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Big pine shingles cover the curving walls of this woodland trail centre by Swedish architecture firm Tengbom, designed to mimic the form and texture of a pine cone (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This small showroom by Taylor and Miller for a Brooklyn-based candle and fragrance company is defined by suspended walls made of wood and steel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Tokyo architect Fumihiko Sano used Japanese design brand Muji's popular steel shelving system to create this room-like installation for an exhibition exploring standard units of measurement (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: when it comes to headline-grabbing proposals, Bjarke Ingels and BIG are becoming increasingly hard to beat – and increasingly divisive among critics. Aaron Betsky explains why he's part of the BIG fan club. (more…) View the full article

London-based studio Bompas & Parr has created two kinds of "chameleon bloom" for Valentine's Day that change colour when exposed to certain temperatures (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Alexander Taylor has made a prototype for customisable Adidas trainers based on an industrial sewing technique used to manufacture heated car seats (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail features a Valentine's Day gift guide, BIG's latest skyscraper for New York and a movie of an eagle taking out a "hostile drone". Read Dezeen Mail issue 292 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Inside Festival: Nik Karalis of Woods Bagot explains how his team converted three floors of an iconic 1960s office building into a sales suite for a new residential development in Hawaii (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Jan Hendzel Studio has designed a range of wooden furnishings for a pop-up cafe at Camberwell College of Arts, forming part of the £62 million redevelopment of the southeast London campus (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Swedish brand VOID Watches to offer five readers the chance to win a V02MKII timepiece, which the brand describes as "Clever. Not Smart". (more…) View the full article

Rotterdam firm MVRDV has revealed plans to overhaul 600 hectares of Caen, the French city where William the Conqueror built his castle, creating housing, offices and numerous leisure attractions (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a series of talks hosted by industry figures including design duo Barber & Osgerby (pictured) and OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu takes place as part of Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair this week. (more…) View the full article

Bjarke Ingels Group has released a conceptual design for its latest project in New York, an office skyscraper wrapped in a ribbon of green terraces (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels says he is "honestly impressed" by young job applicant Étienne Duval, whose covering letter is an animated rap that has become a YouTube sensation (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Each stone that makes up this fan-shaped memorial by Koishikawa Architects represents one of the 18,000 victims of Japan's most powerful earthquake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Sou Fujimoto, David Chipperfield and Manuelle Gautrand are among the winning architects in a competition seeking innovative design proposals for 23 sites across the French capital (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Francis Bitonti Studio and PK Arkitektar in Reykjavík, whose projects include turf layered cottages in south-west Iceland (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with the University of Miami School of Architecture, Innocent Drinks, Grimshaw and more... (more…) View the full article

Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' new wing for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, a project that was first announced in 2013 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

It's Chinese New Year! To celebrate the beginning of the year of the monkey, we're revisiting some of the best new Chinese architecture on Dezeen, including the world's second tallest building, a sinuous opera house by MAD, and Kengo Kuma's folk-art galleries for the China Academy of Arts. See more new Chinese architecture » View the full article

Architecture studio Hall McKnight has completed a house bridging a stream in Holywood, Northern Ireland, which also features a colonnade-like facade incorporating tall vertical windows (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A concert hall in Poland featuring concrete and crushed brickwork impressed readers this week, so we've visited the Dezeen archives to create a Pinterest board full of awe-inspiring performance venues. Others include a spiky building shortlisted for last year's Mies van der Rohe Award and Herzog & de Meuron's part-completed Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more concert halls in our archives View the full article

Vertical logs cover the gabled elevations of this rural hotel in southern Portugal, designed by Lisbon studio Future Architecture Thinking (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Hungarian designer Zsofia Kollar has used human hair to create a series of scented objects, including a wall hanging and a U-shaped necklace (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: audiovisual artist Kamiel Rongen used his own frozen urine to create visuals in the music video for Dutch musician Marle Thomson's debut track Levitation (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Movie: gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones describes the reflective aluminium Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, created by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009, as "strange and gorgeous" in this exclusive movie. (more…) View the full article