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Visitors are encouraged to touch, swing, stack and reconfigure colourful plush furniture staged throughout this installation, which Fort Makers designed to harness the "power of play" in its New York gallery. Read more View the full article

The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores a vision from Bartlett School of Architecture student Michelle Ho, to replace demolished sections of a London housing estate with adaptable co-living units. Read more

Chenchow Little Architects has completed a house in the Glebe suburb of Sydney featuring upside-down arches in the walls and curved openings in the floors. Read more View the full article

Comments update: Thomas Heatherwick found himself at the centre of a flurry of criticism this week, as planning documents revealed some unusual restrictions for his proposed bridge across the River Thames. (more...) View the full article

News: London firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won a competition to design the new Scotland Yard headquarters for the London Metropolitan Police. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the British pavilion at the biennale charts the nation's Modernism using a fluorescent pink mound of earth, a galloping horse made from LEDs, imagery of social housing and a pair of concrete model cows (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Sharjah Architecture Triennial is located in two prominent examples of the emirate's surviving 1970s and '80s architecture. Here are six prominent buildings from the era that are being conserved. Read more View the full article

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

This week's issue of Dezeen Mail leads with Zaha Hadid's family of superyachts and includes all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 174 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has previewed a third design in his series of solar-powered mini lamps made for people without access to reliable energy. Read more View the full article

Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with BIG in New York and RIBA in London. Read more View the full article

Yves Behar's San Francisco studio Fuseproject has redesigned the set-top box, creating a matt black cube for French TV network Canal+ (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has paid tribute to "inspirational and enlightening" late German architect Frei Otto, while Norman Foster said Otto's "extraordinary structures altered the nature of architectural form in the 20th century". (more…)

Happy new year from the Dezeen team and best wishes for 2014! View the full article

A group of scientists have developed a home HIV testing kit that speeds up diagnosis and allows patients to monitor their own treatment. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa has been announced as the first laureate of the Royal Academy of Arts' architecture prize. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio SANAA has completed a sinuous building of glass, concrete, steel and wood that winds across the landscape of a nature reserve in New Canaan, Connecticut. (more…) View the full article

A house-shaped reading nook and colourful paintwork are among the playful features in this school for the children of refugees living in Tel Aviv, which has been overhauled by a team of local architects and designers. Read more

Threefold Architects has renovated a mews property in London's exclusive Primrose Hill area, pairing stark white walls with blackened metalwork, polished concrete and painted brickwork. Read more View the full article

Mexican architect Rozana Montiel has developed a "new kind of folded concrete" that is being used to build prefabricated solid-waste furnaces across Mexico. Read more View the full article

For its latest store, eyewear brand Ace & Tate enlisted the help of Standard Studio, which created a clean and stripped-back space complete with a colourful artwork. Read more View the full article

New Orleans firm Trahan Architects has completed a visitor centre for an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, using translucent glazing to blur views of occupants from the outside "like an impressionist painting". Read more View the full article

French designer Loïc Bard has crafted a set of wooden furniture and matching tableware, all with rounded edges "inspired by the sense of touch and the human body". Read more

This clock by graduate designer Rachel Suming is made of engraved aluminium plates that overlap every three hours to reveal the time. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Swedish studios Kjellander + Sjöberg and Folhem have installed a wooden pavilion between the Venice Biennale venues, in tribute to the 10 million trees used to build the city's foundations. (more…) View the full article