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Graduate shows 2015: Bartlett architecture graduate Lauren Fresle has envisioned a water city in Israel where Jewish and Muslim communities live peacefully together against a backdrop of huge stepwells and cisterns (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Graduate shows 2015: Central Saint Martins graduate Paulina Lenoir has designed a pair of comically long shoes that force wearers to reconsider their daily routes and pace (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Music: French director Hugo Moreno presents an animated urban landscape that blends ancient Mesopotamian and mid-century Modern architecture in this music video for Art Department's track Walls. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Following the opening of our New York office in May, we're celebrating American Independence Day with a roundup of Dezeen's favourite US projects from the past year, including a house with walls built from soil, a remote family retreat and a noisy installation in a New York factory (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

London designer David Amar has created a dressing unit, a daybed and benches with built-in storage, based on floor tiles in a heritage-listed 1920s home in Tel Aviv, Israel (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

This pair of gabled homes in Winchester, England, are described by architect Adam Knibb as "contemporary timber pods on top of a dark monolithic base" (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Thirty-six slender columns support the thin concrete canopy of this colonnade, which provides an outdoor events space for a house museum on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

London studio NEON has built a structure with shingles that "shiver" and adapt in response to changing weather as part of a exhibition in Finland (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

With Herzog & de Meuron's proposed revamp of Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge stadium unveiled this week, Dezeen looks at all the stadiums designed by the Swiss firm, which is headed by avid football fan and regular player Jacques Herzog. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an intermediate architect/designer at Clive Wilkinson Architects, the firm behind the West Hollywood offices for comedy video production company Funny or Die (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Graduate shows 2015: tiny pieces of waste pine wood were meticulously hand-glued together by Royal College of Art graduate Simin Qiu to create these storage boxes and stationery items. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Design Miami/Basel 2015: London's Gallery Fumi presents metal-tube furniture by Max Lamb and patinated bronze tables by Glithero as part of its exhibition for this year's Design Miami/Basel fair (+ slideshow) (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

The Royal Institute of British Architects in London has revealed 37 winners of its 2015 awards, including a shoe-polish factory converted into offices, a sculptural swimming pool and a waterside distillery (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

New York's Museum of Modern Art announced today that it has added the Rainbow Flag, the universal symbol of gay pride, to its permanent design collection. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Castanheira & Bastai Arquitectos conceived this horse-riding centre in northern Portugal as a group of four connected house-shaped structures with sloping walls and exposed timber frameworks (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Design Miami/Basel 2015: a blackened-wood structure by Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects houses the VIP lounge at this year's Design Miami/Basel fair (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

A scale replica of a gateway to an ancient temple in Japan has been constructed in the grounds of the Dorich House Museum in south London by architecture students from Kingston University. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Hermann Zapf was one of the most influential typographers of the early digital age. Following his death earlier this month, Rob Alderson, former editor-in-chief of It's Nice That, explains how the German designer paved the way for the emoji and helped change visual communication. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Design Miami/Basel 2015: Belgian artists Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job have symbolised their romantic break-up as a head-on collision between two steam trains (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Dezeen Watch Store: over on the Dezeen Watch Store blog, David Adjaye reveals which of our models he wears and Piet Hein Eek explains the design of his first timepiece, plus we've selected the eight best watches for Father's Day this weekend. Check out the Dezeen Watch Store blog » [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

UK menswear designer Tom Cridland has launched a unisex sweater that comes with a 30-year guarantee, to promote sustainable fashion. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

The lower level of this village doctor's surgery in Spain is sunken down below road level and partially embedded in a slope, allowing it to appear the same size as the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Architecture and landscape firm Snøhetta has been appointed to develop plans for a new public access route along Willamette Falls in Oregon, the second largest waterfall in the US (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

This week we reported on Rem Koolhaas's statements about "sinister" technologies, a concept for Ikea's kitchen of the future and clip-on supports that can turn any flat surface into furniture (pictured). Click through for a roundup of the last seven days in architecture and design. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a studio director at Oppenheim Architecture + Design in Miami, who teamed up with Huesler Architekten to create offices in an 18th century building in northern Switzerland (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. [url={url}]View the full article[/url]