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Amsterdam museum Looiersgracht 60 is hosting a solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker that consists of just five jugs. (more…) View the full article

UNStudio has been selected to design the new theatre for Den Bosch, the Netherlands, after winning a city-wide public vote (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Osaka office of Nikken Sekkei's interior design studio features a bookcase conceived as a "stand in a stadium" – the latest example of the trend for bookshelf staircases in both home and office interiors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cladding a building with perforated metal is an easy way for architects to enliven the facade of an otherwise simple structure, like this honeycomb-patterned office in Germany. Other examples on Dezeen include a truck-driving school in Paris, a water-cooling facility in Ohio and a parking garage in Miami. See all our stories about perforated metal facades » View the full article

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been appointed as artistic director for the Venice Architecture Biennale, which will focus on the "battles to be won" to improve quality of life within the built environment. (more…) View the full article

Swedish firms Johan Sundberg Arkitektur and Blasberg Andréasson Arkitekter used sheets of perforated metal to create a faceted facade for this office extension on a Lund industrial estate, helping to "break up the area's mediocrity" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Photo essay: French photographer Jérémie Souteyrat trained himself to photograph architecture after moving to Tokyo, by hunting down and documenting some of the best private houses in his adopted city. (more…) View the full article

An exhibition of Norwegian design will return to the London Design Festival in September, with a new focus on the country's manufacturing industry (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Green aluminium panels cover the facade of this contemporary art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, where a ceiling shaped like a gramophone horn funnels in light from an opening in the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week, Japan scrapped Zaha Hadid's controversial 2020 Olympic Stadium (pictured), Bjarke Ingels' revealed plans for London's Battersea Power Station chimneys and we found out what leading designers think of the Apple Watch. Click through for more of the biggest architecture, interiors and design stories from the past seven days. (more…) View the full article

Glass partitions divide up the interior spaces of apartments created within a former school building in the Belgian city of Izegem by local architect Lieven Dejaeghere (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We've created a new Pinterest board full of moving buildings that roll, spin, twist and hinge open, following the publication of Henning Larsen's Danish university facility with a climate-responsive kinetic facade. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more moving buildings View the full article

Natural stone and timber are used to differentiate the main house from an adjoining guest wing at this property in California's Napa Valley by local architect Brandon Jørgensen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Polish designer Szymon Hanczar's micro apartment in Wroclaw contains a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom all within the confines of just 13 square metres (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Music: French director Benjamin Artola's hand-drawn music video for Grand Soleil's track Misfits transports a man out of a traffic jam onto a trippy journey through seas, deserts and space (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A rhomboid-shaped roof creates sheltered terraces around the edges of this Australian house, which is arranged over three parallel terraces on a hillside in a nature reserve near Melbourne (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American stoneware and ceramics company Walker Zanger has collaborated with New York-based Robert A M Stern Architects to create a collection of tiles inspired by the firm's Postmodern buildings. (more…) View the full article

Floor-to-ceiling glazing permits views across rooms and into the garage of this renovated Chicago office, where the owner's limited-edition Porsche is parked (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Paris firm LAN Architecture has renovated a group of Brutalist housing blocks in Bordeaux, France, adding sliding polycarbonate windows that create an ever-changing facade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ampe Trybou Architecten added a crinkled roofline to this terrace in Belgium, marking the boundaries between the five homes inside whilst also referencing the buildings that stood on the site before (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed five possible designs for a youth centre that will form part of the £23 million redevelopment of Preston's Brutalist bus station, which was recently saved from demolition (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a New York sales representative at Emeco, whose iconic Navy chair with a purpose-made seat pad is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Russian artist Dmitry Morozov has designed a prototype truncheon that sends a text message to the police officer's mother every time it is used, in an attempt to prevent police brutality (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London is set to get its own international design biennial, based on the model of the Venice art and architecture biennales and directed by former Icon editor Christopher Turner. (more…) View the full article

Swiss firm Markus Schietsch Architekten has completed a new elephant house for a zoo in Zurich featuring an elaborate wooden gridshell roof and a glass-sided swimming pool (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article