in that area.” (+ audio) (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with publishers Routledge to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Le Corbusier – béton brut and ineffable space 1940-1965 by Roberto Gargiani and Anna Rosellini. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio Arabeschi di Latte and curator Jane Withers have installed a bar at London's Selfridges that invites visitors to "imagine life without the plastic water bottle" as part of an exhibition about ocean plastic (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel has expanded his range of products shaped by magnets with this candle-holder. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A copper-clad "light scoop" sweeps through the interior of this home in Dublin, wrapping back on itself to cover a rooftop room overlooking a terrace. Read more View the full article

Coca-Cola has released a range of mixers packaged in Hutchinson glass bottles, the design used by the brand in 1894 when the product was first bottled. Read more

Martina Guandalini is launching Soulmate, a range of collectable furniture pieces, for VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

British architect Zaha Hadid is to become the 2016 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, marking the first time a women has won the prize in her own right (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a PhD/researcher in building history to join ETH Zurich, where Swiss studio Züst Gübeli Gambetti recently completed a staircase-shaped building on campus. More › View the full article

The Growing Pavilion is a temporary events space at Dutch Design Week constructed with panels grown from mushroom mycelium supported on a timber frame. Read more View the full article

The Croono makeup brush by Central Saint Martins graduate Taeheon Kim is an attempt to break down gender barriers by redefining masculinity through objects. Read more View the full article

We've been reporting from Stockholm design week over the last few days, where a chair based on an obese human body and a pin cushion sofa were presented. See our highlights from the fair in a new Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

American fashion designer Rick Owens has created a modular sofa landscape for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, comprising large plywood units upholstered using French wool army blankets. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with David Chipperfield Architects, Nokia, and MAD, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Henning Larsen Middle East, Jason Bruges Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio Anacapa Architecture has designed a low-slung home in central California, with light-filled rooms that open onto a backyard with a fire pit and an outdoor shower. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Large windows by Fakro punctuate the roof of a multi-family apartment block in Richmond, USA, creating micro balconies for the residents to enjoy. Read more View the full article

Here are some images by photographer Iwan Baan of a house by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, where rectangular windows puncture three layers of walls and ceilings. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm Scott Brownrigg has developed a concept for a pod with a transparent divider to allow people to meet vulnerable relatives safely, plus today's other design-related coronavirus news. Read more View the full article

The late Zaha Hadid's first building in the Arab world, Iran's largest pedestrian bridge and a floating school in Nigeria are among the 19 projects competing to win $1 million in the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US President Donald Trump has suggested that his controversial wall proposed for the country's border with Mexico could be covered with solar panels, to provide cheap energy and help foot the bill. Read more View the full article

A courtyard lined in pale Omani stone and with a fountain and trees sits at the centre of a pair of houses in Kuwait City by Studio Toggle. Read more View the full article