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Photo essay: worried that Brazil's love motels would fall foul of Olympic development, Dutch duo Vera van de Sandt and Jur Oster visited the pay-by-the-hour rooms to capture the moods of these intimate spaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: University of Fine Arts Hamburg graduate Frieder Bohaumilitzky's collection of prototype furniture is designed for Germany's Bundeswehr armed forces. (more…) View the full article

A bridge forms the entrance of this house near Tel Aviv by architect Pitsou Kedem, which also features a perforated facade referencing the traditional regional latticework (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design graduate Liron Gino has designed a set of jewellery-like devices that allow deaf and hearing-impaired people to experience music through vibration (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: for the next instalment in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, Australian photographer Benjamin Hosking shares new images of Capitol Complex in Chandigarh – the Indian city that gave the architect a chance to test his Modernist theories on a grand scale (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

To celebrate the 2016 Olympics kicking off in Rio this weekend, we've pinned the most popular Olympic and Paralympic design ever featured on Dezeen to a new Pinterest board. Highlights include the controversial Tokyo 2020 stadium, Team GB 2016 sports kits designed by Stella McCartney and a BMW-designed racing wheelchair for Paralympic athletes. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Olympic design in our archive View the full article

Canada-based architect Reza Aliabadi has completed a home made up of vastly different halves at a lakefront site on the outskirts of Toronto (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Silvia Allori has overhauled a 1970s flat in Florence to create her own home and workspace, featuring furniture that folds down from the walls and a shiny gold curtain that hides mess (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sliding windows make up the facade of this apartment building in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, allowing residents to expose their living spaces to the elements (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: a boy is seduced and then poisoned by a "beautiful mutant flower" that turns him into a tree and forces him to leave his girlfriend in Péter Vácz's video for James' Dear John track (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

An old bookstore has been stripped back to its concrete foundations to create a minimal space for Swiss eyewear brand Viu's first store in Austria (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Romanian architect Vlad Rusu has resurrected a "cultural palace" that was originally built in the 1930s but has sat in ruin for 20 years after being ravaged by fire (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: architecture and design stories about this year's summer Olympics flooded out as the event commenced in Rio de Janeiro this week, while Kanye West hit the headlines after declaring his desire to work with furniture giant Ikea. (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: long before he built the famed Cité Radieuse in Marseille, French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier explored similar housing principles for the 1932 Immeuble Clarté in Geneva – one of 17 of his buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian design studio Supercake has created a customisable shelving system for growing and displaying plants, which is aimed at people living in rented accommodation (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Los Angeles architecture firm Studio Pali Fekete has used double-sided sticky tape to affix the cladding panels to this home for an executive of adhesives company 3M (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This cedar-clad dwelling in Portland, Oregon, by local studio Beebe Skidmore Architects serves as a modern interpretation of the historic Craftsman-style bungalows found throughout the city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Diller Scofidio + Renfro co-founder Elizabeth Diller has hit out at New York's spate of luxury skyscrapers, saying that the city is at risk of being "consumed by the dollar" (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Italian design collective Nucleo has tweaked its popular design for a grass armchair that grows over time, relaunching it with a crowdfunding campaign (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for a designer/architect at Machado Silvetti in Boston, which has completed a gallery extension clad in over 3,000 ceramic tiles (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed a new medical centre for Columbia University that features a vivid orange "study cascade" occupying the whole south facade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swiss artist Felice Varini has used brightly coloured paintwork to transform the rooftop of Le Corbusier's iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille into a huge optical illusion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: next in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Maison La Roche-Jeanneret in Paris – designed to provide a home for the architect's brother and a separate residence and gallery for a friend with a collection of cubist art (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Hayhurst and Co has built a home and studio for leading leather-design duo Whitaker Malem, featuring a steeply stepped roof covered in over 800 plants (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article