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Greek designer Marios Karystios has revamped the schoolroom of a maths teacher, adding brightly coloured furnishings and vintage accessories that aim to make learning more fun (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The Lookout on the English seaside, designed by Hampshire County Council, has a slender mono-pitched roof and concrete fins that shelter it from the "beautiful and brutal" elements and rising sea levels. Read more

Architects Stickyline have created a range of paper helmets shaped like iconic buildings from the Hong Kong skyline. (more…) View the full article

Today is Norwegian Constitution Day – an annual national holiday in the Scandinavian country that marks the anniversary of the signing of its constitution in 1814. To celebrate the occasion, we're revisiting some of the most beautiful Norwegian house designs from our archive, including a remote cottage on the island of Vega (pictured) and a timber-clad home on a slope overlooking Oslo. See more Norwegian houses » View the full article

Australian architect Christopher Polly has converted a small Sydney bungalow into a two-storey house by adding extra rooms behind and underneath. (more...) View the full article

Garments that present different futures for fashion by designers including Viktor&Rolf, Hussein Chalayan and Iris van Herpen are on show at Stockholm's Liljevalchs Konsthall (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Danish brand Howe is relaunching a chair designed by Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen for his 1950s Munkegaard School. (more...) View the full article

The facades of this university building in the Spanish city of Getafe feature angled bays formed from a zigzagging arrangement of terracotta-hued ceramic panels (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders discusses how he overcame the challenges of using LED technology in his new lamp for Moooi and defends the high cost of design products in this movie Dezeen filmed in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio ISA has built a slender housing complex in Philadelphia by making the most of a plot of land about the width of a parking spot. Read more View the full article

Product news: the lids of these pans by New York designer Karim Rashid have large, brightly coloured hooks for handles. (more...) View the full article

Atelier Data has extended a 1980s home in the Algarve, Portugal, with whitewashed concrete structures and fenced-in courtyards (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Brazilian office Santini & Rocha Arquitetos has added a lightweight roof with a leaf-shaped structure to the Beira-Rio Stadium in the city of Porto Alegre ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on 12 June (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Piero Ambrogio Busnelli, founder of Italian furniture brand B&B Italia, has died aged 87. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm BIG has unveiled a proposal to overhaul a portion of New York City's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, known as the BQE, with a public park that covers a subterranean roadway. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with architects AL_A and designers Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Dominique Perrault Architecture, Vitsoe and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Product news: Danish design studio KiBiSi used a compound of stone and resin to produce these candle holders for Danish design brand Menu (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

OMA's completed Shenzhen Stock Exchange (pictured) and a horseshoe-shaped hotel by MAD lead this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 173 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has released new images of its design for a six-storey building that will house the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. (more…) View the full article

Italian architect Lorenzo Guzzini has completed a villa overlooking Lake Como in Italy, with a facade of grey moraine stone and an infinity pool. Read more View the full article

Australian architect Raffaello Rosselli has repurposed a corroding tin shed in Sydney to create a small office and studio apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has designed three residential skyscrapers that will add to the growing Los Angeles skyline. Read more View the full article

Stockholm-based artist Åsa Stenerhag has created a series of ceramic objects that she suggests might be alien body parts. Read more View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a 3D visualiser with architect David Chipperfield, who is reconfiguring the Royal Academy of Arts in London (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The top floor of this glazed housing complex in New York's Lower East Side, by architecture firm ODA, has a footprint twice the size of the ground level. Read more View the full article