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Architects Anton Pramstrahler and Alex Niederkofler have unveiled their proposal for a wooden viewing tower near Bruneck, northern Italy, with a twisted body shaped like a tree trunk (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A sinuous facade of stepped terraces envelops MAD's UNIC apartment tower, which is nearing completion in Paris, France. Read more

Architects Tyler Thomas and Gabbi Sun of Venn Studio have paired "masculine-feminine, hard-soft" details inside this cosmetics store for a unisex beauty brand in Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

Employees of e-ticketing company Eventbrite can have meetings on bleachers and recline in hammocks at the company's new headquarters in downtown San Francisco by Rapt Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Designers in India are rejecting the western canon and instead searching for home-grown approaches to their discipline. Read more View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has designed a building shaped like a field of sand dunes to house the headquarters of Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah. (more…) View the full article

New York City design studio Pelle has created lights that pop through incisions in painted canvas surfaces. Read more

London Design Festival 2015: Vienna studio Mischer'Traxler has filled an ornately decorated room at the V&A museum with glass bulbs containing hand-made insects, which flutter around inside in response to the movement of visitors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ahead of announcing the Dezeen Awards 2019 winners next week, we reveal the projects and studios our readers think should win. Read more

This week, images of Europe's tallest building, the Lakhta Centre in St Petersburg were revealed, and video footage showed a Chinese skyscraper that incorporates a 108-metre high water feature. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Naturehumaine has designed a minimal plywood stair with a children's play nook for this house in Montreal, as part of its renovation and extension. Read more

Designers Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow have created a range of 3D-printed handles to give the ancient multipurpose hand-axe a series of specific functions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this year's designjunction exhibition opens next week from 18 to 22 September as part of the London Design Festival and will feature pop-ups including Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

A single piece of flat, flexible plastic serves as a whole set of measuring spoons in this invention by Polygons Design. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn's Bushwick neighbourhood is set to receive a vast housing development designed as a "European village" by architecture firm ODA New York (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These new shots by Chilean photographer Cristobal Palma reveal the monumental cube structure of the UC Innovation Center – Anacleto Angelini by 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Guadalajara is emerging as Mexico's architecture hotspot, as young firms forgo Mexico City for better chances to test ideas and stand out. Read more View the full article

News: a new London gallery housing the collection of British artist Damien Hirst is set to open next spring in a row of converted and extended theatre warehouses by Caruso St John Architects. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen remembers 2015 Pritzker laureate Frei Otto, who passed away this week at the age of 89, with some of the best projects from his pioneering career as a champion of tensile and membrane architecture and an early adopter of 3D modelling. (more…)

Instagram's Hyperlapse app is popularising time-lapse photography, creating a mass of video content that could change the way we consume images of our environments, reports Alex Wiltshire. (more...) View the full article

Will.i.am's predictions for the future of 3D printing, the 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate and Thomas Heatherwick's newly completed university building (pictured) feature in this week's Dezeen Mail newsletter issue 244. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 244 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail

British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to design a new wing for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. (more…)

Ikea has launched its new indoor gardening product into stores, bringing home hydroponics to a larger market (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York 2016: prolific Japanese studio Nendo has unveiled a collection of furniture and lighting featuring sketch-like outlines that trace the motion of moving elements (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ladders lead to sleeping platforms accommodated beneath the hipped roof of this simple Slovakian lake house, which local studio JRKVC designed without any corridors to utilise the available space (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article