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Illuminated installations inspired by the structures of microorganisms were created for the BUGA festival in Germany by Stoke Newington design studio Loop.pH. (more…) View the full article

This week world famous architects including Sou Fujimoto and Wang Shu designed bus stops for a tiny Austrian village and Snøhetta's September 11 Memorial Museum structure was inaugurated by US president Barack Obama. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Design studio Instant Hutong created changing maps of Beijing’s disappearing ancient alleyways using lenticular printed panels as part of Beijing Design Week. (more…) View the full article

US firm Olson Kundig Architects has created a family cabin with a compact footprint and a tall profile, enabling it to serve as an "intimate gathering place in the trees". Read more View the full article

News: the Rio de Janeiro stadium that was set to host athletics tournaments during the 2016 Olympics has been closed indefinitely due to structural problems. (more...) View the full article

With Stockholm Design Week just around the corner, here's a travel guide featuring our pick of the city's top places to eat, drink, sleep and explore, including a pared-back bistro and a revamped brutalist hotel. Read more

Dezeen promotion: a robotic stand that turns a Samsung Galaxy device into a collaborative smart assistant has taken the top prize in the accessories category of the Samsung Mobile Design Competition. Read more View the full article

The independent spatial research group Forensic Architecture is seeking footage of the fatal fire at Grenfell Tower to create a 3D video that could build a better understanding of how the disaster unfolded. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Jobs has selected five of the top architecture and design opportunities this week, including vacancies at architecture firms Purcell and Gresford Architects in Oxford. Read more

Monolithic blocks of stone mimic man-made quarry landscapes for Grupo Arca's showroom and cultural centre in Guadalajara, Mexico, designed by Esrawe Studio. Read more View the full article

Designer Gitta Gschwendtner talks about making her Bodge Bench for the Stepney Green Design Collection and east London’s “great creative atmosphere” in this movie filmed by Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Practice Architecture worked alongside hemp farmers to erect this zero carbon home in Cambridgeshire, England, from pre-fabricated panels in just two days. Read more View the full article

Music: New York directing collective New Media Limited takes hand-painted clay characters on a Hansel and Gretel-inspired adventure in the music video for Yeasayer's Silly Me track. (more…) View the full article

Sarajevo fashion designer Ljiljana Majkić presents her Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection of garments with exaggerated geometric silhouettes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Panoramic windows puncture the grey brick walls of this guest house, designed by South Korean studio Z Lab to optimise views of Jeju island's picturesque coastline (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

École Boulle graduate Benoît Malta has designed a chair with two legs and a light that switches itself off in an effort to tackle the lack of physical activity in modern lifestyles (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian designer Paola Navone has rolled out a new visual identity for seven McDonald's stores in France, adding clashing prints and pops of colour to their interiors. Read more

News: the architecture of OMA‘s Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam has been criticised following the theft of seven major paintings by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet. (more…) View the full article

One of the world's most influential hoteliers and developers, Ian Schrager redefined nightclubs, invented the boutique hotel and is now rethinking luxury apartments. Dezeen spoke to Schrager about his collaborations with architects and designers including Arata Isozaki, Philippe Starck and Herzog & de Meuron (+ interview + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: cantilevered holiday cabins in Norway, a faceted coastal sauna in Finland and a peculiar black house are among the winners of this year's A' Design Award and Competition. Read more View the full article

As a needle passes over this vinyl globe by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, it plays folk music and national anthems from around the world (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. Read more View the full article

Dutch architecture studio OMA has released images of Wafra Tower, a residential development on the coast of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait City . Read more View the full article

An affordable micro home that takes less than a day to build has just launched in the UK, so we're taking a look at 10 properties around the world that have been completed to an extremely tight budget and offer some solutions to widespread housing shortages. Read more View the full article

Studio Lionne van Deursen is presenting a material research project and lighting range made using bacteria for VDF x Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article