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A concert hall and conference centre by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson is under construction in Reykjavík, Iceland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Copenhagen studio Henning Larsen Architects have completed a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík, Iceland, in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik, Iceland, by Henning Larsen Architects and artist Olafur Eliasson has won this year's European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award. (more...) View the full article

New York City's Pratt Institute has named British architect and professor Harriet Harriss as the next dean of its school of architecture. Read more

Harriet Harriss, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York, will speak about the future of design education at Dezeen Day on 30 October. Read more

French designer Eric Jourdan has designed a range of seating for French design brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Crosby Studios' founder Harry Nuriev has teamed up with Balenciaga to create a transparent vinyl couch filled with worn and discarded clothing from the French fashion brand. Read more View the full article

Wooden boxes on wheels fold open to reveal beds inside this minimal apartment in Bolzano, Italy, by Harry Thaler Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mark Lee of architecture firm Johnston Marklee has been appointed as the chair of the architecture department at Harvard University's graduate design school. Read more View the full article

Graduate students from Harvard University have launched a company that designs, builds and rents out wilderness micro cabins to urban residents "looking to escape the digital grind and test drive tiny-house living" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British firm Hopkins Architects and US studios Bruner/Cott Architects and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates have overhauled a massive, 1960s building at Harvard University, adding in living walls and glazed rooms. Read more

Dezeen promotion: designer David Oxley has launched a slender, adjustable LED task lamp on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Feuerstein Quagliara has integrated a series of covered outdoor spaces into this country home, which is designed to provide "visual and physical connections to the landscape from every room". Read more View the full article

A1Architects of Prague designed this little tea house with a tall roof in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival: London-based industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed stackable wooden seating evoking traditional school furniture for Decode London. (more…) View the full article

Birds’ nests inspired the facade of this Singapore cafe by designers Outofstock, where eggs are served all day. (more…) View the full article

Design collective Outofstock have completed the interiors for a restaurant in Singapore, where the windows are covered by wooden panels with egg-shaped cutouts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Innsbruck architect Daniel Fügenschuh has completed a concrete and glass extension to a school at a former monastery in Rattenberg, Tyrol. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bernardo Bader Architects used locally sourced spruce, fir and elm to clad the interior and exterior of this rural cabin in Lower Austria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The steps of an adjacent vineyard inspired Dutch architects UNStudio to generate the inclining profile of this house in Stuttgart (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

KHBT of London and Berlin has doubled the size a 1970s family house in Offenbach, Germany, by wrapping a timber-clad extension around the walls and over the roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: the glazed walls of this pavilion-like house in southern Germany are sandwiched between a roof and plinth that mirror one another (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent feature about buildings clad in weathered steel, here’s an archive in Essen, Germany, that is clad in Corten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A square window protrudes from the gabled facade of this house in Germany by Stuttgart architects (se)arch (+ slideshow + photographs by Zooey Braun) (more...) View the full article

Zurich photographer Bruno Helbling has sent us his photos of a house in Feldkrich, Austria, by Austrian studio Marte.Marte. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article