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News: furniture giant Ikea has used its expertise in flat-pack design to redesign refugee shelters. (more...) View the full article

The tender for President Donald Trump's Mexico border wall has been amended, with more details added about the design requirements and the deadline for submissions extended. Read more View the full article

This supertall tapered skyscraper designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for the China Resources export company in Shenzhen is nearing completion ahead of its opening later this year. Read more View the full article

Steps connecting the gradually rising floors of this Paris house by Moussafir Architectes can be glimpsed through the cut-out shutters on its glazed facade (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Product news: Dutch designer Arian Brekveld based the design of this lounge chair on the shapes of seats in cars. (more...) View the full article

This week's roundup from Pinterest finds homes that borrow from their rural locations and use natural materials, including a 19th-century barn conversion in rural Germany and a Barcelona apartment with exposed stone walls. Read more View the full article

Photo essay: 70 years after the second world war ended, there are still over 6,000 defensive structures along Britain's coastline. Photographer Richard Brine has been documenting them (+ slideshow). (more…)

Brenda Smith began her career as a nurse in New York, but now leads healthcare and hospital projects at global architecture firm Perkins and Will. She explains how she got there for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Samsung Design Europe, Gensler and Hayes Davidson, which created the pictured visual for a 216-metre skinny skyscraper designed by Foster + Partners. Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with G-Star Raw, Skandium, Heatherwick Studio and more... (more...) View the full article

This collection of lamps by New York designer Merve Kahraman takes cues from the forms and patterns of the planet Saturn. Read more View the full article

We've been soaking up the sun at Design Miami this week, where a previously unbuilt house by Charlotte Perriand (pictured) and 3D-printed wearable sculptures are among the projects on display. Read on for more of the week's top architecture and design news. (more...) View the full article

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has released a movie online that tours a digital recreation of the architect's Taliesin West in Arizona, allowing architecture enthusiasts to explore the desert complex remotely. Read more View the full article

Music: Amsterdam material designer Shai Langen made sculptural headpieces and covered models in hand-painted patterns for Jo Goes Hunting's Run Away music video. (more…) View the full article

This week we're counting down the most-pinned interiors that feature marble on Dezeen, including a juice bar in London with a veined-stone counter and a renovated apartment in Madrid that has a walk-through shower (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This towering commercial block in Ginza, Tokyo, by Amano Design Office features a faceted aluminium facade reminiscent of a crumpled-up sweet wrapper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This university building in Melbourne by Australian architects Lyons is covered in brightly coloured scales (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: twelve international firms including OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, BIG and SANAA have been shortlisted to design a new headquarters and visitor centre for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden. (more...) View the full article

The latest football stadium for the 2022 World Cup tournament in Qatar has been unveiled, featuring a diamond-patterned exterior based on the knitted white cap traditionally worn by Arab men. Read more View the full article

This week, we've selected four exciting opportunities for senior architects on Dezeen Jobs, including vacancies at international architecture firms BIG and UNStudio. Read more View the full article

Architect Yasutaka Yoshimura has transformed a disused warehouse in Japan into a kindergarten by enveloping the existing structure in a tent-like translucent membrane (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Juergen Teller got everyone's attention when he posed naked on a donkey, but he isn't the only one presenting unconventionally shot architectural photography. We put a spotlight on 10 of the most bizarrely shot projects. Read more View the full article

This stacking chair by Swedish designer Jens Fager is more flexible than you’d expect thanks to a springy mechanism that joins the back to the metal frame (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Icelandic singer Björk worked with creatives from the theatre world who tore up the rule book to create a "delicate" set for her Cornucopia tour. Read more View the full article

American studio SERA Architects has overhauled a 115-year-old church building and created a contemporary addition to house a nonprofit theatre company in Oregon. Read more

This timber-clad community centre by Bernardo Bader Architects is set at the heart of a village in rural Austria, and designed to reference the surrounding gabled farmhouses. Read more View the full article