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Beijing Design Week 2014: design studio Lava has created a set of symbols that take elements from both Chinese characters and Western graphics in the hope that they will be understood by people from both cultures (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a team led by Danish architecture firm COBE has seen off competition from three firms to land the commission for a new railway interchange in Køge, a town 28 miles south of Copenhagen. (more...) View the full article

News: an international design competition has been launched to create a "state-of-the-art facility for young people" inside Preston Bus Station, an iconic Brutalist building in Lancashire, England. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with What Design Can Do to offer readers the chance to win one of five tickets to the annual design conference in Amsterdam. (more…) View the full article

This dog-friendly guesthouse and residence in the South Korean province of Chungcheongnam features doors decorated with canine illustrations and a sloping playground overlooking the rural landscape (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This house in Pinamar, Argentina, features glazed surfaces inserted into its concrete structure and retractable wooden walls to open it out to the surrounding woodland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Pierre-Alain Dupraz chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: municipal architects helped create some of 20th-century Europe's best cityscapes and buildings, says Owen Hatherley. It's time for them to return. (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2016: Canadian studio MSDS has unveiled a lighting and furniture range, which includes a chair based on a design that dates back to the 1600s (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a creative director at online design retail store Fab, whose range of products includes ceramics by El-AICH Designs (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This clifftop holiday home by British designer John Pawson presents white windowless facades to its guests, but at the rear large windows and a roof terrace face towards the sea (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Danish studio Space Copenhagen has created bespoke furniture using stone, wood and leather to complement its interiors for this hotel in Manhattan's SoHo district (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Paris architecture office Dorell Ghotmeh Tane has created a new home for the Estonian National Museum – a 350-metre-long sloping glass building that rises from the runway of a former Soviet airbase near the city of Tartu (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu will deliver the Royal Academy's prestigious Annual Architecture Lecture tonight. Tune in at 6.45pm UK time to watch it live on Dezeen or on our Facebook page. (more…) View the full article

Photo essay: worried that Brazil's love motels would fall foul of Olympic development, Dutch duo Vera van de Sandt and Jur Oster visited the pay-by-the-hour rooms to capture the moods of these intimate spaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Oak-covered living rooms and bathrooms clad in large panels of veined marble add a touch of luxury to this otherwise simple apartment in the heart of London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Álvaro Siza Vieira has built a linear, white concrete art museum that runs parallel to the Tâmega river in Chaves, Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These photographs provide a more detailed look at OMA's extension to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, described as the largest cultural project in the Canadian province when it opened this summer. Read more View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with landscape architecture firm Topotek 1 to give away a book showcasing its projects, including a colourful park in Copenhagen, bright pink street furniture and an assortment of sports fields. Read more View the full article

Slovakian designer Šimon Kern's Beleaf chair is made from a biodegradable mixture of recycled leaves and resin. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a middleweight designer at The Collective, which opened the world's largest co-living building in London last year. More › View the full article

A prominent art dealer has turned an estate once owned by infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar into luxury accommodation filled with items from his collection. Read more View the full article

The UK Independence Party has replaced its yellow, pound-sign logo with a purple lion's head – and is now facing a copyright battle with England's main football league, whose own logo is remarkably similar. Read more View the full article

German car manufacturer BMW has unveiled a one-off, all-electric version of its classic MINI car, to demonstrate its commitment to releasing zero-emissions production vehicles by next year. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a 9,000-year-old axe imprints the dark concrete panels that clad this storage and research centre for the Tyrolean State Museum in Austria, designed by architecture studio Franz&Sue. Read more View the full article