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Brooklyn firm Studio Tack has revamped a mid-century motel on the North Fork of Long Island to include cabin-like bedrooms and a restaurant that feels "like a ferry crossing the sound". Read more

The Cell Furniture project sees product design students at London's Central Saint Martins create flexible furniture for prisons, which will be made by the inmates. Read more

British fashion designer Richard Nicoll has died aged 39 following a suspected heart attack. Read more View the full article

Design studio AfroditiKrassa "deliberately went dark" to create the anti-Instagrammable interiors of central London's Lucky Cat restaurant, which almost exclusively features jet-black surfaces. Read more

This week on Dezeen, a Chinese company launched the world's fastest electric car, while Jonathan Ive and Marc Newson teamed up to create a Christmas tree installation. Read more View the full article

Square openings form a grid of tiny windows through the screens of this clinic for hair restoration and removal in Tokyo by Japanese studio KORI architecture office (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Chunky chipboard surfaces have been sanded and stained to look like marble at this Aesop skincare shop in Tokyo by Japanese studio Torafu Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Structural engineer James O'Callaghan, whose firm Eckersley O'Callaghan is behind the glass stairs in Apple's stores, has designed a collection of men's eyewear for German brand Freigeist (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Foster + Partners has completed a new city hall for the Argentinian capital, featuring a wavy concrete roof, a quadruple-height atrium and a glazed facade offering views out to the park (+ slideshow). (more…)

This chicken coop by Swedish architect and designer Torsten Ottesjö is designed to look like the protective wing of a mother hen. (more…) View the full article

We’ve got a another track with a twist for you on Dezeen Music Project today. Teardream by Kid Suda starts off with a simple but catchy looped piano chord sequence, before a screaming electric guitar riff kicks in half way through. If you like what you hear, you can keep up to date with all of Kid Suda’s latest tracks and other goings-on here. About Dezeen Music Project | More tracks | Submit your track View the full article

A contemporary art centre with a chequered glass facade by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma is the latest in a string of cultural buildings to complete this year in Marseille. (more...) View the full article

A new taco restaurant in Austin, Texas, by Chioco Design references mid-century American roadside buildings and signage with bright red columns and a distinctive roofline (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: we've teamed up with London designers Another Studio to give away five model kits of the Crystal Palace, to celebrate the launch of their latest pocket-sized architecture collection. (more...) View the full article

New Mexico-based firm Archaeo has completed a low-slung home traversed by a bright red wall in the desert close to Santa Fe. Read more View the full article

News: the Australian Institute of Architects has announced 38 winners of this year's National Architecture Awards, including a pointy artists' studio in Japan, a bright blue stadium in Perth and a Melbourne university building covered in scales. (more...) View the full article

Chinese design studio Neri&Hu will present a collection of wooden furniture for De La Espada in New York later this month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects’ winning proposal for the Japan National Stadium is the top story in this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments. Read Dezeen Mail issue 127 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Product news: architect Zaha Hadid has designed a system of twisting auditorium seats for Italian brand Poltrona Frau Contract. (more...) View the full article

Bratislava-based MEJD Studio has developed two new lights that look like objects sliced in half – the first features a pendant lamp and bowl that together resemble a water jug, while the second is a table lamp comprising two halves of a brass globe (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Austrian architects WG3 have designed a mobile hotel room that could be delivered to all kinds of outdoor locations. (more…) View the full article

New York agency Pentagram has expanded on iconic album artwork by design duo Hipgnosis to create the visual identity for Pink Floyd Records. Read more View the full article

Huge rectangular holes puncture the walls and ceilings of this four-storey split-level house in Tokyo by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects, the next window of our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House T » View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a store designer at Nike, whose past interior design projects include a temporary New York space illuminated in lurid colours by Robert Storey Studio (pictured). Read more stories on Nike or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin wouldn't get built in today's xenophobic social climate, according to its architect Peter Eisenman. Read more View the full article