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Colourful strings are threaded around looms to envelop this Barcelona restaurant headed by Catalan chef Ferran Adrià (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Swedish designer Jonas Wagell has created a simple lamp with a concrete base and a brass dimmer switch for Danish furniture brand Menu. (more…) View the full article

Kingston University graduate Aaron Dunkerton has designed an enclosed cavity brick fitting that allows endangered birds to nest in new buildings and garden walls. (more...) View the full article

Gold-coloured tiles cover the walls of this extension to a school in London by architecture studio Hayhurst and Co, while its roofline stretches up to meet the gable end of an adjacent Victorian building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Following two other stories about beach houses by Simon Conder Associates, here's a look back at a black rubber-clad house completed by the architects on Dungeness beach in Kent, England (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair. (more...) View the full article

A capsule that will float passengers to the edge of space and offer views of the Earth's curvature has been designed by British studio Priestmangoode (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata planned this suburban house in Hyogo Prefecture as a cluster of three buildings around a courtyard, based on the traditional city residences of farmers, artisans and merchants. (more...) View the full article

A cabin nestled in a former Hungarian quarry (pictured) and a doughnut-shaped skyscraper feature in this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter, along with the last news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 185 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dutch firm Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten covered the facade of this school in Rotterdam with black and white tiles arranged in patterns that reference typical Dutch interior decoration (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This teardrop shaped portable printer from Israeli studio Zuta Labs wirelessly prints documents from tablets, smartphones or desktop computers. (more...) View the full article

Brightly-coloured etchings appear when visitors scratch the surface of walls and furniture in this installation by Israeli designer Itay Ohaly at Israel's Design Museum Holon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Smiljan Radic's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and an interview with the millionaire businesswoman who transformed Fogo Island with cutting-edge architecture lead this week's Dezeen Mail issue 208. Read on for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 208 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Solid panels, perforated screens and recessed balconies create a patchwork of varying transparency on this tower that rises up from one side of a mixed-use development in Nantes, France, by Antonini Darmon Architectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Comments update: architectural debate commanded the conversation on Dezeen this week, with one reader accusing the Modernist movement of "raping South America", while others were more concerned with defending MAD's design for the George Lucas museum from lazy criticism. (more...) View the full article

Nineteen London-based designers including Dominic Wilcox and Paul Priestman have created miniature fantasy rooms for an exhibition of Dolls' Houses at the city's Museum of Childhood. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Sinato raised the ceiling level inside this Japanese apartment to create a mezzanine reading room that can be glimpsed through a narrow opening (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British architect Richard Rogers has gifted the seminal Wimbledon home he designed for his parents in the late 1960s to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. (more…)

Russian artist Dmitry Morozov has designed a prototype truncheon that sends a text message to the police officer's mother every time it is used, in an attempt to prevent police brutality (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

UK studio Caruso St John has created Gagosian's third and largest gallery in London, featuring dark oak flooring and a glass ceiling, which opened ahead of this week's Frieze art fair (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Glasgow watch brand Paulin has launched the C201 Chronograph, a new take on one of its most popular analogue designs. (more…) View the full article

New York fashion house Threeasfour has unveiled a pair of 3D-printed dresses based on biological forms and textures. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Santiago Calatrava, the firm behind New York's World Trade Center Transportation Hub (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior project manager/architect at Shimoda Design Group in Los Angeles, which is behind projects including a timber-framed office campus with dramatic double-height spaces (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: leading architects including Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Richard Rogers and Daniel Libeskind have paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid in a video created by Dezeen and Architizer. (more…) View the full article