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Dutch firm Levs Architecten used unfired clay bricks from local mines to build the barrel-vaulted structure of this primary school on one of Mali's vast plains (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: inventor of the computer mouse Doug Engelbart has died at the age of 88. (more...) View the full article

Comments update: two design heavyweights, Marc Newson and Frank Gehry, dominated the debate on Dezeen this week for very different reasons. (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena used his Pritzker Prize ceremony to announce plans for combatting the global housing crisis this week, and the Dezeen team looked ahead to the world's biggest and most important design fair. (more…) View the full article

Valencia studio Masquespacio has created an upholstered chair with a back shaped like an eye and adorned with a tasseled fringe. Read more View the full article

A concert hall in Poland featuring concrete and crushed brickwork impressed readers this week, so we've visited the Dezeen archives to create a Pinterest board full of awe-inspiring performance venues. Others include a spiky building shortlisted for last year's Mies van der Rohe Award and Herzog & de Meuron's part-completed Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more concert halls in our archives View the full article

Design solutions for a wide range of social concerns, from rapid-recovery housing to drinking water access for migrants, are featured in a new show at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Read more View the full article

Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has transformed a 20th-century house in California's Napa Valley into this luxury hotel, which features bedrooms lined with dark wood, spacious bathrooms and a rustic restaurant. Read more

This wooden extension to a house in Paris by MIR architectes and Nicolas Hugoo has an angular roofline that frames a window at the front and wraps around a terrace at the rear (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Zaha Hadid became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal this week and used the illustrious occasion to defend her architecture, which she believes is "widely misunderstood" by the mainstream. (more…) View the full article

Curving walls made up of vertical strips of bleached wood form the inside of this dental practice in Dublin, which was transformed by Urban Agency to make visiting the dentist less daunting (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

It's Chinese New Year! To celebrate the beginning of the year of the monkey, we're revisiting some of the best new Chinese architecture on Dezeen, including the world's second tallest building, a sinuous opera house by MAD, and Kengo Kuma's folk-art galleries for the China Academy of Arts. See more new Chinese architecture » View the full article

Opinion: in his latest Opinion column, Sam Jacob argues that objects tell us more about ourselves than literature or imagery and sets out his manifesto for "a culture of design informed by archeology and anthropology". (more...) View the full article

News: a contemporary house inserted into the twelfth-century ruins of Astley Castle in Warwickshire by Witherford Watson Mann has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the last year. (more...) View the full article

Open-source furniture company Opendesk has created customised workspace fittings for self-build computer brand Kano (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A research team from ETH Zurich used 3D-printed moulds to make the skeletal framework for this all-concrete boat, which won first prize for design innovation at the Concrete Canoe Regatta. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Moying Huang has designed an ecologically friendly crematorium that would use liquid cremation to eliminate emissions from traditional incineration processes. Read more

Business news: design brand Tom Dixon has been sold by its Swedish owners to a British investment company, it has emerged. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: crystal brand Swarovski has launched its debut homeware range with products by designers including Raw Edges, Aldo Bakker, and the late Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a "vertical forest" in China, a pair of towers covered with trees and trailing plants in the centre of Nanjing. Read more View the full article

British fashion designer Anya Hindmarch has teamed up with design collective Numen/For Use to create a London Fashion Week installation that sees visitors clambering through woven, electric-blue tubes in a Soho car park. Read more

Budapest architects MARP have replaced the missing corner of a ruined Renaissance palace with a Corten steel lookout point. (more…) View the full article

The second of two movies in this series about Steven Holl's Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China, is a walk through the spaces of the mixed-use complex. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Take Time, a timepiece inspired by a traditional pocket watch by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur is now available for pre-order at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) View the full article

Product news: Polish designer Oskar Zieta will launch a collection of modular furniture made from Meccano-like perforated steel plates at MOST in Milan next month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article