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Dutch studio Personal Architecture has renovated one of Piet Bloms' iconic Cube Houses in Rotterdam to create a residence for delinquents in their final stages of detention (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Renzo Piano has replaced the auditorium destroyed during the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, with a flat-pack building comprising three wooden cubes. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Jobs has selected five of the top architecture and design opportunities this week, including vacancies at architecture firms Purcell and Gresford Architects in Oxford. Read more

Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern Switch House, Ikea's flatpack refugee shelter, and the artwork for David Bowie's final album are among projects nominated for the Design Museum's Designs of the Year awards 2016 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week The Shard was inaugurated in London, legendary Italian car designer Sergio Pininfarina died and new dean of architecture Alex de Rijke announced the end of “paper architecture” at the Royal College of Art. (more…) View the full article

Product news: the Apollo lighting range by east London studio International has gone into production (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

South Korean designer Chiho Cheon was inspired by Seoul's homeless population to create this collection of furniture made from lacquered cardboard and cement. Read more View the full article

Design collective Assemble and a team of volunteers have constructed a temporary theatre in West Sussex, England, out of scaffolding, chipboard and plastic pond liner (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A central lightwell and a secluded courtyard bring natural light into the heart of this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, which was designed by Pasel Kuenzel for a photographer and his family. (more…) View the full article

Glass silhouettes of male and female figures reach out to each other across the tiled floor of this Milan fashion boutique by Italian designer Fabio Novembre. (more...) View the full article

New images have been released detailing Renzo Piano's design for a moviemaking museum in Los Angeles, following news that project has just received a $50 million funding donation. Read more View the full article

A few tons of concrete was all professional skateboarder Philipp Schuster needed to turn this derelict hunting lodge in Salzburg, Austria, into an indoor skate park. (more…) View the full article

Business news: German publishing house Gestalten has entered into voluntary insolvency after losing money on a concept store in Berlin. (more…) View the full article

A flatulence-filtering range of underwear designed to stop farts from smelling has been expanded by British clothing manufacturer Shreddies to include pyjama bottoms and jeans. (more…) View the full article

The yellow stone and white render walls of this house in the Lithuanian countryside curve around to form a semicircle. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have completed a film and theatre centre in South Korea with a steel and glass cantilever that’s wider than the wings of an Airbus A380 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London has once again become a subject of controversy, following reports that its curved facade is channelling gusts of wind strong enough to knock people over. (more…) View the full article

Amsterdam-based Studio Drift has created an installation of 3,000 blue blocks, which each represent the plastic used to make an individual supermarket bag, at the Van Abbemuseum for Dutch Design Week. Read more View the full article

Product news: each of these lamps by Swedish design duo Mats Broberg and Johan Ridderstråle for Nordic furniture company Muuto is shaped like a single leaf at the end of a long stem. (more…) View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Blenheim Forge in London to offer our readers the chance to design their own hand-crafted cooking knife. Read more View the full article

Architect Alison Brooks talks about how residents come together in the streets of her firm's Be housing project in Essex, UK, in this movie produced by Living Projects. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our interview with Rachel Armstrong, the senior University of Greenwich lecturer explains how a synthetic "limestone-like" support structure could be grown underneath Venice to prevent the city's foundations being eroded. (more...) View the full article

Portuguese architects and hairdressers have collaborated on these coiffures inspired by architectural structures. (more…) View the full article

David Kohn Architects has worked with Nord Studio to convert a listed residential interior in Berlin into a grand office for property developer Euroboden. Read more View the full article

Competition: alternative architecture event Turncoats has returned for a final season, and Dezeen is giving away five pairs of tickets for its debate on space in the next 24 hours. Read more View the full article