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American firm ZGF Architects has completed a cancer centre in downtown Phoenix with a faceted, copper-coloured screen that evokes the scaly skin of a desert reptile (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago Daniel Libeskind designed his first piece of commercial furniture, the Campana Brothers presented plastic garden furniture wrapped in wicker and Zaha Hadid recreated some of her buildings as three-dimensional wall art. (more…) View the full article

Fashion "flashbacks and fast-forwards" will be the theme of next year's major fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with exhibition design by Es Devlin. Read more View the full article

Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about kettles by famous designers as part of our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here. (more…) View the full article

Tubular legs and armrests define this colourful collection of metallic outdoor furniture created by Mexican designer Christian Vivanco. Read more View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick revealed plans for a park in Abu Dhabi resembling the cracked surface of a desert (pictured) and category winners for the Designs of the Year 2014 awards were announced. Read on for more of the week's top architecture and design news, plus our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have uncovered three underground concrete tanks at the Tate Modern gallery in London to create new spaces for art and performance, which open this week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: this timelapse movie by architectural photographer Paul Raftery and director Dan Lowe shows the final stages of construction for London skyscraper The Shard, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. (more…) View the full article

A red brick building designed for one of the UK's oldest libraries will be the first new addition to Lambeth Palace – the historic home of the Archbishop of Canterbury – in almost two centuries (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has erected three prefabricated houses at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, to highlight the families that relocate their homes as river channels move within the Bengal Delta. Read more View the full article

Anyspace Architecture Design made only subtle interventions to this centuries-old building in rural China to transform it into this boutique hotel, which features a host of original decor details. Read more

Comments update: ahead of the EU referendum this Thursday, OMA founder Rem Koolhaas has spoken out against Brexit, prompting readers on both sides to wade into the debate. (more…) View the full article

A grid of 12 regimented blocks forms this Seoul memorial centre designed by D Lim Architects to pay tribute to the life of Korean independence activist Ahn Jung-geun (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The first batch of designer Michael Young's updated Moke beach buggys has been produced, ahead of the car's launch later this year (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Next up in our high-tech architecture guide, we look at Portcullis House in London, which demonstrated how the style could be used in historically sensitive locations. Read more View the full article

Behind the brickwork exterior of the new Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, England, architecture studio Haworth Tompkins designed a curved auditorium built from 25,000 reclaimed bricks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: French architect Jean Nouvel unveiled a pair of leather and rubber boots for Italian shoe brand Ruco Line at the Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design exhibition in Milan this week. (more...) View the full article

President of Indonesia Joko Widodo is planning to relocate the nation's capital away from Jakarta, the world's fastest-sinking city. Read more

A full-height window and a projecting seating nook interrupt the facade of this suburban Melbourne house created by local studio Pleysier Perkins in a former warehouse (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designers Alexander Taylor and Joachim de Callatay have developed a special-edition version of German sports brand Adidas' Superstar trainer, featuring a seamless upper made from a single piece of leather (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Norwegian artist Per Kristian Nygård attempted to bring the outside inside with this installation that involved building grassy mounds inside an Oslo gallery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our latest Spanish apartment with a colourful tiled floor is this renovated residence in Toledo by local studio Romero Vallejo Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We are now offering FREE SHIPPING on all UK orders at Dezeen Watch Store. Visit the store for our full selection of carefully curated timepieces by leading designers and independent brands including Hong Kong watch brand Ziiiro (pictured above). (more…) View the full article

As we've published a couple of tiny architecture and interior projects this week, here are all our stories about micro homes. See more micro homes » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Japanese designer Yusuke Seki has completed a second shop for modern kimono brand Otsuka Gofukuten, juxtaposing the garment with concrete surfaces and layers of green-tinged glass (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article