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Atelier Pierre Thibault has restored and enlarged an early 19th-century home in Montreal, creating two separate libraries and a writing studio overlooking a river. Read more View the full article

Movie: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was unable to attend last week’s opening of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion that he designed in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron so he made this movie about the project instead. (more…) View the full article

We've been inundated with requests for student tickets for Dezeen Day on 30 October, so we've released 25 half-price tickets for the conference. Read more

Movie: in our next exclusive video interview for Moroso, Dutch designer Tord Boontje explains how the fashion industry has influenced his furniture collections for the Italian brand. (more...) View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering one reader and five friends a three-night stay in the Boat House cabin at Cabü by the Sea in Kent. Read more View the full article

British architect Norman Foster has revealed that if he could visit any building from history, it would be Crystal Palace, which he cites as a major influence on high-tech architecture. Read more View the full article

Kodak's new smartphone aimed at photographers features in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with BIG's plans for a high-speed transportation system and a dinosaur egg museum in China. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Opinion: by destroying ancient architecture, ISIS is waging an ideological war on cultural history – it is our responsibility to respond with yet more culture, says Sam Jacob. (more…) View the full article

Looking for staff? Buy a package of three featured ads on Dezeen Jobs and save £180 – and get a free company profile too! Read more View the full article

Translucent polycarbonate panels encase the concrete and timber laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, by Behnisch Architekten. Read more View the full article

British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper explores all kinds of factories, from pork slaughterhouses to sex doll workshops. He says he isn't trying to shock or influence, just to show people where things come from. Read more View the full article

Should we redesign animals to save them from extinction? This week readers have been discussing the ethics of a synthetic biology project that proposes doing just that. (more…)

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a California-licensed architect at OMA, which won a contest last year to transform a site in Downtown Los Angeles into a public park. More › View the full article

Affordable developer BoKlok, which is co-owned by IKEA and Skanska, has signed a deal with Worthing council in West Sussex to build low-cost housing in the south of England. Read more

Milan 2012: these knobbly seats by Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer are on show at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Space & Interiors will focus on the use of light in interior products for this year's event, which takes place during Milan design week. Read 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

Coming to London for the Dezeen Awards ceremony on 27 November? Here is a guide to the best architecture, design and art shows in town. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Danish designer Cecilie Manz has collaborated with Bang & Olufsen to design a portable speaker that offers 360 degrees of sound. Read more View the full article

Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann has subdivided a 19th-century building in Zurich into nine flats with concrete and chipboard finishes that complement its existing vaulted ceilings and stone walls. Read more View the full article

News: Steven Holl has been named as the architecture laureate for the 2014 Praemium Imperiale arts prize from the Japan Art Association. (more...) View the full article

This captioned movie shows catwalk footage of Central Saint Martins graduate Fredrik Tjærandsen's colourful bubble outfits, which have become a viral sensation around the world. Read more

A studio for photographer Juergen Teller, a new wing at the British Museum and a revived seaside pier are among the projects shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize. Read more View the full article

This time last year Nike launched a football strip for the French national team featuring the classic Breton stripe, while Terence Conran, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and over a hundred other prolific designers each created an artwork on a piece of graph paper to raise money for cancer care centres. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Perforated pink aluminium panels form a sinuous structure that envelops visitors to this installation by French architect Marc Fornes, his studio The Very Many and sound artist Jana Winderen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article