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The German director of the V&A museum in London Martin Roth is stepping down after five years, after describing the results of the EU Referendum as a personal defeat. (more…) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created smart radiator valves that allow homeowners to remotely control the temperature of each room using their voice (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Toronto firm RZLBD has completed a three-storey house comprising two volumes split by a staircase in the middle (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects office Studioplusthree has overhauled a traditional house in Sydney for a pair of musicians, adding a recycled-brick extension that features a projecting black steel awning. (more…) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2016: London studio Poetic Lab has designed a clock with sculptural hands that form different shapes as they turn (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Tel-Aviv firms Bar Orian Architects and Rokach Ashkenazi Engineers have built a bridge in the Israeli city of Beersheba, featuring arches that create the shape of two eyes (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Icelandic design studio Döðlur has paired 20th-century design pieces with custom-made furniture inside this hotel-cum-hostel on Reykjavík's waterfront (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has added to his Liquid Marble series for an exhibition at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Corrugated plastic cladding reveals the timber structure of this house by Czech architects Matěj Petránek and Adam Jirkal, which replaces a family holiday home near Prague (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The kitchen inside this Melbourne apartment is designed to look more like a gallery, where furniture and fittings appear as art objects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We're revisiting the best examples of Brutalist architecture with a new Pinterest board this week, including Sydney's threatened Sirius apartment building and London's soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Brutalist architecture on Dezeen View the full article

This tiny black cabin by US firm Studio Padron serves as a cosy library and guest house for a vacation home in upstate New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio IFUB has transformed the second floor of an old chocolate factory in Berlin into an apartment featuring curved ceilings, exposed steelwork and big windows. (more…) View the full article

A pair of gabled buildings clad in corrugated aluminium make up this house in Linköping, Sweden, designed by architect Björn Förstberg for his mother (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This Kickstarter-funded electric bicycle has been tailored to the demands of city riding with a quick-folding mechanism and remote locking system (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Oak-covered living rooms and bathrooms clad in large panels of veined marble add a touch of luxury to this otherwise simple apartment in the heart of London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Argentinian studio Besonias Almeida has added a garden pavilion to a house in Buenos Aires, using board-marked concrete so that the two buildings match (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: nominations for awards including the UK's Carbuncle Cup, London Design Museum's Designs of the Year and Finland's most important architecture prize were all unveiled this week. (more…) View the full article

London Design Biennale 2016: fragments of recycled ocean plastic are inlaid to achieve the terrazzo effect of the Gyro table, designed by Brodie Neill for Australia's entry into the first London Design Biennale (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Colorado architects Studio B have extended a local waterfront home by adding a pair of buildings with different levels of privacy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This prefabricated family home in Princeton, New Jersey, by local architect Marina Rubina was conceived as an "experiment" in providing a high-quality residence that is sustainable and affordable (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The tetrahedral New York apartment building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group is captured in these pictures by photographer Montse Zamorano (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: circus tents, clowns, elephants and strongmen are transformed into kitchenware and tableware in Marcel Wanders' latest collection for Italian design brand Alessi, which will launch in the UK during the London Design Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An apartment in Tel Aviv with herringbone flooring went viral on our Pinterest channel this week, so we've chosen to count down our top 10 most-pinned homes with parquet detailing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Business news: German publishing house Gestalten has entered into voluntary insolvency after losing money on a concept store in Berlin. (more…) View the full article