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Australian studio Edwards Moore have renovated and extended an apartment in Fitzroy, Melbourne, featuring fitted furniture made of oriented strand board, concrete floors and reflective surfaces. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Buenos Aires architects Estudio BaBO have completed an extension to a townhouse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where a modern rectangular structure sits on top of the original early twentieth-century building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Kranen/Gille of Heusden in the Netherlands will present a collection of split-open lamps at Design Miami/Basel next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The winners of the UK graduate exhibition New Designers Part 2 awards were announced at the opening of the show on Wednesday night, with Tortie Hoare being awarded the New Designer of the Year prize for her boiled leather furniture (above). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This seat by Nicholas Le Moigne of Switzerland is made entirely of scrap fibre cement. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architectural writer Elias Redstone has launched an online archive of features from alternative and independent architectural magazines. Called ARCHI-ZINES, the resource presently includes 75 publications from 39 titles over the last eleven years. It will be continuously updated with newly published material. More details below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Fukuoka, Japan, by Masao Yahagi Architects snakes across its site to give every room a little sheltered garden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This 16 storey tower in Barcelona completed by Spanish studio R+B Arqts contains 75 social housing units and has a facade of vertical panels and aluminium brise-soleil. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Plants adapted to thrive in rocky crevices will take over the facade of this tower for Nantes by French architect Edouard François. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs of a renovated fortress in northern Italy that now features patinated steel bridges, an extended underground tunnel and concrete towers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Coinciding with the OMA retrospective opening at the Barbican in London this week, here are some photos of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that the firm just completed in Glasgow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: art and architecture critics have been offering their opinions on Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, an exhibition presenting the revolutionary imagery of communist Russia at the Royal Academy in London.(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: Fantastic Norway’s mountain lodge with a sloping roof that you can ski over (top left) was one of our most poplar stories this week and our thoughts are turning to all things wintery, so this week we’ve rounded up all our stories about skating, skiing and sledging. See all the stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Continuing our look back at 2011, here are the five most popular stories from February: first place goes to this house with a slide connecting all three storeys. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

CES 2015: a bicycle pedal that can notify the owner if their vehicle has been moved was launched at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. (more…) View the full article

Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us photographs and a movie that he shot of the Chilean Pavilion at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong biennale of urbanism/architecture 2011, where objects usually found in disaster relief shelters were used as furniture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of libraries from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 2000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. See all of our stories about libraries. View the full article

This Barcelona apartment by Spanish studio Nook Architects combines modern kitchen and bathroom fittings alongside original mosaic flooring and exposed wooden ceiling beams. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Sergio Pininfarina, the Italian car designer who worked for brands including Ferrari, Maserati and Lancia, has died aged 85 (via Reuters). Pininfarina worked at and later ran the family-run Pininfarina design studio from 1950 until 2006, working on models including the Ferrari Testarossa, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider and Bentley Azure. View the full article

A chunky bay window protrudes from this timber-clad addition to a house in Ontario by Canadian studio The Practice of Everyday Design (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In the first of three movies filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Reinier de Graf of OMA talks about Pimlico School, a brutalist building in London that was demolished last year and which features in OMA’s Public Works exhibition of “masterpieces by bureaucrats” at the biennale. (more…) View the full article

Design studio Instant Hutong created changing maps of Beijing’s disappearing ancient alleyways using lenticular printed panels as part of Beijing Design Week. (more…) View the full article

News: designer and urbanist Dan Hill has been announced as the new managing director of Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research centre in Treviso, Italy. (more…) View the full article

This house in Tokyo with one tall skinny wing and one short fat one is at number eleven in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House K » View the full article

Y-shaped wooden columns support rooms and lofts at different levels inside this family house in Matsudo, Japan, by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article