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BIG has completed the "cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world" in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is topped by an artificial ski slope that is open all year round. Read more

Opinion: commercialisation of the UK's architectural heritage helped lay the foundations for the false nostalgia that is proving such potent propaganda for Brexiteers, says Sam Jacob. (more…) View the full article

The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is available to download from the app store and features interviews filmed by Dezeen, such as this one in which Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic describes the evolution of telephone design. (more…) View the full article

These photographs show the bulbous form of Renzo Piano's almost-complete Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, which nestles within a Parisian urban block. (more...) View the full article

The high-tech Camden Road Sainsbury's designed by Grimshaw, and the housing complex built alongside it, have been awarded Grade II-listed status. Read more

News: the six houses shortlisted for this year's RIBA Manser Medal have been announced, including a cliffside home on Scotland's Isle of Skye, an angular house extension in London and a Welsh countryside residence near the remains of a Celtic fort (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A driveway cuts through one wing of this three-pronged house in New York state, which is topped by a roof terrace with amphitheatre-style seating (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: the #milanuncut debate that exposed the poor royalties designers earn has inspired the launch of Crowdyhouse, a new crowdfunding platform that helps designers find funding for their products. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for Part III architects at Alison Brooks Architects, whose extension to a nineteenth century house in north London is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

US architecture studio Davidson Rafailidis has retained peeling paintwork, uneven concrete flooring and rough wooden beams while converting a garage in Buffalo, New York, into a live-work space. Read more View the full article

Imperial graduate Nicole Stjernsward has invented Kaiku, a system that turns plants into powdered paint pigments using vaporisation technology. Read more

Millennials will soon be able to furnish their homes with the emblazoned rugs and bedding in IKEA's long-awaited collection by fashion designer Virgil Abloh, which will be available for sale in the US next month. Read more

Kengo Kuma's SunnyHills cake shop illustrates how the architect interprets the Japanese vernacular, according to YouTuber Martin van der Linden in the first of a series of videos from Tokyo shared with Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

News: Mail Online - the world's most popular news website and the winner of a design effectiveness award - has described the gov.uk site that yesterday won the Design Museum's Design of the Year award as "boring" and "basic-looking". (more...) View the full article

In this week's comments update, a concept for a collapsable tower to be used in disaster zones starts a debate about unrealistic architectural ideas. Read more View the full article

Swedish artist Aia Jüdes has given gnarled tree offshoots a new lease on life by turning them into a series of lights decorated with rainbow LEDs, velvet scrunchies and shining puddles of brass. Read more View the full article

London studio PATALAB Architecture made the most of the space inside this awkward-shaped residence in the north of the city by running a staircase along the entire rear wall and adding a door that folds around a corner (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We've selected four roles for architectural assistants available on Dezeen Jobs this week, including positions at Tonkin Liu and Claridge Architects. Read more View the full article

These silver mirrors are each created by Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg in less than five minutes, using a traditional process involving chemical-infused liquid. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are concerned for the planet, and festival goers at Burning Man. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio BaksvanWengerden has added a splayed concrete extension to a triangular brick house in north Holland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian design studio Alcarol has teamed up with Tuscan stone company Vaselli to create a table and stools made from eroded Travertine encased in resin. Read more View the full article

South Korean architect Moon Hoon designed this home with missing corners for a figurine collector and his family (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Children can nestle into yellow alcoves and pull wooden furniture out of the walls at this school in Madrid by Rica Studio, which uses play to teach the English language. Read more View the full article

Japanese design studio Nendo will create an immersive environment for more than 160 prints and drawings by Dutch artist M.C. Escher at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne this December. Read more View the full article