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Five projects are in the running for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2017, including a London housing scheme by Alison Brooks and a church building in Ribe by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects that shelters 12th-century ruins. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: Amsterdam designer Roel Huisman has created a desk with an ash lamp and glass vase embedded in a thick slab of resin. (more...) View the full article

This pair of gabled homes in Winchester, England, are described by architect Adam Knibb as "contemporary timber pods on top of a dark monolithic base" (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Phoenix architecture studio The Ranch Mine based this canal-side home on the missions built in the American West over 200 years ago. Read more View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its proposal for a linear museum complex in Hangzhou that will sit beside China's Grand Canal and celebrate the history of the artificial river. Read more View the full article

Studio Alexander Fehre used different wall and ceiling finishes to define the spaces of this 45-square-metre flat in central London. (more…) View the full article

Self-contained micro homes are being installed inside vacant buildings across London as part of an initiative called The SHED Project, which features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio yHa Architects has inserted a steel cuboid, wall and stairs inside this former rice mill in Saga Prefecture to create a sake tasting and exhibition space. Read more View the full article

A+Awards: brickwork assembled by robots forms wavy facades across these apartment blocks in Switzerland – the latest project in our series about winners from this year's Architizer A+Awards (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Friends and family of late fashion designer Richard Nicoll have worked alongside Pantone to develop a colour in his honour, which was used by Roksanda Ilincic at her Autumn Winter 2017 show. Read more View the full article

Shanghai studio Ares Partners has converted a group of disused farm buildings into a boutique resort nestled among the rocky pinnacles of China's Yangshuo County (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are debating CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Andrew Morlet's statement that plastic can be used sustainably. Read more View the full article

Artist Max Siedentopf caused outrage with his depiction of people wearing various everyday items as coronavirus masks. Here are five of the artist's provocative works. Read more View the full article

Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a "prototype city of the future" with wooden buildings and autonomous vehicles for Japanese car company Toyota near Mount Fuji in Japan. Read more View the full article

Movie: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio in Milan, curator Lowie Vermeersch talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the programme of events for this year’s Interieur Biennale, which will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20-28 October and feature projects from the likes of Ross Lovegrove, Troika and Jurgen Bey. (more…) View the full article

This boxy house in Kyoto by Yoshihiro Yamamoto Architects Atelier (YYAA) has a narrow body intended to recreate the proportions of Japanese government-built apartments of the 1950s, 60s and 70s (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This inflatable bag by Royal College of Art graduate Peng You is designed to keep electronic devices safe from knocks and bumps. (more...) View the full article

Faded frescos offer a backdrop to contemporary furnishings in Brolettouno Apartment, a holiday home in northern Italy that has been refurbished by local studio Archiplan. Read more View the full article

London-based architecture firm Tonkin Liu has revealed its plans for a family of fritted-glass skyscrapers, which will be arranged around a central plaza in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Promotion: NeueHouse is hosting a series of conversations with prominent members of LA's creative community, including philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen, architect Kulapat Yantrasast, author Josh Kun and futurist Liam Young, to mark the opening of its latest location in Downtown Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

This house in Mexico by Japanese architect Tadao Ando boasts a swimming pool that projects from a hillside and concrete walls that frame views of the Sierra Las Mitras mountains (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Mumbai design studio MuseLAB has prioritised sensual appeal over a singular design language for its debut 13-piece furniture collection. Read more View the full article

From lofty living rooms to towering lightwells, this week’s Pinterest roundup focuses on double-height interiors that use elevated ceilings to their advantage. Read more View the full article

California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies is developing a plant that can store excess carbon dioxide in its roots, in a bid to curb the effects of climate change. Read more

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