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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

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

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

Our selection of the most promising architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at BIG and OMA. Read more View the full article

American firm Rapt Studio has designed the interiors for tech company Ancestry's new office, which features comfy lounge areas, communal dining tables and art installations that refer to genealogy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is offering five readers the chance to win a copy of the second issue of Fiera magazine – a print publication that presents new talent from international design fairs. (more…) View the full article

The age-defining rings of a tree stump provided the starting point for this small round house planned by design collective Penda for a wood-carving artist in Beijing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Breaking news: the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan has been postponed until 16 to 21 June in response to Italy's coronavirus outbreak. Read more View the full article

Researchers at Harvard University have devised a way to terraform Mars by placing sheets of silica aerogel on the planet's surface, which would warm it up to make it suitable for growing plants. Read more

Dezeen promotion: hotels on the shortlist for this year's AHEAD Americas awards include a retro retreat in Napa Valley, an eco-friendly luxury hotel in Brooklyn and boutique escape on Mexico's west coast. Read more View the full article

Colour company Pantone has revealed a zesty shade of green as its colour of the year for 2017. Read more View the full article

A Silicon Valley inventor has created a vehicle that looks like a skateboard balanced on a single wheel, and allows users to "surf on land" (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

South Korean designer Sun Lee has created a six-piece collection of clothing from traditional Korean paper which has been cut, torn and rolled by hand. Read more View the full article

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

Milan 2014: Designer Tom Dixon will present a range of furniture and metallic lighting that references British members' clubs in Milan next month. (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

Dezeen has teamed up with tokyobike to launch their new London store this week and to celebrate we’re give away a single-speed bike worth £520 (above). (more…) View the full article

Hawkins\Brown has built 21 modular workspaces on the structure of Here East, the former broadcast centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Read more View the full article

A chequerboard of opaque panels and windows surrounds this school canteen in western Germany by SpreierTrenner Architekten (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Belgian design studio Fou de Feu has created two collections of ceramics including vases shaped like soap bubbles. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: London design journalist and photographer Barbara Chandler has selected ten of her favourite photographs from this year’s London Design Festival, including portraits of Martino Gamper, Industrial Facility and Tord Boontje. (more…) View the full article

Heavy concrete walls anchor this family home in Queensland, Australia, to its beachside setting, while hiding it from a busy road nearby. Read more View the full article

This house for a surgeon in Chiba, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates contains courtyards with elevated wooden walkways and glass walls behind its thick concrete exterior (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Axiom Architects have proposed a tongue-in-cheek solution to the UK parliament's Brexit deadlock, which sees the Palace of Westminster transformed into a more open forum for debate. Read more

Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet used seaweed to create a furniture collection that highlights its possibilities as a material. (more…) View the full article