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We’ve got together with publisher Gestalten to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Container Atlas: a Practical Guide to Container Architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen launched five years ago this week and we’re celebrating our birthday by looking back at our favourite stories, parties and projects over the last five years. We’ve travelled all over since launching in 2006 and here we’ve compiled the most memorable design weeks and festivals we’ve attended. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slidehow: architects Foster + Partners have been granted permission to build two 320-metre-high towers beside the Seine, just outside Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish office Magén Arquitectos have completed a building for the environment department of Zaragoza city council in Spain, featuring a top level of wood paneling, a glass mid-section and a black-tinted concrete bottom. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gerrman architects Kada Wittfeld Architektur have completed this metal-bodied museum in Glauburg, Germany, that cantilevers out towards a historic Celtic burial mound. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: designers are being invited to enter their projects in the 2018 DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, which recognise the UK's most effective design projects. Read more View the full article

Ingenhoven Architects has covered the Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf, Germany, with 30,000 plants to form hedges that would stretch five miles laid end to end. Read more View the full article

The top floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese architects Apollo appears to be caving in. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Johnny Selman of San Francisco is designing a poster a day for 365 days based on a headline taken from the BBC News website. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This holiday home in Kanagawa, Japan, by Japanese studios Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan comprises two separate blocks fanning outwards towards Tokyo Bay. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another loopy bridge for China (see our earlier story about NL Architects’ concept), this time a foot bridge for Xinjin in the Sichuan province by New York studio WXY Architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another project by Royal College of Art graduate Ki Hyun Kim: a wooden dining chair that’s even lighter than the famed Superleggera designed by Gio Ponti in 1957. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: “we’re advocating other UK architects to design on water,” architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British Pavilion. (more…) View the full article

Lots of new jobs on our recruitment site Dezeenjobs this week, including positions with Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen, David Gill Galleries and London designer Sebastian Bergne, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with Fuseproject, Linley, Steven Holl Architects and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The interior of this Zurich wine store by Swiss architects OOS is built from crates used to transport the bottles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Tomás Alonso presented a range of shelves and lighting that combine ash timber with leather saddlery during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To coincide with the Less and More exhibition about the work of German designer Dieter Rams that opens tomorrow in Frankfurt, Dezeen have got together with furniture brand Vitsœ to give away five signed posters showing Rams’s ten principles of good design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of work by London architect Zaha Hadid has opened inside her Mobile Art Pavilion (see our earlier story), which has found its permanent home in Paris having toured New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong since 2008. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: these prints featuring festive collective nouns by Woop Studios are on sale at our pop-up shop The Temporium, open in London until 24 December. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This series of furniture by Norwegian designer Amy Hunting incorporates loops of felt for storage. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has designed an hourglass for watch brand Ikepod, which contains tiny stainless steel balls in place of sand. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A bright red shipping container at the entrance to the offices of Cape Town branding agency 99c houses a waiting room for visitors. (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: The Duo Series is a collection of minimalist pendant lights by Californian lighting manufacturer Meteor Lighting that glow from both ends. Read more View the full article

The Temporium: Palomar‘s indestructible maps are behind today’s Advent calendar featuring products on sale at our Christmas pop-up shop The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction is underway in Jena, Germany, on four office and residential buildings by Berlin studio J Mayer H Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article