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The 2016 Burning Man festival is taking place this week in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, where New York-based creative director PieterJan Mattan has photographed his highlights from this year's event (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Australian brand Stock's popular range is now available in a variety of new monochrome and brushed steel combinations. (more…) View the full article

Mazes, slides, nets, fireman's poles and climbing walls all feature inside this Copenhagen community centre, designed by architecture studios MVRDV and Adept to encourage adults to be more active (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Construction has started on a digitally connected co-living and co-working retreat in the Himalayas, designed by Italian architect Carlo Ratti. (more…) View the full article

US technology giant Google has scrapped one of its most ambitious ventures, Project Ara, according to insider sources. (more…) View the full article

With houses in London now selling for as much as £26 million, the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize shortlist offers some slightly more attainable inspiration for anyone with the time and energy to build from scratch. (more…) View the full article

Six buildings have been shortlisted for architecture's most unwanted award – the Carbuncle Cup 2016 for the UK's worst new building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: installations, pop-up shops, events and 200 interior design brands will return to designjunction during this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A copper-clad chapel and a faceted wooden sauna are among the four buildings competing for Finland's most important architecture prize (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Technology company WobbleWorks has launched an updated edition of its hugely popular 3Doodler pen, which can now draw using materials like copper and wood composites (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The world's longest glass bridge, our roundup of the best Minimalist rebrands and a teepee-shaped home with a spiral pool (pictured) feature in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 321 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Maison&Objet 2016: Homeware patterned with optical illusions features in the latest collection of products by the late Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Wyoming architecture firm Carney Logan Burke has created a vacation estate for a New York family that is oriented to provide dramatic views (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This pair of stilted wooden huts are set among poplar and hawthorn trees in a stretch of woodland at the foot of Mount Wuling in Beijing's Miyun District (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brexit crisis: architects have reported concerns over the future of their businesses in the first major survey of confidence levels since the EU referendum. (more…) View the full article

Architect Renzo Piano has been called upon to lead reconstruction efforts in towns left devastated by the earthquake that struck central Italy last week, and to mitigate against future disasters. (more…) View the full article

Brands have been scrapping their previously complicated logos in favour of flat designs that can be recognised in a heartbeat. We've rounded up seven of our favourite minimal redesigns from the last few years, including simplified lions, sans-serif icons and a "responsive W" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Homes in this week's roundup from different American states are in tiny Rhode Island, and include a cluster of barn-shaped volumes clad in wood and a black weekend retreat with pyramid-like skylights (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio CAPD has used large wooden boxes to created rooms and mezzanine floors within a house in Tokushima Prefecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American director Spike Jonze has used an iconic Los Angeles music hall by Modernist architect Welton Becket as the venue for a four-minute perfume advert for French fashion house Kenzo (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Items are displayed upon a series of pine structures inside this accessories store in Ansião, Portugal. (more…) View the full article

Architecture students have built a train-inspired party pavilion in the grounds of a former factory, featuring a glowing wooden carriage that shuttles along a raised platform (+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern Switch House, Ikea's flatpack refugee shelter, and the artwork for David Bowie's final album are among projects nominated for the Design Museum's Designs of the Year awards 2016 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Work has completed on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by British architect David Adjaye, which is poised to open next month (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US firm Lloyd Architects has completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article