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Dutch studio Mecanoo has completed Europe's largest public library in Birmingham, England, with a sunken amphitheatre, rooftop gardens and a shimmering facade clad with interlocking metal rings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Parisian office Modal Architecture has created a bright white artist's studio with a wall of golden plywood cupboards behind the thick stone walls of a 17th-century barn in Brittany (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Inside Festival 2013: two projects in Singapore and a house with triangular floor tiles (pictured) feature in the second group of category winners for the awards at this year's Inside Festival. (more...) View the full article

News: the Australian Institute of Architects has announced 38 winners of this year's National Architecture Awards, including a pointy artists' studio in Japan, a bright blue stadium in Perth and a Melbourne university building covered in scales. (more...) View the full article

Slovenian firm Svet Vmes Architects has converted the unused entrance of a school in Ljubljana into an undulating green lounge featuring spotty walls and big cushions (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Vertical wooden laths cyclically pummel the floor of a cavernous New York factory building in this installation by Swiss artist Zimoun (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2014: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has created a birch chair with a circular seat and splayed legs, his first design for Finnish furniture company Artek. (more...) View the full article

This house in the Australian desert by Dunn & Hillam Architects hunkers down into the earth and features a large angled roof to protect it from extreme temperature fluctuations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tokyo studio PANDA has slotted a boxy family house onto a plot hemmed in by other residences on all four sides (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Israeli designers Idan Noyberg and Gal Bulka have replaced sewing-machine needles with stamps that print lines of patterns onto fabric. (more...) View the full article

A zigzagging roof extends across this extension added to the original gable end of a community centre in the Swiss municipality of Oberglatt by Zurich studio Frei + Saarinen (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the first commuters have travelled through Grimshaw's newly completed New York subway station and retail space, the Fulton Center. (more...) View the full article

The owners of this brick house in the Netherlands, by Reitsema & Partners, can drive their car up a shallow ramp into a sheltered parking area that frames a view of the low-lying landscape. (more…) View the full article

Austrian design firm EOOS and water research institute Eawag hope to improve sanitation levels in areas of extreme poverty with a mobile toilet that contains its own water filtration system (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The foundations of a stalled 838-metre-high skyscraper in Changsha, China, are now being used as a fish farm, according to local reports. (more…) View the full article

London-based startup Blocks has designed a smartwatch that allows wearers to choose the functionalities they need by clipping on additional modules. (more…) View the full article

Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has added a collection of colourful square sound-absorbing tiles to its Baux range of architectural products (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Each of the splotchy metal Last Stool Splatter seats by British designer Max Lamb for furniture brand Hem is patterned by hand. (more…) View the full article

This wooden stool designed for Bosnian brand Zanat by Swedish architects office Wingårdhs has been "tattooed" with hand-chiselled carvings. (more…) View the full article

Australian studio BoardGrove Architects has designed a pair of steel tables made from opposing forms that appear to have been cut from the same piece (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: TID's No.1 watch by Form Us With Love now comes with a strap made from recycled textiles and leather off-cuts as part of the Stockholm-based design brand's efforts to "minimise waste". (more…) View the full article

Arched openings and curved walls feature throughout this compact family home in Japan, designed by architecture studio Alts Design Office to make the interior feel more cosy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Heritage Corb: for the next instalment in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, Australian photographer Benjamin Hosking shares new images of Capitol Complex in Chandigarh – the Indian city that gave the architect a chance to test his Modernist theories on a grand scale (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brexit crisis: architects have reported concerns over the future of their businesses in the first major survey of confidence levels since the EU referendum. (more…) View the full article

Twelve years after designing the Galeria Millan exhibition space in São Paulo, architects Sérgio Kipnis and Fernando Millan have added an annex that reveals its contents to the street. (more…) View the full article