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Acclaimed architect Neave Brown, a "pioneer of quality public housing", has died following a battle with cancer. Read more View the full article

The owner of a construction company in Houston has collaborated with Seattle architects Suyama Peterson Deguchi to create a Japanese-influenced home that she built for herself. Read more View the full article

News: Steven Holl has been appointed to rework the campus of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts and will add new buildings to offer a "complementary contrast" to structures by Mies van der Rohe and Rafael Moneo. (more…) View the full article

This bicylce helmet designed by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin erupts from its hiding place inside a scarf when triggered by abnormal movements. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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

News: architect Norman Foster has revealed how late Apple CEO Steve Jobs called him "out of the blue" in 2009 to invite him to design the Apple Campus 2 with the words "Hi Norman, I need some help." (more...) View the full article

These glowing circular swings have been installed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture to brighten up a patch of Boston parkland and to encourage children to play outside the confines of the playground (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: American studio Höweler + Yoon Architecture has won the Audi Urban Future Award 2012 with a concept to combine individual and public transport in the region between Boston and Washington nicknamed BosWash (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

David Mikhail Architects won the New London Architecture‘s Don’t Move, Improve! competition with this project extending a London terraced house by just one metre. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

TV-free guest suites and an in-house yoga studio are some of the ways that hotelier Charlotte Gomez de Orozco has tried to channel a sense of serenity inside this Parisian hotel, which is decked out in natural hues. Read more View the full article

Hølte, a company that offers bespoke fronts for IKEA kitchens, has unveiled a new design studio and showroom in London's Hackney. Read more

In this exclusive video interview filmed as part of our high-tech architecture series, British architect Norman Foster explains how the headquarters he designed for HSBC in Hong Kong in the 1980s transformed his architecture firm into a global brand. Read more View the full article

Beijing studio Sunlay Design have designed this building to house the headquarters for a technology park in Huainan City, Anhui Province, China. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese firm MAD has today unveiled plans for a village of towering apartment blocks beside the Huangshan Mountains in eastern China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Huawei unveils Mate X foldable smartphone Huawei has released its Mate X folding smartphone with a flexible screen that bends around the exterior of the device. Read more

Luxury watch brand Hublot has released its first smartwatch, which will be worn by referees at the FIFA World Cup in Russia this June. Read more View the full article

Curvy and bent wooden strips are laid out to resemble a wave in this installation in Maine, created by local designers Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B Nguyen. Read more

Hudson Architects has transformed a heritage-listed building in eastern England into an architecture school, featuring a staircase that references an ornately patterned original balustrade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office has designed the interior of a food-photography studio in Tokyo. (more…) View the full article

The mid-century-modern architecture of a nearby Marcel Breuer residence provided cues for a family home by Hufft Architects in Missouri. Read more View the full article

The armrests of these chairs by Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune reach out as though asking for a hug. (more...) View the full article

A huge, round opening is carved above the outdoor dining area of this house in southern France by Pascual Architect, which also features large glass doors that swing open to the garden. Read more View the full article

Breaking news: Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris has caught fire, with flames visible from the roof and firefighters attending the scene. Read more

Large glowing letters spell out the Portuguese Spanish word for tea at the front of this tea house in Brazil by architects Estudio 30 51, the third cafe we've featured in the last seven days (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture education in India is in crisis with a shortage of teachers, overcrowded classes and widespread cheating by students, according to architects in the country. Read more View the full article