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News: following this week’s news that the UK government is restricting curved and glass walls on new school buildings, Aberrant Architecture‘s Kevin Haley and David Chambers are urging the Department of Education to look to the standardised schools designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil in the 1980s, which the architects are presenting in the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. Read more View the full article

London remained in the spotlight this week, as everyone was talking about Thomas Heatherwick’s design for the Olympic Cauldron (above), which was finally unveiled at the opening ceremony of the games on Friday night. (more…) View the full article

The six-strong shortlist for the UK's worst building and drone footage of Lego's BIG-designed visitor centre in Billund, Denmark, are among the stories in this week's edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

The final five designs in Dezeen and Samsung's QLED TV stand design competition include a stand that doubles as a plant pot and another that can be used as a clothes rack. Read more View the full article

Sebastian Wrong has created a collection of rugs called the Wrong Angle series, that are designed to be layered in interconnected grids to frame a floor or furniture item. Read more View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed five possible designs for a youth centre that will form part of the £23 million redevelopment of Preston's Brutalist bus station, which was recently saved from demolition (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Michael Renard, executive vice president of bioprinting company Organovo, explains how 3D printing could one day be used to produce replacement tissue, vessels and organs in this interview conducted for our print-on-demand magazine Print Shift (+ transcript). (more...) View the full article

Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has created this short sci-fi animation that imagines a city in 2100 with drone-powered flying homes, 3D-printed food, and replaceable body organs. Read more View the full article

Here's a look at 10 contemporary Vietnamese houses, including a residence that resembles a set of giant plant pots and a skinny townhouse that blocks out pollution. Read more

Over 400 houses from all over the world have featured on Dezeen in the past year. Architecture editor Amy Frearson picks her top 10, including a transparent home in rural Japan, a top-heavy residence beside a Chilean lagoon, and a concrete property built behind crumbling walls of volcanic stone (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Open House New York event is spotlighting architecture and landscape projects across the city that are designed by women, and will be available to tour this weekend. Read more View the full article

Milan 2014: the second project debuted by London studio Doshi Levien for Danish design brand Hay this year is a collection of mirrors with geometric shapes resembling jewels. (more...) View the full article

The tallest of three office towers that Skidmore Owings & Merrill has completed in Beijing features a faceted exoskeleton, inspired by the patterns created by the folds on paper lanterns. Read more View the full article

Faceted rock-like walls line a towering atrium inside a museum of natural history that opened this week in Salt Lake City. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Curved alcoves nestle into earthquake-resistant walls at the rear of this renovated house in Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Creeping plants will eventually overtake the hollow timber walls of this chapel by in Queensland by Wilson Architects, so it looks like a ruin amid a landscape of lavender fields. Read more

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with JAK Shoes to offer readers the chance to win a pair of Royal shoes. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes our pick of 10 architecture films to stave off boredom and the porch of an Italian villa which has been converted into a micro-home for isolation. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › 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 promotion: Dezeen readers can receive a 25 percent discount on tickets to the Designs of the Year 2014 exhibition, opening today at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York studio Parts and Labor Design has taken cues from Washington DC's maritime past to create the interiors of a hotel in the city's Navy Yard neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

Industrial designer Lewis Power has won this year's rising star award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, with a series of four objects born from an exploration of "material worth". Read more View the full article

Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has made these small solar-powered lamps for people who have limited access to reliable energy – almost a quarter of the world’s population (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: German lighting designer Ingo Maurer turned Milan's Torre Velasca into a glowing red beacon with an installation for car brand Audi during Milan design week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article