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Italian architect Renzo Piano has finished a major new park, library and theatre complex in Athens, following one of the largest donations for a cultural building project in history (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Neri&Hu has released a short movie showing the faceted concrete Aranya Art Center, which recently opened in Qinhuangdao, China. Read more

Coffee roaster Ozone has opened a new space inside an east London warehouse, featuring plywood interiors by local studio Box 9. Read more View the full article

Actor Brad Pitt has lauded praise on Peter Zumthor as the Swiss architect's plans for Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles are approved. Read more

A smog-removal machine and a modular phone concept (pictured) are among the highlights from Dutch Design Week, which we've been covering for the past seven days. More from Eindhoven, plus this week's architecture and design news and our Dezeen Music Project featured track follow. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm HawkinsBrown has converted a pair of north London warehouses using timber dividers to create a temporary home for The Bartlett school of architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Eiffel Tower is reimagined as a bronze table lamp by Belgian artists Studio Job, who also present an upside-down Taj Mahal table at Design Miami this week. (more…) View the full article

The upper storey of this concrete house by Clavel Arquitectos cantilevers out from the lower storey by 10 metres, stretching towards mountain views in Spain's Murcia region (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our latest captioned movie explores a 195-gigapixel panoramic image of Shanghai, created by Chinese technology firm BigPixel. Read more

News: London firm Grimshaw has submitted plans for a 90-storey skyscraper in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. (more...) View the full article

With a terrace sheltered beneath its overhanging eaves, this building by Japanese architects Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima functions as an information centre for prefabricated show homes in Yokohama (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our new Pinterest board features highlights from this year's London Design Festival, including an installation of spinning paper windmills and the "world's lightest" wooden table. See our new London Design Festival 2013 Pinterest board » See more London Design Festival 2013 coverage » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior architect at MAD Architects in New York, the firm behind the £260 million design for the George Lucas Museum of narrative art in Chicago (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

No-To-Scale has imagined installing a superyacht connected to the 1MDB embezzling scandal as a provocative alternative Malaysian pavilion for the Dubai Expo 2020. Read more

This red concrete house outside Stuttgart by German firm Finckh Architekten has an oversized middle floor that cantilevers across the driveway (photos by Zooey Braun). (more…) View the full article

British designer Ross Lovegrove will unveil a concept car he has designed for French car manufacturer Renault in Milan next month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

New York design studio FormNation has proposed a redesign for two US income tax forms to make them clearer and easier to use (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Francis Bitonti worked with students to 3D-print this dress using commercially available MakerBot machines (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: the limitless prosperity once promised by urbanisation has failed to materialise, leaving rapidly growing inequality in its wake. It will take more than some clever technology to solve the problems with the world's biggest cities, says Reinier de Graaf. (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

Robots are the future of the construction industry, according to architects including Wolf D Prix and BIG's Kai-Uwe Bergmann. We've rounded up a selection of projects that suggest what the robot-made buildings of the future might look like (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Indian architect Anupama Kundoo has unveiled a prototype house that can be built in just six days using Lego-like blocks of a material called ferrocement (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Explore our new Pinterest board to see highlights from this year's World Architecture Festival and Inside, including the shortlisted projects and winners of the World Building of the Year and Interior of the Year awards. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

This week Herzog & de Meuron were in London for the opening of their Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Thomas Heatherwick opened his solo show at the V&A and BarberOsgerby’s Olympic torch has been making its way around the UK. We’ve got interviews with all three for you. (more…) View the full article

French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral in time for the Paris 2024 Olympics, but experts warn it is likely to take at least 10 years. Read more

Milan 2016: Italian furniture brand Sawaya & Moroni has unveiled a table designed by architect Zaha Hadid, who died unexpectedly last month. (more…) View the full article