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These images offer a peek at amenity spaces available to residents moving into Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed skyscraper in Tribeca, New York. Read more View the full article

News: here's a preview of the nearly completed Pérez Art Museum Miami by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which opens tomorrow in downtown Miami and which suggests a new "kind of vernacular" for the city, according to Jacques Herzog (+ slideshow + photography is by Iwan Baan). (more...) View the full article

The Tour Triangle, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is poised to become the first skyscraper built in central Paris since 1973, after winning a lengthy court battle. Read more

A former horse stables on the grounds of Tuscan art retreat Villa Lena has been renovated by architecture studio Hesselbrand to accommodate a series of rustic guest suites. Read more

Dutch practice HVDN architecten have completed this wood and aluminium-clad building to temporarily house a school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A nineteenth century prison in the Netherlands has been converted into a boutique hotel where guests sleep in the former cells. (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio Bureau B+B have completed a house on a country estate in the Netherlands with a thatched roof but no eves. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Tim Vinke has created a mobile office made up of a desk and two chairs that fit together like pieces of a puzzle to form a trolley. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These brick-clad apartments in Utrecht, the Netherlands, by Dutch firm Bakers Architecten appear to float above a curtain wall of glazing. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Heusch has sought to create a continuous experience between the indoor and outdoor spaces of this overhauled mid-century residence, located high up in the Santa Monica Mountains. Read more View the full article

Australian architects MPRDG were inspired by the shapes of tree branches to add a privacy screen across the glass-fronted upper storey of this family house in the Sydney suburb of Bronte (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Jonathan Woolf Architects used chiselled limestone to construct this family home near Nairobi, which is built into a hillside and topped by a heavy sloping roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swedish sex toy company Lelo has developed a condom with hexagonal-shaped cells that the company claims will tear less than others on the market. (more…) View the full article

This concrete home shaded by a wooden screen by Chilean architects Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido is elevated off the ground, allowing plants to grow underneath the structure. Read more View the full article

Here are the first photographs of Zaha Hadid's almost-completed Heydar Aliyev Centre, an undulating cultural centre in Baku, Azerbaijan. (more...) View the full article

UCL architecture student Simon Kennedy has sent us his photographs of a deserted south London housing estate awaiting demolition. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

HHF Architects and Sadar + Vuga have won a competition to adapt and reconstruct Montenegro's Dom Revolucije, a monument to Socialist revolution that has lain unfinished and derelict for almost 30 years. (more…) View the full article

A private balcony is concealed behind the black galvanised steel exterior of this house in Yao, Japan, by architect Yosuke Ichii. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Matali Crasset has created this Paris hotel in collaboration with Patrick Elouarghi and Philippe Chatelet, where visitors check-in, order food and exchange tips on the city with other guests via the hotel’s online system and a plethora of screens throughout the building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: products made from HI-MACS acrylic stone will be exhibited at 100% Design trade fair at Earls Court during the London Design Festival from Wednesday. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: LG Hausys has developed a version of its Hi-Macs solid surface material that can be customised with any suitable 3D pattern to meet the individual needs of interior projects. Read more View the full article

Japanese studios Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro have returned to a kindergarten building in Kanagawa Prefecture they designed 42 years ago, updating it to suit modern teaching styles (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Hibinosekkei has added a small wooden playhouse to a kindergarten in the city of Saga to encourage independent domestic role play. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: UK design organisation Hidden Art is in danger of losing half its funding and may be forced to close. See press release below (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school near in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo. Read more View the full article