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Falling attendances at London's Design Museum contributed to a cash crisis earlier this year that left the institute with a deficit of £1.2 million, Dezeen has learned. Read more View the full article

Methamphetamine is being doled out to North Korean construction workers in a bid to speed up progress on a skyscraper in the capital city of Pyongyang, according to reports. (more…) View the full article

Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has designed a 30-storey tower to accommodate elderly housing in Quebec featuring interiors that are more akin to a boutique hotel. Read more

New York studio Snarkitecture has taken over a space at Hudson Yards to allow the public to explore its experiments, including the inaugural installation comprising a landscape of cork-clad columns. Read more

More than 50 leading academics working in the field of robotics have called for a boycott of a South Korean university, over concerns about its partnership with a defence company to develop autonomous arms. Read more View the full article

Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has brought her trademark colour spectrum to a fourth bank branch in Japan by surrounding the facade with brightly coloured sticks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Several windows splay from one end of this weathering steel church, designed by Vicens + Ramos as the centrepiece for a growing residential community near Madrid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Australian police have seized weapons created on a 3D printer while raiding a property in Gold Coast, Queensland. (more…) View the full article

Japanese firm Suppose Design Office has replaced the roof of a 35-year-old family house, creating a lofty new living room that opens to the garden at both ends (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Music: American animator Jeanette Lee borrowed the shapes of Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower to create a science-fiction urban landscape for Dewy Sinatra's In My Bubble music video. (more…) View the full article

Sitting on a steep cliff overlooking the Mastrafjord in Norway, Vacation House by Espen Surnevik has sliding doors that enable it to become a single continuous space. Read more

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto has created a collection of cabinets carved with geometric patterns for Italian brand Casamania. (more...) View the full article

The best new hotels in Asia mix contemporary design with attention to heritage, say the judges of this year's AHEAD Asia awards in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. Read more

American architect Paul Andersen has designed a series of commercial structures in Colorado with deceptive facades that rise higher than the actual buildings – a style that was popular in the Old West. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a designer at Pelli Clarke Pelli's New York studio, whose glass Salesforce Tower (pictured) is under construction in San Francisco. Browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Shigeru Ban's design for an art gallery opening this summer in Aspen, Colorado, has been demonstrated by a new architectural model, following news that the Japanese architect will receive this year's Pritzker Prize (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We hope you've all been good boys and girls for Santa this year! Hopefully he'll deliver the suggestions collected together in our updated Christmas list Pinterest board if you ask him nicely. Check out our Pinterest board full of presents and stocking fillers » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest» View the full article

A courtyard sits at the centre of this converted canal house apartment in the centre of Amsterdam by local firm Standard Studio. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Snøhetta has installed a smile-shaped aluminium bench at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to promote "a message of peace and conflict resolution." Read more

Barack and Michelle Obama have released a set of new renderings and a movie showing the cultural complex celebrating his presidency, which is to be built on Chicago's South Side. Read more View the full article

News: Danish studio BIG has been granted $335 million to upgrade Lower Manhattan's storm defences, as one of six winners in the Rebuild by Design initiative to revive parts of the USA struck by Hurricane Sandy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Graphic designer Cristina Vanko has been writing out all the SMS messages she sends by hand with a calligraphy pen. (more...) View the full article

Mozhao Architects has added a furniture shop and tea house to a technology park in Shenzhen, in a series of six concrete blocks. Read more

Dutch studio i29 have coated everything in grey at this pop-up furniture shop in Amsterdam. (more…) View the full article

German studio Fabi Architekten has stacked a black building on top of a white building to create this house in the Bavarian countryside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article