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Mexican-American firm Gracia Studio has completed a single-family home in the city of Tijuana that comprises a weathering-steel volume perched atop a monolithic concrete ground floor. Read more View the full article

Paris 2012: more from Maison & Objet in Paris this week – Japanese studio Torafu Architects present two new versions of their paper containers that can be stretched into bowls or vases for French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Graeme Nicholls Architects has extrapolated the form of a former greyhound stadium for a proposed oval of red-brick housing by Ibrox football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more View the full article

Graffiti depicting gangly imaginary creatures by street artist Phlegm is currently on show at an east London gallery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Advertising agency BETC has taken a huge derelict flour and grain warehouse on the banks of the Canal de l'Ourcq in Paris and transformed it into offices boasting a large roof garden and plant-filled courtyards (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: graphic design magazine Grafik has ceased publication as its owners have gone into administration. More information on the Grafik blog </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Grafik magazine is to cease publication once again. The graphic design magazine only reopened under new ownership in February this year after its previous owners went into administration in June 2010. Read a statement from the magazine’s editorial team and owners Woodbridge & Rees here and read critic Rick Poynor’s take on the news here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the second Berlin city centre proposal revealed today is a cluster of five towers by Graft and Kleihues + Kleihues Architekten, which will be connected on their upper levels by a chain of bridges. (more...) View the full article

Stone colonnades frame the open-plan interiors of Town House, the mixed-use teaching building by Grafton Architects for Kingston University in London. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: Dublin studio Grafton Architects has installed rows of textured concrete monoliths inside the V&A museum's tapestry gallery, referencing an ancient script and prehistoric standing stones. (more…) View the full article

Dublin firm Grafton Architects has designed a timber research centre for the University of Arkansas' architecture school, which will mark its first project in the US when complete. Read more View the full article

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, are the first all-woman pair to be awarded the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. Read more

Grafton Architects has been selected to design a new faculty building for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in Holborn, seeing off a shortlist of prestigious firms. (more…) View the full article

Wooden decor and glass vitrines feature in this cannabis shop in the Pacific Northwest, which was designed by US studio Graham Baba Architects to provide a "personalised, leisurely browsing experience". Read more View the full article

US studio Graham Baba Architects took cues from speakeasies and adventure novels to create a dimly lit bar in Seattle filled with oddities and nature-inspired decor, such as dried plants and taxidermy. Read more

American studio Graham Baba Architects has used perforated metal, blackened steel and salvaged wood to create an industrial-style, mixed-use building in Seattle, which includes a beer hall. Read more

The fibrous metallic garments in Central Saint Martins graduate Graham Fan's London Fashion Week collection are reminiscent of wire brushes used for cleaning the dishes. (more...) View the full article

Liverpool-based Granby Workshop has made a series of tableware products from the industrial and post-consumer clay waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill. Read more

These cabinets by Swedish designer Mathieu Gustafsson and furniture maker Niklas Karlsson are inspired by the use of woven rattan and brass clasps in vintage handbags. (more...) View the full article

Vienna Design Week: Vienna designers Dottings presented a series of coffee cups made of recycled aluminium coffee capsules for coffee brand Nespresso in Vienna last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An orange staircase zigzags back and forth across the atrium of this science faculty building that Canadian firm Saucier + Perrotte Architectes has completed for a Quebec college (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeenwire: the renovation of the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island by David Chipperfield Architects and Julian Harrap Architects has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010. See press release below. See also: our earlier story about the project (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A forest of timber columns and a stone fireplace feign a woodland campsite inside a visitor centre at the Rocky Mountains. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Graphic design studio GrandArmy has overhauled the signage and packaging for the United States Postal Service in the "largest retail rebrand project in American history" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stacked boxes clad in stone perch on a rocky outcrop overlooking Durgam Cheruvu Lake in Hyderabad in this house designed by architecture studio Collective Project. Read more