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This week the Olympic torch by BarberOsbery won the top prize at the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year awards, a decision that divided Dezeen readers and provoked some design critics to question the validity of the awards. A restoration of historic ship the Cutty Sark in London by Grimhaw architects also proved controversial, with one reader describing it as “stunning”, while another said: “They have skewered the ship like a kebab. Thoroughly disrespectful.” See reaction from architecture critics to this project here. In other architecture news, OMA presented designs for a Moscow gallery to be housed in a converted 1960s restaurant, New York architect Steven Holl reve…

Construction has halted on the skinny supertall skyscraper designed by SHoP Architects in Manhattan due to ballooning costs. Read more View the full article

News: Aric Chen, curator of art and design for the new M+ museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, says the museum will take an unprecedented stance in “placing Asia at the centre” of design history, rather than on the periphery as western curators have done (+ audio + transcript). (more…) View the full article

Renault has devised a concept for an autonomous, electric vehicle that would provide city dwellers with an alternative to public transport. Read more View the full article

Second Life showcases the works of Mexican architects and designers at the modernist Casa Möbius on the outskirts of Mexico City as part of the city's design week. Read more

Designed in Hackney: last summer Hackney architects Studio Weave turned an old narrow boat into a floating cinema that toured the canals of east London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: here’s a seasonal look at all our stories featuring snowy scenes and icy weather. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian design brand Kartell has collaborated with Swiss bathroom company Laufen to create a new bathroom collection, which they presented in Milan earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Los Angeles architect Jimenez Lai speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 5:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

New York firm Desai Chia Architects has built a home on Lake Michigan with blackened timber walls and a roof that extends out to shelter an outdoor seating area. Read more View the full article

New flat-pack pieces from St Louis-based furniture company Artifox include a vertical bike rack and a standing desk with a writable surface (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid died three years ago this Sunday. In this exclusive interview, Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher talks about the impact her passing had on the studio, how it has grown, and its plans for the future. Read more

This year had its fair share of provocative stories, from the backlash against concrete to a chair that prevents "manspreading". For our review of the year, digital editor Karen Anderson looks at the 10 of the most polarising. Read more View the full article

Towering steel mushrooms create a layered canopy over the roof of this glazed office block in Tbilisi, Georgia, by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: architect Sami Rintala is constructing a twenty-ton treehouse for Swedish hotel Treehotel. (more…) View the full article

Dive Architects has completed a lake house in an isolated woodland to the north of Stockholm designed to gradually "merge with nature" as the surrounding birch and pine forest grows. Read more View the full article

Paris architecture studio Ateliers O-S Architectes has added a concrete and weathering steel extension to a junior school in the village of Lugrin overlooking Lake Geneva. Read more View the full article

A concrete house in Switzerland by architecture practice DF_DC has an outdoor terrace on a plinth banded by an asymmetrical colonnade of rectangular columns. Read more View the full article

A digitalised fresco depicting soaring cherubs and angered Greek gods is the focal point of luxury fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana's latest store in Rome, which has been created by architecture studio Carbondale. Read more

A pattern of metallic bronze leaves covers the facade of this house in Mayfair, London, by British architecture firm Squire and Partners (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has designed a curving facade carved out of sandstone by a robot for the Delas Frères Winery in France's Rhône Valley. Read more View the full article

Dezeen filmed a series of interviews with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Morphosis has designed a building with slanted walls for the headquarters of athletic clothing brand Lululemon in Vancouver, Canada. Read more View the full article

Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed a holiday home raised on twelve steel stilts on a steep slope near the sea in Mölle, Sweden. Read more View the full article

Order the new Dezeen Book of Ideas together with the London Design Guide by Max Fraser and pay just £20 for both books. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article