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High-tech pioneer Nicholas Grimshaw has stepped down as chairman of his eponymous architecture studio. In this series of movies he talks through 10 highlights that defined his five-decade career. Read more

In this week's comments update, readers are debating Patrik Schumacher's suggestion that architecture teachers use students to advance their own agendas rather than teach skills for the real world. Read more

Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its "sustainable" Conscious collection. Read more

A small elevated viewpoint projects from this tiny house-shaped pavilion, which JCPCDR Architecture has built for hikers to observe Lake Annecy in France. Read more

Creative leaders of London's cultural institutions have collaborated with 10 designers to create an object of personal relevance to them from American red oak wood for London Design Festival. Read more

Police riot helmets turned into disco balls and the stab-proof vest designed for Stormzy set, are among the items that graffiti artist Banksy is selling in his Gross Domestic Product online shop. Read more View the full article

Bali-based architect Alexis Dornier has developed a concept for prefabricated homes that could easily be taken apart and reassembled in a new location. Read more View the full article

A wooden pavilion designed to provide shelter for archaeologists shows that architecture "does not need to be complicated", says Dezeen Awards judge and architect Lyndon Neri in this movie. Read more View the full article

A grand gateway and a hillside belvedere are among a series of structures that Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has built in eastern France, to direct tourists towards a historic quarry. Read more View the full article

Los Angeles architect Clive Wilkinson has designed his own family home atop a hilly site to draw cues from nearby modern dwellings that resemble "spaceships on stilts". Read more View the full article

A concrete house in Switzerland by architecture practice DF_DC has an outdoor terrace on a plinth banded by an asymmetrical colonnade of rectangular columns. Read more View the full article

Organisers of Milan's Salone del Mobile will meet this afternoon to decide whether to proceed with this year's furniture fair, cancel it or postpone it due to Italy's coronavirus outbreak. Read more View the full article

The Creative Industries Federation has criticised the UK government's decision not to ban group gatherings due to coronavirus, as it could restrict the ability of creative organisations to claim compensation. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has designed a collection of handbags from single sheets of laser-cut leather that the buyer can assemble at home. Read more View the full article

RX Architects incorporated part of an unfinished building into this house with a cantilevered upper story on the Rye Nature Reserve in East Sussex, England. Read more View the full article

Hospitals and universities are "dinosaurs" that need to be redesigned in the wake of coronavirus, according to architect Carlo Ratti. Read more View the full article

Eleven award-winning projects completed by students across the four year groups on the BSc Architectural Design course at INDA feature in this Virtual Design Festival school show. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Citizen Architect, a 60-minute documentary about late architect Samuel Mockbee of pioneering American undergraduate programme Rural Studio, premieres at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas on Wednesday 17 March. www.citizenarchitectfilm.com </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Net City will be a car-free urban district for Shenzhen masterplanned by architecture firm NBBJ for Chinese technology company Tencent, which owns social media and messaging company WeChat. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: at Spazio Rosana Orlandi in Milan this week designers Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto of BCXSY are exhibiting a series of folding wooden screens made in collaboration with a Japanese joinery craftsman. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm designer Nicolas Cheng has designed a range of brooches made from bits of loofah, sponge and cotton. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Simon Hasan has hand-made 400 bowls, cups and vases from boiled leather, which he will sell via a vending machine. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this bench inspired by the way wood is stacked for drying is by London designer Richard Shed and is one of ten benches exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This conceptual tower for Taiwan by Romanian firms upgrade.studio, DSBA and Mihai Carciun in the USA would feature observation decks floating up and down each side on helium balloons. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian-Singaporean studio Lanzavecchia + Wai created these paper lamps in collaboration with a Singaporean craftsman who makes masks for a traditional lion dance. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article