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News: American architect Richard Meier has unveiled his design for a 163-metre-high skyscraper that is already under construction in the Taiwanese city of Taichung. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has partnered with UK designers Dorothy to give readers the chance to win one of five prints of forgotten architectural monuments. (more...) View the full article

The silhouettes of architects including Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Zaha Hadid are each depicted within a window from one of their buildings in these new illustrations by Federico Babina. (more...) View the full article

News: Mercedes-Benz has unveiled an autonomous lorry that will be able to drive itself across Europe's roads within the next 10 years (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

Double-height lengths of unevenly spaced timber have been added to the side of this Swiss house by Feliz Architects, alluding to the shapes of nearby trees and screening the interiors from harsh sunlight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Crinkled fibre-cement panels clad the facade of this theatre extension by Finnish studio ALA Architects in the city of Kuopio, complementing the concrete exterior of the original 1960s building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This table that houses plants in its centre by St Petersburg designer Maxim Scherbakov is named after the Soviet satellite that first took living objects into space and returned them safely to Earth (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Strips of timber from the surrounding forest cover the exterior of this hotel in Sweden by Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture, so that it reflects its rural setting (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This cabin made from scaffolding is one of 22 temporary hotel rooms that popped up around Mannheim, Germany, as part of the Hotel Shabby Shabby event for the city's Theater der Welt festival (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

XML architects has completed a bright white interior for a shop that sells only vitamin drinks and water in Amsterdam's Red Light District (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Tokyo architecture studio Sinato added a L-shaped wall into the centre of this apartment in Japan to partition off space for two new bedrooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: British designer Bethan Gray has created a colourful collection of upholstered seating for furniture brand Workhouse (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Behind the black steel exterior of this home on the Stockholm archipelago, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has created a living space with vaulted ceilings, and bedrooms with one big skylight overhead (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week we published the winner of the architectural photograph of the year award, futuristic trains for London and a building designed by Zaha Hadid for Cambodian genocide researchers (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our track of the week. (more...) View the full article

The green-tiled facade of this Lisbon townhouse by Camarim Arquitectos has varying textures and opacities designed to reference the building that previously stood on the site (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the city of Almere in the Netherlands has selected a small curvy chapel designed by architect René van Zuuk to be constructed over the surface of the Weerwater lake. (more...) View the full article

News: architects have been selected for two of three new "iconic" train stations in Paris that will be built as part of the Grand Paris Express ring-route rail project. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior project manager at Studioilse, whose interior design for a five-storey apartment building in Hong Kong is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

External staircases connect the three stories of this cast-concrete house overlooking a lake in Norway by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel teamed up with botanist Patrick Blanc to create this pair of plant-covered Sydney towers that reflect light into their lower levels with a huge cantilevered panel of mirrors. (more...) View the full article

This chair by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Govert Flint allows the user to control their computer cursor with a range of body movements (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Studiomama has converted the upper floors of a 300 year-old building in Stockholm's medieval old town to create a pair of 200-metre-square apartments with built-in wooden fittings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Food design studio Bompas & Parr has made whisky tasting more theatrical by using a church organ to heighten the perception of different flavours while drinking. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Swedish designers Alexis Holm and David Ericsson have released eight new styles of their popular Minuteman watch, including six eye-catching one-handed models. (more...) View the full article

News: Norway's central bank has selected pixellated designs by Oslo design studio Snøhetta to feature on the back of the country's new banknotes. (more...) View the full article