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Berlin studio J. Mayer H. has returned to Volkswagen's Autostadt visitor centre, at the German car brand's factory in Wolfsburg, to create a landscape of three-dimensional structures for children to interact with (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British studio Jonathan Tuckey Design worked with a small team and a tight budget to build this timber-lined gatehouse for a west London primary school. (more...) View the full article

Visitors to a fashion film exhibition in Milan organised by arts website POSTmatter were able to manipulate imagery on giant displays using movement and gestures (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Landscape architecture firm Martha Schwartz Partners references Bedouin carpets and sand dunes in teardrop-shaped landscaping for a green retreat in the centre of an Abu Dhabi business district (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes Ikea's collection for hipsters (pictured) and Patrik Schumacher's Facebook rant, along with the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 194 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Opinion: a Le Corbusier design for a customisable house inspired by the devastation of Flanders during the First World War has haunted architecture ever since, says Justin McGuirk. (more...) View the full article

A wall of windows winches up and down to reveal the interior of this gallery renovation in Los Altos, California, by Seattle architect Tom Kundig (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will show a glass chair that refracts light around its edges for Italian brand Glas Italia in Milan next month. (more...) View the full article

News: musician Imogen Heap is to put an experimental electronic glove into production, creating a tool that will allow anyone to interact with their computer remotely via hand gestures (+ interview + movie). (more...) View the full article

This multi-storey car park for Copenhagen by local firm JAJA Architects will feature a plant-covered facade to hide the cars inside and grand external staircases leading to a landscaped park on the roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The bright yellow facade of this cafe in Seoul by local studio Nordic Bros. Design Community references the exterior of a Scandinavian house, complete with small square windows and a roof gable (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Interior designer Olena Yudina used a monochrome colour palette for the redesign of this apartment in Kiev, adding glazed brick walls to every room and a recurring bird motif to bring the owners good luck (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled images of a hotel that will wind across a rocky outcrop in Norway's Lofoten archipelago. (more...) View the full article

This coat rack by German designers Christine Herold and Katharina Ganz is designed to look like birds perched along a power line. (more...) View the full article

This house in northern Switzerland, by local architect Pascal Flammer, frames views of a vast rural landscape through round and rectangular windows, as well as through entire walls of glazing (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the list of exhibitors has been announced for this year's Ventura Lambrate exhibition to be held in Milan next month and a map of the show is now available to download. (more...) View the full article

Home rental website Airbnb has opened an office in Dublin with a reception area modelled on an Irish pub designed by local architects Heneghan Peng (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture student Tyler Short has developed an alternative to the traditional window shade - mechanical louvres that move in three dimensions to adapt to sunlight at different times of the day (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This wooden home in Helsinki by Finnish architect Tuomas Siitonen has a roof that dips in the middle to allow views across it and a kinked plan that wraps around a secluded garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cedar shingles typical to New England houses have gradually faded from warm beige to a soft greyish brown on the walls of this residence in Maine by Los Angeles office Bruce Norelius Studio (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the UK's Royal Mint has unveiled a revised £1 coin with 12 sides, which it hopes will make the currency harder to forge. (more...) View the full article

Dutch firm Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten covered the facade of this school in Rotterdam with black and white tiles arranged in patterns that reference typical Dutch interior decoration (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

More than 50 artists, designers and makers were enlisted to help design the eclectic interior of this hotel in Canberra, overseen by Fender Katsalidis Architects and Suppose Design Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Apple's reclusive head designer Jonathan Ive says the technological age in still in its infancy in his first in-depth interview in almost 20 years. (more...) View the full article

News: Google has unveiled an operating system designed specifically for wearable devices called Android Wear, plus details of the first smartwatches to incorporate the technology. (more...) View the full article