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News: after a change of leadership and criticism from leading architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects has overturned its own motion calling for a suspension of Israel from architecture's international membership body. (more…) View the full article

Two designers from different sides of the globe have used a fictional design company to launch a new version of Comic Sans, with added spurs to lend it a "vintage, Mid-Western American aesthetic". (more…) View the full article

Architect Jochen Specht has doubled the size of a 1960s house in rural Austria by encasing its stone walls behind a new facade made up of dark timber, concrete and plenty of windows (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Philippe Starck's aluminium Icon Chair for American furniture brand Emeco is today's offering in our A-Zdvent calendar for 2014. (more…) View the full article

News: construction has begun on Diller Scofidio + Renfro's skyscraper at 15 Hudson Yards – the first residential tower in New York's new city quarter on stilts. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the next extract from our latest book, British designer Thomas Heatherwick discusses some of his studio's most high-profile projects including the UK Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 and updating London's iconic red buses. (more…) View the full article

An orange plastic tunnel forms a curvy seating area along the facade of this London office block – the first UK project from José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the architects of next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: New York architect Steven Holl has seen off competition from 104 applicants including Zaha Hadid, OMA and Amanda Levete, to design a new wing for the Mumbai City Museum. (more…) View the full article

Music: artist Chloe Early contrasts concrete urbanism with lush landscapes to create a coming of age story in this music video for the song Iris (Hold Me Close) – one of 11 being premiered simultaneously for U2's latest album Songs of Innocence today. (more…) View the full article

Steel arcs curve across the glass facade of this Portuguese marina complex by local architects Barbosa & Guimarães (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, OMA and Jonathan Tuckey Design, whose glazed extension to a Grade II-listed Cotswolds house is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with YOO, Speedo International, Martha Schwartz Partners and more... (more…) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has hit back at the Japanese architects criticising her Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium design, describing them as "hypocrites". (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Italian brand Ceramiche Refin has launched a porcelain tile collection based on the winning concept from its Create your Tile design competition. (more…) View the full article

News: not content with progress on Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge, London is planning a second new pedestrian bridge near the Battersea Power Station development. (more…) View the full article

Eight glass-walled gardens offer views of greenery to the occupants of this minimally furnished house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, by architecture firm Goko (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Next up in our alphabetical look at the history of chair design – the lightweight Handkerchief office chair designed by husband and wife team Massimo and Lella Vignelli in 1983. (more…) View the full article

Hinged shutters fold up and down over the windows of this monochromatic care home near Paris by French studio Naud & Poux (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has redesigned Santa Monica's bus shelters by developing a modular kit of parts that can be used to build an assortment of round blue canopies, supported on slender poles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Rianne Koens stacked sets of different-sized wooden boxes on top of angled legs to form these furniture pieces. (more…) View the full article

Movie: architect David Mikhail explains how he transformed a typical 19th-century London house into a "great family home" with all of its "original dignity" in this movie produced by Living Projects. (more…) View the full article

The seventh entry in our A-Zdvent calendar is the Garden Egg chair by Hungarian designer Peter Ghyczy, which demonstrated new techniques for plastic production in the late 1960s. (more…) View the full article

We've collected all kinds of residential conversions from the pages of Dezeen, from former warehouses and stables, to a transformed shophouse in Singapore and an old London post office, and added them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See our new Pinterest board View the full article

This house in the English countryside by London firm Wilkinson King Architects features red cedar cladding and a folded roof designed to evoke the line of hills on the horizon (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The first collection from British designer Lee West's new brand features cylindrical brass items for the home. (more…) View the full article

Music: creative agency Rabbit Hole mixed oily magnetic fluids with water to create an abstract representation of primordial life in this music video for UK producer Max Cooper. (more…) View the full article