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News: the Scottish Government is working with the Glasgow School of Art to provide support for students who were handing in their final projects at the Mackintosh-designed building when it caught fire last Friday. (more...) View the full article

The Daedalum maze, which consists of 19 interconnected egg-shaped domes made from translucent material, is the latest piece of inflatable architecture designed by Alan Parkinson, founder of Architects of Air. Read more

This concrete coastal house in Brazil was designed by locally based Martins Lucena Architects to capture prevailing breezes and minimise solar heat gain. Read more

Barbie has listed her glamorous Malibu beach house on Airbnb for a lucky holidaymaker to enjoy this month. Read more View the full article

News: as construction of BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant continues in Copenhagen, a video has surfaced showing a successful trial for the building's smoke ring-blowing chimney (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Which are the architects, designers, brands, schools and events that Dezeen readers most wanted to read about over the last year? We'll reveal the answers when we launch Dezeen Hot List on 9 November. Read more View the full article

Hamburg studio Asdfg Architekten has converted a 19th-century miller's house in Berlin into a modern family home arranged around original brick walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Bicycle thieves will need a stomach of steel to thwart the SkunkLock, which makes anyone who attempts to cut through it throw up. Read more View the full article

This week a staircase for dogs has been our most popular on Dezeen and most-shared on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. (more…) View the full article

These images offer a peek at amenity spaces available to residents moving into Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed skyscraper in Tribeca, New York. Read more View the full article

Opinion: a pizza crust stuffed with a hot dog could be the ultimate expression of contemporary design culture, suggests Sam Jacob in this week's opinion column. (more...) View the full article

Huge clerestory windows reveal the exposed timber frame of this school sports hall in Kobe, Japan, by architecture firm Takenaka Corporation (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: British artist Alex Chinneck has revealed a 35-metre-tall latticed steel sculpture resembling an upside-down electricity pylon for this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week, Dezeen interviewed architect David Adjaye at the opening of his Making Memory exhibition, where he said that architects need to work to counter false narratives. Read more

Barcelona's new design museum is an angular metal-clad structure designed by local studio MBM Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Highlights from this time last year include a maze filled with mirrors, an electric car powered by jet engines and a hotel room that looks more like a bird’s nest. (more…) View the full article

The gently curved backrest and seat of Constance Guisset's stackable steel chair for French brand Matière Grise is based on the contoured form of Batman's mask and cape. Read more View the full article

Open Architecture is building a concert hall in a valley north of Beijing, designed to look "as if a strange and prehistoric boulder had fallen there long ago". Read more

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a middleweight industrial designer for London designer Benjamin Hubert, whose screen of branching modular structures called Amass is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. 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

The number of architecture projects comprising series of cubes or cuboids to look like digital pixels, or half-finished games of Jenga, is stacking up fast. Here are 10 examples from studios including Herzog & de Meuron, OMA and MVRDV. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: tiles by Dutch manufacturer Hakwood have been used to create a striking monochromatic kitchen with tricoloured floors inside a home in the Netherlands. Read more

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

These stylised renderings depict a house designed by Hampshire-based Strom Architects for the English town of Swanage, with a cantilevered section that shelters a parking space (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed Office 543 around an elliptic meeting room with granite walls, which is a private space among the glass-walled offices. Read more View the full article