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Zaha Hadid purchased London's Design Museum building this week, as her cultural centre in Azerbaijan nears completion. Scroll on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our track of the week from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

The expressive landscapes of Vincent van Gogh provided the visual cues for giant 3D flowers and enormous straw hats in Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf's Spring Summer 2015 haute-couture collection (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Two Denmark architects have designed a concept for narrow apartments that fill tiny gaps between existing buildings. (more...) View the full article

News: Arizona architect Nick Tsontakis has unveiled plans for a house that will straddle a mountain and be shaped like a manta ray (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: updated footage of construction work on the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Campus 2 in California has been published on YouTube by another amateur videographer using a drone-mounted GoPro video camera (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

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News: Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed a cylindrical skyscraper as part of a nine-hectare masterplan proposed for London's Canary Wharf. (more...) View the full article

Two shingle-clad houses converge to form this year's Das Haus home of the future installation at the imm cologne fair by Copenhagen designer Louise Campbell (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York photographer Randy Scott Slavin has stitched together more photographs of American cities and landscapes to create this extension to his Alternative Perspectives series. (more...) View the full article

News: young architects are becoming disillusioned with commercial work and instead turning to humanitarian projects, according to 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: a fluffy character unwraps an ethereal figure formed from archive footage in this music video directed by New Zealander Markus Hofko for Los Angeles beat-maker Flying Lotus. (more...) View the full article

German studio Format Elf Architekten has designed three holiday cottages for a resort in the Bavarian countryside that resemble archetypal pitched-roof barns (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Five cliff-top buildings feature walls that fold in on themselves to frame views and offer privacy in this South Korean holiday resort by Atelier Chang (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with McDowell+Benedetti, B/E Aerospace and The Manser Practice, whose holiday home on the Isle of Wight opens out to the shoreline of a sea inlet (pictured).This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Pringle Brandon Perkins + Will, Studio TILT, Wilkinson Eyre Architects and more... (more...) View the full article

Workspaces are differentiated from circulation space by sections of contrasting monochrome paintwork in this Perth studio designed and occupied by Australian firm Post- (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: after a change of leadership and criticism from leading architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects has overturned its own motion calling for a suspension of Israel from architecture's international membership body. (more…) View the full article

Over 1000 inflated and illuminated latex gloves appeared to reach out from the surface of a French lake in this installation by Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A sloped section of roof joins this timber-clad extension by Melbourne studio Julie Firkin Architects to the adjacent weatherboard house (+ slideshow). (more…)

Pomo summer: in this exclusive interview, architect and planner Denise Scott Brown distinguishes the research-led brand of Postmodernism championed by herself and husband Robert Venturi, from the style employed by Philip Johnson, which she calls "limp" (+ transcript). (more…) View the full article

German designer Verena Hennig has unveiled her first furniture line, which comprises seating made from rotatable aluminium batons (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes a concept proposing meatballs made out of insects for Ikea, Apple's gadget to increase iPhone 6 battery life and our Christmas gift guide, which features a Lego set created for architects (pictured). Read Dezeen Mail issue 283 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Stockholm 2016: acoustics are the hot topic at this week's Stockholm Furniture Fair, with designers and brands launching products aimed at making interiors quieter. (more…) View the full article

A mature fir tree would be enclosed at the centre of this conceptual tubular glass house by Kazakh architect Aibek Almassov, which may finally become a reality now that potential investors have been found (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Oregon-based ZGF Architects has used a variety of design elements to help minimise the visual impact of a new energy facility on Stanford University's scenic campus (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Comments update: the developer of New York's Two World Trade Center tower is torn between BIG's design and the original proposal by Foster + Partners, prompting readers to take sides. (more…) View the full article