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Koen van Velsen Architects used custom green-tinted brickwork, mirrored panels and glazed courtyards to help this sports centre on the outskirts of Rotterdam blend in with the greenery surrounding it. Read more View the full article

Rhode Island School of Design graduate George Coffin has designed a collection of products that add twists to familiar objects, including this watering can with a bent wood handle. There are also plungers combined with ornately turned handles or a walking stick, and more walking sticks with rubber wedges at the bottom to form door stops. Pieces of plastic bottles have been used to cast concrete fittings for pendant lamps and the cord of a coordinating desk lamp is held in place by notches in a counterbalanced wooden frame. Here are a couple of lines of explanation from Coffin: I’m a recent graduate from the Furniture Design department at The Rhode Island School …

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Herzog & de Meuron, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU and Studio Olafur Eliasson, whose fort-like headquarters design for a Danish investment company is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Wilkinson Eyre Architects, OMA, Paul Smith and more... (more...) View the full article

Hungary has revealed plans to build a new carbon-neutral greenhouse-filled farming city that will be powered by renewable energy sources. Read more

A pair of steel-clad volumes with pitched roofs and glazed gables provide additional living space behind the ornamental facade of this Victorian terrace in Melbourne (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Car brand BMW has designed a folding electric bicycle. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Norway abandoned plans for a controversial memorial near the site of the 2011 Utøya terrorist attack and Donald Trump suggested that solar panels could help pay for his border wall with Mexico. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Atelier In Vitro took a nostalgic approach to the renovation of three apartments in an old building in Porto, by restoring parquet and marble floors, and adding mid-century furniture. Read more View the full article

Comments update: Apple lacks direction and isn't delivering innovative design, according to commenters unimpressed by the tech giant's latest product launch. (more…) View the full article

Swedish architect and designer Mia Cullin has produced a range of benches and stools with adjustable seats modelled on traditional wooden peg furniture and piano stools. (more...) View the full article

Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. We need a new approach to sustainability says Phineas Harper. Read more View the full article

WilkinsonEyre and Grant Associates have unveiled a masterplan for a "major international leisure and attraction destination" on two islands off the coast of Singapore. Read more View the full article

South Korean designer Il Hoon Roh has created a chair by intertwining carbon fibre strings into a pattern designed to resemble the branches of trees (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These billboards by creative agency Ogilvy & Mather stretch outwards to double as street furniture (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

There’s a special staircase for dogs at this renovated house in Ho Chi Minh City by architecture studio 07Beach. (more…) View the full article

We've been taking a look at robots in construction this week, with a machine for 3D-printing metal structures in mid-air and robotic termites that can build architectural structures (pictured). Read on for more of this week's architecture and design news, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

This time last year designers were going to extreme lengths to devise and manufacture their projects, as an architecture graduate proposed hanging a skyscraper upside-down over a river (above) and another designer created stools using explosions (below). (more…) View the full article

Lithuanian design and architecture studio YCL has used furniture to add pops of colour to the interiors of an otherwise monochromatic apartment in Strasbourg, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Christoffersen Welling Architects has designed a house in the Danish countryside for a family and their pet falcons. Read more

This house in Argentina by local architects Arquinoma has a front door tall enough to let in a giraffe. (more…) View the full article

Product news: South Korean designer Soyoon Choi has created a wooden lounge chair with armrests inspired by a ribcage. (more...) View the full article

We continue our high-tech architecture series with this exclusive video interview in which British architect Nicholas Grimshaw describes the painstaking level of detail required of his landmark station project. Read more View the full article

Oregon firm Scott Edwards Architecture has created a home in Portland that includes soundproof rehearsal spaces for a family of musicians (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These new images by British photographer Edmund Sumner show the fluted concrete structure of the Museo Internacional del Barroco in Mexico, which is designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Read more View the full article

Woodford Sheppard Architecture has completed a minimal wooden church in a remote town in Labrador, Canada. Read more View the full article