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These new shots by photography duo Hufton + Crow show visitors climbing the grass-covered sloping roof of the Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus, designed by Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

PARKA Architecture has renovated a modernist home in Quebec City, preserving its most successful features while bringing in more natural light and decluttering the interiors. Read more View the full article

Facebook's Frank Gehry-designed headquarters (pictured), a light-reflective safety spray for cyclists, and new renders of Tadao Ando's first apartment block in New York feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a retrospective of work by the late Zaha Hadid will take place during this year's Venice Biennale, including early paintings, models and photos of past and future projects. (more…) View the full article

London studio Gort Scott has converted a rundown office block in London's Walthamstow into a hub for local creatives, featuring co-working spaces, maker studios and a bakery cafe (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week the UK’s architecture watchdog was forced to apologise for saying that Renzo Piano and Daniel Libeskind are “not entitled to be described” as architects, while designer Andy Martin angered a number of Dezeen readers by unveiling a concept bike that many thought “goes against structural logic” (above). (more…) View the full article

Fashion and technology: the digital revolution presents the "biggest challenge for fashion brands" according to digital fashion pioneer Francis Bitonti who asks: "How will an industry where value is communicated by exclusivity and craft cope with this new space?" (+ interview) (more...) View the full article

Golden boxes fronted by balconies make up the exterior of this student housing block in Paris by Hamonic+Masson & Associés, which also features a secret garden and nesting areas for birds (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architects OMA have unveiled plans to convert a former theatre in Upstate New York into a performance institute commissioned by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid’s streamlined glass and concrete government building in Montpellier (above) heads up the lastest issue of Dezeen Mail, along with new jobs, competitions, movies and music. Read Dezeen Mail issue 113 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This week we reported on Jonathan Ive's wide-ranging talk at London's Design Museum, the release of Marc Newson's shotgun and a Real Apple Store created to showcase British apple varieties (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our music track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Benjamin Hubert's studio Layer has lined its new London warehouse offices with coloured display boxes that frame elements from recent projects. Read more View the full article

British architect David Chipperfield has offered his take on the classic Italian coffee maker invented by Alfonso Bialetti in the 1930s. Read more

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

London Design Festival: designers Lee Broom and Jason Bruges are among the ten speakers taking part in the designjunction PechaKucha tonight, with a live DJ set from Dezeen Music Project afterwards. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: interior-finishes company Woven Image has collaborated with designer Michael Young to launch a collection of acoustic panels featuring "technical decorations" based on algorithms. Read more View the full article

As Team 4, Su Brumwell, Richard Rogers, Wendy Cheesman and Norman Foster began to develop high-tech architecture. Continuing our series on the style we look at four key projects. Read more View the full article

This holiday cabin in Sweden by architect Mikael Bergquist is clad with untreated timber that will fade to grey as time passes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the highly flexible and adaptable Herman Miller Factory in Bath, which was designed by Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw in 1976. Read more View the full article

Coming to London this summer? Visit us at our pop-up watch store and design emporium Dezeen Super Store, which opens at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 on 30 June and stays open throughout the Olympic Games and the London Design Festival until 30 September. (more…) View the full article

An injunction that would have prevented Herzog & de Meuron from redeveloping Chelsea FC's football stadium has been blocked by the local council, paving the way for construction to begin. Read more View the full article

News: Danish architecture firm BIG has won a competition to design a new Museum of the Human Body in Montpellier, France. (more...) View the full article

Ecuador architecture firm TEC Taller EC has constructed a warehouse with a wavy, white metal upper storey, alongside a plot of grazing horses. Read more View the full article

News: technology giant Apple has lost its vision and has reached creative saturation according to Hartmut Esslinger, the industrial designer hired by Steve Jobs to help transform the brand in the 1980s. (more...) View the full article

Russian architects Asya Baranova and Nikolay Pokorsky have transformed a Soviet-era furniture store in St Petersburg into a vegetarian cafe, featuring raw materials and an assortment of plants (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article