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Amsterdam architects UNStudio have completed a new headquarters for the Dutch national tax offices and the student loan administration in Groningen, the Netherlands. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mist cools the courtyard of this house in Kuwait City while also shielding it from prying neighbours (photos: Nelson Garrido). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this third movie that Dezeen filmed for trade show Garden Unique, British garden designer Andrew Wilson of Wilson McWilliam Studio talks about current trends in garden and landscape design. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: over 30 design companies will present their work at Tramshed, 32 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3LX from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The pitched roof atop this Paris house won’t keep out the rain – it’s actually a pergola for growing fruit over a roof terrace. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian studio LDA.iMdA Architects converted this former warehouse in northern Italy into a design showroom and then concealed it behind gauzy black curtains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the golden cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A steel screen zigzags in front of a shampoo area at this dimly lit beauty salon in Gifu, Japan, by architect Hiroyuki Miyake. (more…) View the full article

This Tokyo house by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has hardly any walls and looks like scaffolding (photos by Iwan Baan). (more…) View the full article

Writer and artist Clo’e Floirat has sent us a series of comical-satirical drawings of venues for the London 2012 Olympics, including one of the “Awful Tower” representing the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit tower by Anish Kapoor as an Eiffel Tower tied in knots (above). (more…) View the full article

Indoor and outdoor staircases lead from a roof terrace to a sunken courtyard at this house in Portugal by Lisbon studio da Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

Swiss studio Bernhard Burkard assures us this deck chair with no back legs is perfectly safe. (more…) View the full article

Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has concealed an office block with walls made entirely of glass behind a sandstone enclosure in the Spanish city of Zamora (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

“The social challenge of designing a laboratory is almost as demanding as the technical challenge,” Stanton Williams‘ Alan Stanton told Dezeen at the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize award ceremony this weekend, where his firm picked up the big prize for their design of the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, England (+ audio). (more…) View the full article

News: architect Sami Rintala is constructing a twenty-ton treehouse for Swedish hotel Treehotel. (more…) View the full article

London designer Mathias Hahn added concrete, brass and metal to these coloured glass vessels, which are inspired by making jam. (more...) View the full article

This lopsided house by Argentinean studio Adamo-Faiden has a pointed balcony poking out of one side and a caged terrace on the roof (+ slideshow + photos by Cristobal Palma). (more...) View the full article

Product news: this extendable bookcase by Dutch designer Reinier de Jong, which became one of our most popular stories ever after we published the prototype in 2008, has now gone into production. (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio General Design constructed this two-storey house in Tokyo as the prototype for a series of urban housing templates that can be replicated in any Japanese city (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: popping a cork this afternoon? Check out all the architectural wineries we've previously featured. See all the wineries on Dezeen » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD is exhibiting architectural models and sculptures in a Beijing courtyard to illustrate his vision for a future city inspired by nature and shaped by human emotion (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architecture firm OMA has been selected to design a major mixed-use public building featuring angled blocks stacked like dominoes for downtown Santa Monica, California (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Canadian design firm MSDS Studio is launching a collection of wooden furniture and metal lighting in the Greenhouse area of Stockholm Furniture Fair today (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Spanish furniture brand Missana has launched a hand-upholstered three-seater sofa by product design studio La Selva that integrates a wooden drinks tray (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic's Traffic seating collection for Italian design brand Magis has gone into production. (more...) View the full article