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Australian architecture studio DeciBel has unveiled plans for a cultural complex in Hanoi, featuring six bulb-like structures to reference a floating lotus flower. Read more View the full article

In the most extreme example yet of QR codes used as decor, the new Hotel Modez in Arnhem has a room covered entirely in scannable codes that link to “pornography, pin-ups and other piquancies”. (more…) View the full article

Topping the list of our most popular stories in February is City Portraits by Victor Enrich, who manipulated his own architectural photographs to create impossible-looking buildings. (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects applied an intricate fritting technique to the glazed facade of this office complex in Zurich to give it the appearance of onyx marble (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: American studio Höweler + Yoon Architecture has won the Audi Urban Future Award 2012 with a concept to combine individual and public transport in the region between Boston and Washington nicknamed BosWash (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A technical fault trapped 180 passengers inside the doughnut-shaped viewing pod of the i360 observation tower last night, leaving them suspended above Brighton's seafront for two hours. (more…) View the full article

Pitched roofs are back in vogue and pointier than ever, so we've pinned some of the best examples to a new Pinterest board, including a timber-clad house on Canada's Cape Breton and a summer house that doubles as a climbing wall. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more pointy roofs in our archives 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

Handcrafted pieces from local artisans will be available to purchase in this lifestyle store in Jaipur, India, which features interiors developed by Bijoy Jain. Read more View the full article

This week, readers have been won over by a fire station in Antwerp which looks exactly like a fire station. Read more View the full article

Dutch architect OMA has built the 24-storey Nhow Amsterdam RAI Hotel in Amsterdam, which is made from three triangular volumes stacked on top of each other. Read more View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Murat Cengiz of Tabanlioglu Architects says that Turkey has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world because they have ”learnt how to be in a crisis,” in this interview we filmed about the firm’s airport project that topped the transport category at this year’s World Architecture Festival. (more…) View the full article

A public esplanade envelops David Chipperfield's West Bund Museum in Shanghai, which contains the Centre Pompidou's first Chinese outpost. Read more View the full article

Plywood panels are used to conceal storage and serving hatches inside this Tokyo coffee shop by Schemata Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Multiple European brands came together for MUT Design's Das Haus installation at IMM Cologne to create hybrid indoor-outdoor furniture prototypes that are now being put into production. Read more View the full article

Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed Building 25 of the Sinan Mansions in Shanghai into a bookstore that takes inspiration from the human body and mind. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with UNStudio, the Science Museum and Martha Schwartz Partners, whose Grand Canal Square project in Dublin is pictured. This is also your last chance to apply for roles with Paul Smith, OMA, Priestmangoode and more... (more...) View the full article

News: as the UK government today unveiled its first independent architecture report, project leader Terry Farrell admitted to Dezeen that public expectations for healthcare buildings "are low" and that architects don't have enough influence to change the status quo (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

The latest movie from a series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad features Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talking about some of the iconic lights in their collection. Download the app free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

New York studio Edg has proposed converting some of Manhattan's major roads into public-transit highways for driverless vehicles, in order to reduce travel times and turn the island's central thoroughfares into landscaped parks. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: a Polish-designed chair that was once a common sight in the living rooms of the formerly Soviet Bloc country has been reissued by new brand 366 Concept. (more…) View the full article

Wooden louvres mask the facade of this apartment block in South Korea by local studio Smart Architecture. (more…) View the full article

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has paired a ceramic urn-shaped body with a frosted glass shade to create these lamps for design brand Parachilna (+ slideshow). (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

Following the sudden death of architect Zaha Hadid, photographers Nick Hufton and Allan Crow have shared their favourite images of her buildings, which the pair have been documenting for the last six years (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article