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Architecture in Vietnam is changing thanks to a growing economy and thriving tourism industry. Discover over 40 examples on our new Vietnamese architecture Pinterest board, including a 460-metre-high skyscraper and a kindergarten featuring a knot-shaped roof where children can grow vegetables. Follow us on Pinterest | See more architecture in Vietnam 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

Danish designer Simon Legald has added a two-seater sofa to his Era lounge collection for Normann Copenhagen, responding to market demand for smaller sofas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: tanks, helicopters and jets chase a group of people across a shifting landscape of colourful circles in this animated music video directed by London duo Bif for electronic artist Azel Phara (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

By lowering the ceiling of this London home, Scenario Architecture has created a view between the living room and the roof terrace, allowing parents to keep an eye on their children when they play outside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

LA-based architect and visual artist Dan Huh has created a set of images that depict Paul Rudolph's original design for the celebrated Milam Residence in Florida (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A Back to the Future-style hoverboard (pictured), Kengo Kuma's first public commission in America and 11 lost icons of Postmodern architecture feature in Dezeen Mail issue 265. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 265 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has redesigned the set-top box, creating a matt black cube for French TV network Canal+ (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Super Mario and the Cheshire Cat are among the characters featured in these renderings produced by Austrian studio Madame Mohr as part of a competition proposal for a new subway line in Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Kenjiro Sano, who unveiled his logo design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last month, has denied allegations that he copied the design from an emblem for a Belgian theatre. (more…) View the full article

A full-height window and a projecting seating nook interrupt the facade of this suburban Melbourne house created by local studio Pleysier Perkins in a former warehouse (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Graduate shows 2015: this device by Royal College of Art graduate Gemma Roper allows the user to stream music according to the pace and rhythm they want to listen to (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Perched on a sloped site along the Hudson River in New York, this house by Foz Design capitalises on its picturesque setting with a living room overlooking the water and an infinity pool facing the woods (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Chilean firm Pezo Von Ellrichshausen and Nigeria-based Kunlé Adeyemi are among the architects collaborating with Chicago design schools to create lakefront kiosks for the city's first design biennial. (more…) View the full article

MVRDV co-founder Jacob van Rijs explains how the staggered formation of his firm's Haus am Hang in Stuttgart gives every floor its own outdoor space in the latest movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A spacious loft room bordered by slender balustrades is located beneath the steeply sloping wooden rafters of this Tokyo house by Apollo Architects & Associates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As Vietnam continues to invest in its tourist industry, all sorts of new architecture has been springing up in the country – from traditional thatched and bamboo structures by architects like Vo Trong Nghia and a21studio, to a 460-metre skyscraper underway in Ho Chi Minh City. See more stories about architecture in Vietnam » View the full article

Huge steel beams with I-shaped profiles were stacked to form the framework of this Tokyo house by Mount Fuji Architects Studio, which features a red spiral staircase winding between its floors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This see-through floating hut designed by Elise Morin and Florent Albinet is modelled on the remote cabin built by American author Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Plants climb all over vertical concrete louvres surrounding the facades of this holiday resort on the Vietnamese coastline designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has used digital manipulation to splice together two buildings – the Storefront for Art & Architecture gallery in New York and the Spanish Republic Pavilion from the 1937 Paris Expo. (more…) View the full article

Pomo summer: Ettore Sottsass' Carlton bookcase was the defining product of the 1980s Memphis Group. In the latest instalment of our Postmodernism series, we explore how its bright coloured laminates and playful form typified Memphis' challenge to Modernism's impersonal aesthetic. (more…) View the full article

The reflective stainless steel skin of the new Len Lye Museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand pays tribute to the work of the experimental artist known for his kinetic and multimedia pieces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

British writer and curator Justin McGuirk – a regular columnist for Dezeen – is joining London's Design Museum as chief curator this month. (more…) View the full article

This house for two retired lecturers in the Indonesian city of Salatiga was designed with multiple bamboo funnels on its roof to echo the area's mountainous topography (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article