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A staircase formed of wooden boxes and platforms, and supported by a black metal framework, rises up through this Sicilian residence that was recently renovated by Milanese architect Francesco Librizzi. (more…) View the full article

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed its International Towers project, a trio of harbourside skyscrapers that form the centrepiece of Sydney's new Barangaroo development. Read more View the full article

Bacteria from a boggy World War Two bomb crater generate kaleidoscopic light forms inside this telescope-like tube by Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen. Read more

Design firm Crosby Studios has created a playful series of purple furniture and home accessories, which is launching as part of the NYCxDesign festival this month. Read more View the full article

Ingo Maurer – the German designer whose playful, unexpected creations earned him the nickname "poet of light" – passed away yesterday at age 87. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Kientruc O has designed a kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City, which is made up of a stack of gabled brick blocks and features a curving cantilevered staircase leading to a roof garden. Read more View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior architectural designer at Slade Architecture, the firm behind Mattel's first 'unapologetically feminine' Barbie flagship store in Shanghai (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. 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

A trio of dome-shaped structures enclose the Taoyuan Sewage Treatment Project in northern Taiwan, designed by Habitech Architects to resemble mountains, complete with a waterfall and fish pond. 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

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

News: the architecture and design department at the V&A museum in London has announced a new "rapid response" strategy for collecting objects as soon as they become newsworthy, to reflect the changing way fast-moving global events influence society (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Water is the only bi-product expelled from the exhaust of UK manufacturer Riversimple's hydrogen-powered electric vehicle. (more…) View the full article

Perforated yellow cupboards and drawers resemble slices of Swiss cheese inside this apartment in São Paulo by Brazilian architects Zoom Urbanismo (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This house in south London, arranged around an old pear tree, was designed by British architect Jake Edgley as a home for himself and his family. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: entrepreneur Adrian Cheng has worked alongside Dutch architecture studio Concrete to create a new social space in Hong Kong tower Skypark that meets the needs of its youthful residents. Read more View the full article

This Corten steel footbridge arches across a new bypass in Spain to connect the small town of Sant Pere Sacarrera with a network of woodland pathways (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: work is about to start on a high-density, car-free “satellite city” for 80,000 people that will be built from scratch in a rural location close to Chengdu and later replicated in other parts of China. (more…) View the full article

Our August World Design Guide update features Brazilian Design Week in São Paulo (pictured) and CU (Creatives Unfold) in Bangkok, plus we've added five new events. (more...) View the full article

Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani is aiming to imbue culture, colour and personality into the "monochrome" city of El Alto, through buildings based on ancient local architecture and craft. Read more

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position working with French designer Philippe Starck (pictured) as a senior architect. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Eindhoven, Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi of Formafantasma show us their experiments with unusual materials including fish skin, cow bladders, animal blood and even lava. (more...) View the full article

Spanish firm YLAB Arquitectos has completed a faceted house on the outskirts of Barcelona that appears to have been stretched down a hill. (more...) View the full article

This spiritual refuge by Aidlin Darling Design at California's Stanford University features vertical cedar slats and thick walls made of soil excavated from the building site (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This captioned movie shows experimental musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto recording their latest album inside Philip Johnson's Glass House, which at the time was hosting an installation by artist Yayoi Kusama. Read more View the full article