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Vibrant green stripes and angular roofs add character to the exterior of this school that architecture firm CEBRA has completed in Aabybro, Denmark (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

When creating this hand-painted music video for Oakland musician Makeunder, Carine Khalife looked to the works of figurative painter Francis Bacon (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Normann Copenhagen has reopened its flagship furniture and homeware store in the Danish capital, where a steel corridor, mirrored walls and a space coloured entirely in pink have all been added (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A 350-metre-long glass block ramps up from the runway of a former soviet airfield near the city of Tartu to form the Estonian National Museum, which officially opens to the public today (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Toyo Ito's cavernous opera house opened in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, while cultural buildings by Zaha Hadid Architects and Amanda Levete neared completion. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: responsive paper shredders and fans that create moving colour effects feature in the Blend exhibition created by Dutch studio Raw Color at London's Aram Gallery (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American firm Ward + Blake Architects has completed a residence and guest house in western Wyoming, which features rustic materials and sweeping views of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US set design studio Robert Storey has designed a plant-filled temporary retail space for online store Everlane in New York, influenced by the verdant conservatory at London's brutalist Barbican Estate (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Finnish Modernist architect Alvar Aalto accidentally invented the skateboard bowl with a 1930s swimming pool design, according to a US skateboarding magazine and a Finnish newspaper. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architectural job captain at film studio 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

From a bed cocooned in an ice vortex to a colourful suite in America's first gay boutique hotel, this week we're counting down Dezeen's most-pinned hotel room interiors from all around the world (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This wooden stables on the edge of a Finnish forest features an asymmetric gabled roof which covers stalls for the horses and a lowered barn containing manure (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will be the first digital journalist to be made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. (more…) View the full article

Haworth white papers: co-working spaces popular with small companies and individual workers could help large corporations be more innovative, according to a report by office furniture giant Haworth. (more…) View the full article

The team behind the Gravity Sketch iPad app have launched new cross-platform software, which gives designers the option to draw and manipulate 3D objects in a virtual reality environment (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a designer maker at London studio Glithero, which recently installed a kinetic "abstract clock" inside a stairwell at London's V&A museum (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This 1960s house in suburban Melbourne has been overhauled by Branch Studio Architects to create a contemporary home for the original owners' granddaughter (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2016: Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has collaborated with silverware manufacturer Jarosinski & Vaugoin to create a set of minimal tableware featuring uneven washes of gold (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Bourgeois Lechasseur Architects has stacked two wood-and-glass volumes at opposing angles, resulting in a home designed to embrace its picturesque surroundings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Drawings and furniture by legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán are on display in Manhattan, alongside the works of prominent artists who have also used colour distinctively (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have used wooden moulds to produce giant versions of their diamond-shaped Ruutu vases (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Breaking news: Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been named as the 2017 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, after winning both the Praemium Imperiale prize and the Venice Architecture Biennale Golden Lion this year. (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam fashion label Senscommon has combined high-tech fabrics with functional fastenings to create a waterproof coat designed specifically for cyclists (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Parts of the mountain landscape extend into this house in southeast China, which was planned by designer Xu Fu-Min to offer its residents a peaceful retreat from city life (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has made its first foray into nautical design with a powerboat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article