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American studio Heliotrope Architects has created a holiday home for art gallery owners that is wrapped in dark metal, punctured with white stucco and large stretches of glass. Read more View the full article

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

Wrapped in a latticed glass and steel skin, this ring-shaped building by architecture studio BIAD UFO provides the new headquarters for Chinese broadcaster Phoenix Television (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian designer Tom Fereday has developed a faceted cement breeze block that can be flipped over and combined in various ways to create angled surfaces. Read more

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

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: this new movie by White Arkitetker reveals the firm's masterplan for the relocation of an entire Swedish city, before continued iron ore mining destabilises the ground beneath it (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This flat-packed delivery truck is designed to be easily disassembled and packed away in under 12 hours (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen speaks to Google's head of hardware design Ivy Ross, trend forecaster Li Edelkoort and The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond about how technology and lifestyle design can become more integrated. Tune in from 4:00pm UK time to watch the talk live from Milan. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: New York lighting designer Lindsey Adelman explains how she used motors to create a vibrating chandelier for Nike in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the sports brand's The Nature of Motion exhibition. (more…) View the full article

Movie: in our final video interview with Hella Jongerius, the Dutch designer explains why she prefers to work with a small group of clients and says that building a long-term relationship with a company is a more sustainable way of working than designing collections for different brands each year. (more...) View the full article

Indian studio Khosla Associates used a modular concrete framework, bold colours and perforated terracotta screens to create this climate-sensitive kindergarten in Bangalore, which topped the education category at the Inside Festival awards earlier this month. (more...) View the full article

Awarding the Pritzker Prize to little-known RCR Arquitectes is a quiet rebuke against the superficiality and greed that has dominated architectural culture around the world, says Catherine Slessor in this Opinion column. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a graduate architect to join Australian studio Koichi Takada, whose projects include a Sydney restaurant with a louvred timber canopy. More › View the full article

Following the popularity of a house extension that curves around a tree, we've created a new Pinterest board filled with extensions to residential buildings. See our new residential extensions Pinterest board » Over 100,000 people now follow us on Pinterest - join them here. View the full article

Recycled water from a ground-floor fish pond is used to nourish fruit trees on the roof of a house in Danang City, Vietnam, by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Read more View the full article

Thirteen oak trees are planted in a courtyard at the centre of this residence by Roof Arquitectos, which sits in the hilly landscape outside the Mexican city of Morelia (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

American studio Tighe Architecture has created a sculptural residence on a tree-studded hillside in Los Angeles that is wrapped in plaster and large stretches of glass. Read more View the full article

Philippe Starck's divisible Paris 2024 Olympics medals and Jim Olson's recently updated cabin in Washington are both in the latest edition of Dezeen Mail, our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Cool Cool Seaside is a pavilion made from three raised shipping containers, which provides shelter for two basketball courts in a square near the docks of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Read more

Slideshow: this small twisted tower is one of the six artists’ studios that Saunders Architecture of Norway are constructing on Fogo Island off the coast of Canada. (more…) View the full article

The windows of this extension to a 1920s bungalow in Tasmania sit within faceted timber reveals, contrasting with the white-painted weatherboard walls (+ slideshow). (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

American architect Steven Holl has just been given the go-ahead to build a pair of skyscrapers linked by a cycle and pedestrian bridge 65 metres above Copenhagen's harbour. But he's not the only one with ambitious plans for linked towers. Other recent examples include proposals for a trio of plant-covered buildings by Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia and a pair of residential buildings in London bridged by a transparent swimming pool. See more linked towers on Dezeen » View the full article

Milan 2016: Dutch designer Frans Willigers has created a hybrid chair and writing desk that he sees as a replacement for traditional office furniture. (more…) View the full article

Writer Geoff Manaugh and designer John Becker have imagined a scenario in which genetically modified bees could be trained to print detailed concrete structures rather than produce honey (+ interview). (more...) View the full article