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Slideshow feature: the winner of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize will be revealed tomorrow at a ceremony in Manchester, but in the meantime here’s a reminder of the six buildings nominated, which include the London Olympic Stadium, a botanical laboratory and two projects by OMA. (more…) View the full article

Travellers visting the Mexican town of Tepoztlan can spend a few nights, months or even years at this three-armed concrete guesthouse by architects Cadaval & Sola-Morales (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we’re giving readers the chance to win one of five prints by UK designers Dorothy that feature bands and songs with colours in their names next to corresponding hues on the colour wheel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The asymmetric fringing on these wool rugs by Swiss design trio BKS makes them appear to pop out from the floor like drawings of 3D shapes. (more...) View the full article

Overhanging floor plates delineate the levels of this house in the woods outside Utrecht by architecture studios Powerhouse Company and RAU (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: free registration is open for Clerkenwell Design Week 2013, taking place from 21 to 23 May in London. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and UK designers Dorothy have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five prints that group Hollywood actors into constellations named after films they have starred in (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Austrian designer Robert Stadler references eroding columns of architectural ruins and contemporary construction processes in furniture pieces for an exhibition at Paris' Carpenters Workshop Gallery opening this weekend (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The curved plasterwork of typical Mediterranean architecture influenced the smooth white interior of this store for skin and haircare brand Aesop in London's Covent Garden. (more...) View the full article

Forming a new end to a 1960s housing estate in London, this timber-framed house extension was designed to look contemporary but also to match the aesthetic of the original block (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Two towering walls of Corten steel lead into this four-bedroom guesthouse at the Cloudy Bay winery in Marlborough, New Zealand (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish firm Tengbom has designed a ten square-metre wooden house for students. (more...) View the full article

Movie: Indian architect Sandeep Khosla explains the importance of outdoor learning at DPS Kindergarten School in Bangalore, India, which won the education category at last month's Inside Festival in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

This children's library with rammed earth walls in Burundi, Africa, was built by Belgian studio BC Architects and members of the local community, according to an open-source design template (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2014: Italian designer Luca Nichetto and Portuguese furniture brand De La Espada have launched a lounge chair as the first product from a new collection. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: created for Lady Gaga, the Volantis is the world's first flying dress and heralds the beginning of a new era for human flight, says designer Benjamin Males. (more...) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week: five teams from London design collective Okay Studio have created furniture and products from different hardwood varieties for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion based on the lightweight shell encasing the wings and abdomen of a beetle is the second structure revealed this week from the team of architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: a Dutch firm specialising in floating structures has unveiled plans for a hotel shaped like a snowflake with a glass roof so that guests can watch the Northern Lights while bobbing off the coast of Tromso in Norway. (more...) View the full article

The slope of an auditorium juts out from the side of this library by Spanish architect Óscar Pedrós to provide a covered space beneath for open-air performances (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Belgian firm Urbain Architectencollectief has refurbished a former brick fire station building and added an extra storey to house additional facilities for a cultural centre in the city of Kortrijk (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the Pantheon-like interior of Rem Koolhaas and OMA's arts and culture centre in Miami Beach has been revealed by developer Faena during this year's Art Basel and Design Miami events (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Mexican design studio Peca has launched a collection of candle holders made from marble spheres that can be split in two. (more…)

Zaha Hadid's controversial plans for the 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo have been scrapped. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: Chicago may have been the birthplace of the modern skyscraper, but the city is now more interested in landscape projects that make New York's High Line look like small fry, says Jonathan D Solomon, director of architecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (more…) View the full article