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A screwdriver, drawer knobs and a pipe are among the objects that Berkeley studio Envelope A+D has used as beer taps in this industrial-style restaurant in San Francisco. Read more

Architects Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo have completed a bus station in the Spanish town of Santa Pola, featuring a huge metal roof that tapers to form very thin edges on each side (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio Tato Architects has built a house in the town of Sonobe, Japan, with a sunroom that can be opened up to the garden by sliding open a huge corrugated polycarbonate wall. Read more

This stepped timber bridge was designed by a team of architecture students from the University of Hong Kong to provide a meeting place for residents of a rural community in southern China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A giant model of London's 17th-century cityscape has been set ablaze on the River Thames to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Construction has begun on the Discovery Building for the British Antarctic Survey's research station in Antarctica, designed by Hugh Broughton Architects and Ramboll with NORR and Turner & Townsend. Read more View the full article

British studio Hugh Strange Architects has transformed an agricultural barn in Somerset, England, into a family archive building by inserting a new timber structure within the dilapidated brick and stone shell. (more...) View the full article

Music: French director Hugo Moreno presents an animated urban landscape that blends ancient Mesopotamian and mid-century Modern architecture in this music video for Art Department's track Walls. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Vertical yellow and grey stripes decorate the exterior of this family house in Mexico by León firm tactic-a (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designers Hulger and Samuel Wilkinson have been awarded the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award for their Plumen 001 light bulb (above) at a ceremony at the Design Museum in London today. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

East London design brand Hulger has launched a second design for its award-winning Plumen low-energy lightbulbs. (more...) View the full article

Beijing architects META-Project have completed an exhibition centre on the beach of a former fishing village in China that is now developing into a summer holiday destination (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Music Project: director Hugo Arcier created the moving shapes in this music video for French band HNN by manipulating photo-realistic renders of human bodies. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art student Eliot Postma has created a conceptual project where pets could be used to harvest human organs for transplants. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designing a new housing model for the masses is the most urgent task facing architects today says Jack Self, who has co-curated an exhibition looking at the data behind today's average home. Read more

Humans will need to digitally enhance our brains if we are to remain relevant in a future filled with artificial intelligences, according to Tesla founder Elon Musk. Read more View the full article

A layer of grasses, herbs and flowers blankets the roof of this hump-shaped house near Reims, France, by architect Patrick Nadeau (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

JDS Architects used staggered balconies to create a cascade of cubes across the facade of this Seoul officetel – a kind of housing and workplace hybrid typical in South Korea (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Waind Gohil and Potter Architects has created a sculptural staircase, which was fabricated off-site and assembled like a puzzle, as the centrepiece of a house in London. Read more View the full article

Hungary has revealed plans to build a new carbon-neutral greenhouse-filled farming city that will be powered by renewable energy sources. Read more

This extension to a mill-keeper’s house on the Norfolk Broads by London studio Acme has been awarded the RIBA Manser Medal 2010 for the best new house in the UK. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Hunter bags by German label Agnes Nordenholz are made from free-grazing sheep fur and loden – a traditional, waterproof Austrian fabric made from wool. Read more View the full article

These wallets and spectacle cases are each made of a single piece of leather that’s been folded into shape then hardened in boiling water. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hunters Point Library in New York's Long Island City by Steven Holl Architects has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its "total disregard" of people with mobility disabilities. Read more View the full article

This twisted residential tower clad in zinc-coated steel is part of a mixed use development proposal in Shoreditch, London by Amanda Levete Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article